Take a Message to Mary

"Take a Message to Mary"
Single by The Everly Brothers
B-side "Poor Jenny"
Released 1959
Format Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM
Recorded March 2, 1959
Genre Pop
Length 2:24
Label Cadence
Songwriter(s) Felice Bryant & Boudleaux Bryant[1]
The Everly Brothers singles chronology
"Problems"
(1958)		 "Take a Message to Mary"
(1959)		 "(Till) I Kissed You"
(1959)

"Problems"
(1958)		 "Take a Message to Mary"
(1959)		 "(Till) I Kissed You"
(1959)

"Take a Message to Mary" is a song released in 1959 by The Everly Brothers. The song spent 13 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at No. 16,[2] while reaching No. 8 on Canada's CHUM Hit Parade,[3] and No. 20 on the United Kingdom's New Musical Express chart.[1]

Chart performance

Chart (1959) Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100 16
Canada - CHUM Hit Parade 8
UK - New Musical Express 20

Cover versions

Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds released a version of the song on their 1980 EP, Nick Lowe & Dave Edmunds Sing The Everly Brothers.[4]

Bob Dylan released a version of the song in 1970 on his album Self Portrait

References

  1. 1 2 Take a Message to Mary - By: The Everly Brothers, MusicVF.com. Accessed August 9, 2015
  2. ↑ The Everly Brothers - Chart History - The Hot 100, Billboard.com. Accessed August 9, 2015
  3. ↑ "CHUM Hit Parade Chart", CHUM, Week of May 11, 1959
  4. ↑ "Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe & Dave Edmunds Sing The Everly Brothers". Retrieved December 3, 2016.


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