In Our Image

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In Our Image is the name of an album by The Everly Brothers, originally released in 1965. The album was produced by Dick Glasser.

In Our Image, like so many more of the 1960s LPs released by The Everly Brothers, wasn't presented as being concerned with new material - nine of the twelve songs were originally present as singles.

1965 had been a peculiar year, while they were having little impact back home, their success came in the United Kingdom, off the back of "The Price Of Love" (present on this album) and "Love Is Strange" (from Beat & Soul), the former of which ascended to number 2 on the UK Charts, despite stifling at #104 in America.

Included on the album also was the flipside for The Price Of Love, "It Only Costs A Dime", a self-written piece.

In December of that year, the final single "It's All Over" appeared, in an arrangement containing harpsichord and vocals. In a break from the usual routine, however, this song would feature Phil singing the principle vocal line and Don singing the harmony line a third lower. The song would later be covered by Cliff Richard.

Revisiting their classic style of singing, however, The Everly Brothers took a shot at the Sonny Curtis-written "I Used To Love You". Curtis, former member of The Crickets, had previously written another Everly Brothers hit single, "Walk Right Back".

For the first 45 release of 1966, they visited the songwriting partnership of Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, with a rendition of "Glitter And Gold". This arrangement, featuring fuzz guitar and harpsichord, was backed with another Brill Building number, the Howard Greenfield and Jack Keller-written "Lovey Kravezit".

With hardly enough time to gauge the success of this single, the pulsating "(You Got) The Power Of Love" (written by Delaney Bramlett and Joey Cooper), containing Motown influences aplenty, backed with "Leave My Girl Alone", was to hit the stores.

Filling out the album, "The Doll House Is Empty" (later to become Warner Brothers single 5689 in February 1966), the mainstream-orientated "(Why Am I) Chained To A Memory" and "June Is As Cold As December" from Marge Barton.

The diversity of the album showed The Everly Brothers by no means sticking to a single image, the wide variety and sources of the songs one step beyond what had been achieved on alternative albums.