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The Everly Brothers' Best

1959 compilation album by The Everly Brothers

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 31, 2025
Entity authorityQ7717285 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Everly Brothers' Best is the first compilation album by American singing duo the Everly Brothers, released in 1959 by their first record company, Cadence Records. The album contains both sides of their first six singles for the label in chronological order.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “The Everly Brothers' Best” as 1959 compilation album by The Everly Brothers. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Everly, Brothers' and Best.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1959—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1959-03. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Everly, Brothers' and Best providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “The Everly Brothers' Best”, the useful work is to connect “1959 compilation album by The Everly Brothers” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 31, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7717285. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1959.

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Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Everly Brothers' Best” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.