Songs Our Daddy Taught Us

Songs Our Daddy Taught Us (1958) is the second studio album by American singing duo the Everly Brothers. The album is based on a selection of songs that the brothers learned as boys from their father, Ike Everly. Originally released on Cadence Records, the album has been re-released on LP and CD many times, primarily by Rhino and EMI.

Songs Our Daddy Taught Us
Studio album by the Everly Brothers
Released	December 1958
Recorded	August 13–17, 1958
Length	40:22
Label	Cadence
Producer	Archie Bleyer
The Everly Brothers chronology
The Everly Brothers (1958) Songs Our Daddy Taught Us (1958) The Best of the Everly Brothers (1959)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[3]

Music journalist Richie Unterberger notes that the album of traditional music, released at the peak of the duo's commercial success as a rock and roll act, was unexpected and "ahead of its time".^[1] The New Rolling Stone Album Guide, which awarded the album 4 out of 5 stars, noted that not even Elvis Presley "had the nerve to do an album as rootsy" as this one.^[4]

Track listing

1. "Roving Gambler" (Terry Gilkyson) – 3:41
2. "Down in the Willow Garden" (Charlie Monroe, traditional) – 3:04
3. "Long Time Gone" (Frank Hartford, Tex Ritter, traditional) – 2:26
4. "Lightning Express" (attributed to Bradley Kincaid; actually written as "Please, Mr. Conductor, Don't Put Me Off the Train" by J. Fred Helf and E. P. Moran^[5]) – 4:53
5. "That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine" (Gene Autry, Jimmy Long) – 3:09
6. "Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet?" (traditional) – 2:41
7. "Barbara Allen" (traditional) – 4:41
8. "Oh So Many Years" (Frankie Bailes) – 2:37
9. "I'm Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail" (Karl Davis, Harty Taylor) – 3:38
10. "Rockin' Alone (In an Old Rockin' Chair)" (Bob Miller) – 3:01
11. "Kentucky" (Karl Davis, credited to Henry Prichard) – 3:10
12. "Put My Little Shoes Away" (Samuel N. Mitchell, Charles E. Pratt) – 3:21

Personnel

• Don Everly – guitar, vocals
• Phil Everly – guitar, vocals
• Floyd Chance – upright bass

Legacy

Main article: Foreverly

In 2013, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong and jazz singer Norah Jones recorded a remake of the album, titled Foreverly. It was released on November 25, 2013.

References

1. Unterberger, Richie. "Songs Our Daddy Taught Us > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved October 2, 2015.
2. Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
3. The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. pp. 233–234.
4. Brackett, Nathan. (2004) The New Rolling Stone Album Guide, 4th ed, Fireside. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8. p 287.
5. Please Mr. Conductor Don't Put Me Off. Descriptive Song & Chorus. from the Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection