The Everly Brothers Cathys Clown (1960) 4 K

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 bestselling 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 tapelooping 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