The Everly Brothers were an American country-influenced rock and roll duo, … Read Full Bio ↴The Everly Brothers were an American country-influenced rock and roll duo, known for steel-string acoustic guitar playing and close harmony singing. Consisting of Isaac Donald "Don" Everly (February 1, 1937 – August 21, 2021) and Phillip "Phil" Everly (January 19, 1939 – January 3, 2014), the duo was raised in a musical family, first appearing on radio singing along with their father Ike Everly and mother Margaret Everly as "The Everly Family" in the 1940s. When the brothers were still in high school, they gained the attention of prominent Nashville musicians like Chet Atkins, who began to promote them for national attention.

They began writing and recording their own music in 1956, and their first hit song came in 1957, with "Bye Bye Love", written by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant. The song hit No. 1 in the spring of 1957, and additional hits would follow through 1958, many of them written by the Bryants, including "Wake Up Little Susie", "All I Have to Do Is Dream", and "Problems". In 1960, they signed with the major label Warner Bros. Records and recorded "Cathy's Clown", written by the brothers themselves, which was their biggest selling single. The brothers enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve in 1961, and their output dropped off, though additional hit singles continued through 1962, with "That's Old Fashioned (That's the Way Love Should Be)" being their last top-10 hit.

Long-simmering disputes with Wesley Rose, the CEO of Acuff-Rose Music, which managed the group, a growing drug usage in the 1960s, as well as changing tastes in popular music, led to the group's decline in popularity in its native U.S., though the brothers continued to release hit singles in the U.K. and Canada, and had many highly successful tours throughout the 1960s. In the early 1970s, the brothers began releasing solo recordings, and in 1973 they officially broke up. Starting in 1983, the brothers got back together, and would continue to perform periodically until Phil's death in 2014. Don died seven years later.

The group was highly influential on the music of the generation that followed it. Many of the top acts of the 1960s were heavily influenced by the close-harmony singing and acoustic guitar playing of the Everly Brothers, including the Beatles, the Beach Boys, the Bee Gees, and Simon & Garfunkel. In 2015, Rolling Stone ranked the Everly Brothers No. 1 on its list of the 20 Greatest Duos of All Time. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of the inaugural class of 1986, and into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001. Don was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2019, earning the organization's first Iconic Riff Award for his distinctive rhythm guitar intro to the Everlys' massive 1957 hit "Wake Up Little Susie".

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You're Just What I Was Looking For Today
The Everly Brothers Lyrics

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Hey little woman
You're just what I was looking for today
I needed someone
And you're just what I was looking for today

Good things seem to happen to you
When you just happen to run across them in life
If you wait too long you know that

When you turn around you find you have lost them in life

The sun daylight will shine
But the vision in my eyes look plain and gray
Nice touch of moonlight
You're just what I was looking for today

We could drift away together
You and I could be alone
Nothing that is real applies
Beneath the nothing-matters skies
We could sit and fantasize
A world of our own

Good things seem to happen to you
When you just happen to run across them in life
If you wait too long you know that
When you turn around you find you have lost them in life

You're just what I was looking for today
You're just what I was looking for today

You're just what I was looking for today
You're just what I was looking for today

Overall Meaning

The Everly Brothers' song, "You're Just What I Was Looking for Today," speaks of chance encounters and the sometimes unpredictable nature of finding love. The singer finds himself in need of someone and by chance, happens upon a woman who fills that void. The lyrics suggest that good things happen when you least expect them, and sometimes waiting too long to pursue them can result in missing out entirely.

The first verse sets the scene, the singer suggests that he was in need of someone and that chance encounters can yield unexpected results. The second and third verses describe the moonlight and gray skies as visual metaphors for the singer's emotional state before the encounter with the woman. The final verse suggests that the couple could create a world of their own, where nothing else matters, a place of escape from the real world.

The song's lyrics were written by Terry Slater, a staff writer for Acuff-Rose Music in Nashville. Don Everly has said that it is his favorite song that he and his brother recorded, as he felt that the lyrics resonated with him personally. The song was released in 1968 and became a top ten hit for the brothers.

You're Just What I Was Looking For TodayThe Everly Brothers Lyrics

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You're Just What I Was Looking For Today
The Everly Brothers Lyrics