Don and Phil's father, Ike, and mother, Margaret, were musicians and the brothers cut their performing teeth alongside their parents in a combo called the Everly Family. The band had a radio show on KMA and KFNF in Shenandoah, Iowa in the 1940s, while touring in the south and the midwest.
The Everlys' cousin, James Best, is an American actor, best known for his starring role as Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane in the CBS television series The Dukes of Hazzard.
Family friend Chet Atkins helped the Everly Brothers secure their first recording contract with Columbia Records. However their first single, "Keep A' Lovin' Me," flopped and the label dropped them.
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