Australian singles chart:
Walk Right Back / Ebony Eyes entered the Kent charts on 18 February 1961 and peaked at #8. The single ranked #64 on the Top 100 of 1961.
Songwriters:
Walk Right Back – Sonny Curtis
Ebony Eyes – John D. Loudermilk
Producer:
Wesley Rose
Record label of Australian release:
Warner Bros
WALK RIGHT BACK
EBONY EYES
Wikipedia:
Sonny Curtis wrote Walk Right Back while undertaking basic military training. After writing the first verse, Curtis took it to Don and Phil Everly then returned to training. After writing the second verse, Curtis mailed it to the Everlys but it was too late, they had already recorded the song with one verse repeated.
Speaking to Jim Liddane of the International Songwriters Association, Sonny Curtis said: “The joke is that Perry Como and Andy Williams and a whole bunch of others including myself, recorded the song with the second verse included, but when Anne Murray did it in 1978, she just did the same as the Everlys, just the one verse – and that was a big hit all over again – so maybe the second verse was never meant to be!”
Ebony Eyes was written by John D. Loudermilk, telling a young man’s tragic story of losing his beloved fiancée in an airplane crash. The crash happened in dark, stormy weather conditions that remind him of his fiancée’s “ebony eyes”.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_Right_Back and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebony_Eyes_(John_D._Loudermilk_song)
Lyrics:
Walk Right Back
Walk Right Back – with second verse not recorded by The Everly Brothers (see notes above)
Ebony Eyes
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