The Everly Brothers in Manchester!

Those of us old enough to remember Phil and Don, The Everly Brothers, are more appreciative of their music now than ever before. That's because there is very little out there than can be considered music in 2005. In the late 1950s and early to mid 60s, the junk you hear on the elaborate sound systems of today would have been trashed before the recording was complete.

Phil and Don Everly wrote and sang some of the most time honored standards music has ever offered. Even today, Elvis Costello and Emmylou Harris are singing, "Love Hurts." It has been a multi-generational song. The Everly Brothers, Nazareth, and now Costello and Harris.

I can remember riding in a 1956 Packard in 1958, and hearing, "All I have to do is dream" on the AM Radio in the car. There were no tape players back then. People didn't even have FM radios for cars at the time. The Packard did have an electric leveling system in it, and when the old folks were not looking we would jump up and down on the bumper to get the thing to give us a ride.

Anyway, when I heard on Serious Radio that the Everly Brothers were going to do a tour this fall I ask my loving wife Pat to look on the internet and see what the

closest place they would be where we could see them. She was working on her laptop in the living room, and I was listening to music and running my mouth about something. So, she went to Google and typed in the Everly Brothers. I waited anxiously to hear where they were going to be so we could get tickets.

I told Pat that our son Jason liked the Everly Brothers, and that he and his wife Freda would probably want to go. I was getting hyped up about actually seeing someone who knew what music should sound like, and the harmony of the Everly Brothers has never been outdone.

Pat said, "They're going to be in Glasgow, Manchester, and London."

I perked up then and said, "The Everly Brothers are going to be in Manchester?" ( I could see myself grooving to 'Till I Kissed You')

She said, "Yeah, but it's in the UK."

My loving wife had tricked me into thinking they were going to be in Glasgow, Ky., London, Kentucky, and Manchester, Kentucky when they are going to be in Glasgow, Scotland, London, England, and Manchester, England. That was so low that I don't even know how she could have been so heartless. She thought it was funny. Ha, ha, ha.