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  1. It took me a long time to find the CD of the Best of Joe & Eddie but it’s was worth the effort. I first heard them in the 1960s, and I have a few of the 45s, and they were so memorable that I went out of my way to track down a CD version.

    I highly recommend them!

  2. One of my long time favorites as well. One of the best duets ever, too bad they didn’t get better known. There’s also a YouTube clip of them singing, “That’s the Way It’s Going to Be” that I like a lot.

  3. I don’t remember them at all. I don’t know how I missed them. They do have great voices. And they wear ties. Talk about the good old days.

  4. How lovely – I had never heard of them before this! (And me the former AFRTS DJ – I thought I had heard EVERYONE!) They do sing in close-harmony like the Everly Brothers. Reminds me a bit o the early Sam Cook, also.
    Yes – neckties. Good old days and all that. I rather miss this, in the era of openly salacious lyrics and Miley Cyrus twerking all over stage. Not the color bar, just the general gentility.
    You kids – get (insert some serious military profanity here) off my lawn!

  5. Expat and Sgt. Mom, according to Wiki, Joe & Eddie peaked in 1964, and Joe was killed in an auto accident in 1966. That may explain why you hadn’t heard of them.

    I became aware of them in ’64-’65.

  6. I ordered a white tie on line, which came today, to wear on Easter, because white is the liturgical color for Easter and Christmas. However, Sgt. Mom, this is Texas, and no ties after Pentecost. (Red, of course, thank you for asking)

  7. Complicated arrangement. Sounded as if there were more than two voices.
    Have to look them up.
    Check out the audience in youtube Brothers Four–the originals–at UCLA.
    May as well be on a different planet.

  8. I don’t recall ever hearing them, either, which probably means they didn’t get radio play in my area (and not because they were black–we heard all the black rock-and-roll greats). Remarkable vocals.

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