Tune Daddy

Ike Everly set the direction and the boys redirected the path toward fame. This week's objet d'eBay is older brother Don and younger brother Phil's homage to dad.

Father Ike chose to leave the coal mining life behind and move his family to Chicago, playing in country western and honky tonk nightclubs with his brothers. In 1945, with a vision that radio would be the family's future he joined radio station KMA in Shenandoah, Iowa, and began having his sons, ages 8 and 6, on his radio show.

At the young ages of 8 and 6, Don and Phil began to perform on their parents' live radio show. By his example, Ike instilled in his two sons his own love for music. He encouraged them to sing and he taught them to play guitar. Soon enough, they were the Everly Brothers and singing harmonic ballads that echo in hearts today, what seems like hundreds of years after they were first released.

** Always lullaby your babies. Who knows where it will go. **