The Everly Brothers - Cathy’s Clown (1960) 4K

The Everly Brothers performing “Cathy’s Clown“, released originally in April 1960. It reached #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100, #1 on the UK Official Singles Chart, and #1 on the US Billboard Hot R&B Singles. “Cathy’s Clown“ was the best-selling single of the duo’s career, but it wasn’t their greatest. It’s a perfectly solid pop song about romantic bitterness, but it doesn’t have the floaty, otherworldly quality that set their real classics apart. The Everlys, at their best, sounded completely bewildered by the world around them. The “Cathy’s Clown“ hook — “don’t want your looooove anymore“ — doesn’t have that. It sounds shrill and mean. But it still works. Part of it is the strange, gallumphing arrangement; producer Wesley Rose used tape-looping to make it sound like there were two drummers playing on the song. Part of it is the way the Everly’s interweave their voices, one putting in tiny embellishm