Devoted to You (song)

The best-known version was recorded by The Everly Brothers,^[1] and released by Cadence Records as catalog number 1350. This version was issued as the flip side of "Bird Dog," but reached the charts on its own, at No. 10 on the United States pop charts, No. 25 in Australia, and No. 1 in Canada. In addition, the song reached No. 7 on the United States country music chart and No. 2 on the rhythm and blues chart.

Charts

U.S. Chart (1958)	Peak position
scope="row"	US Billboard Hot 100^[2]	10
Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[3]	7
Rhythm & Blues Records (Billboard)^[3]	2

Carly Simon and James Taylor version

The song was also recorded by American singer-songwriters Carly Simon and James Taylor, appearing on Simon's 1978 album, Boys in the Trees. Following the smash success of the album's first single "You Belong to Me", Devoted to You was released as the second single, and it also became a Top 40 hit. Charting on both the Billboard Pop singles chart and Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, as well as the Hot Country Songs chart. The song also charted in Canada, peaking at #50.^[4]

Chart (1978)^[5]	Peak Position
Canada (RPM Charts)	9
US Billboard Pop Singles (Hot 100)	13
US Billboard Adult Contemporary	3
US Billboard Country Songs	33

Cover versions

The Beach Boys' version was a part of their 1965 album Beach Boys' Party! and was sung by Mike Love and Brian Wilson. This version was later included as the b-side to the Mike Love and Brian Wilson single, "Gettin' Hungry". A version without the Party! sound effects can be found on their Hawthorne, CA compilation.

Brian Hyland covered the song for his 1964 album Here's to Our Love. Sandy Posey recorded a compelling cover on her Sweet Dreams album, in which she emulated the Everly Brothers' harmony using multi-track recording. The song was also covered by The Seekers on their 1993 live album 25 Year Reunion Celebration, and by Linda Ronstadt and Valerie Carter on Ronstadt's 1996 album Dedicated to the One I Love.

Kathleen Robertson sang the song in an episode of Beverly Hills, 90210.

References

↑ Everly Brothers interviewed on the Pop Chronicles (1969)
↑ "The Everly Brothers – Chart history" Billboard Hot 100 for The Everly Brothers. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
1 2 The Everly Brothers Awards History at AllMusic. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
↑ "CAN Charts > Carly Simon". RPM. Retrieved 2015-01-11.
↑ "Boys in the Trees > Charts & Awards > Billboard Singles". Allmusic. Retrieved 2009-01-18.

External links

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

The Everly Brothers

Studio albums	The Everly Brothers Songs Our Daddy Taught Us It's Everly Time A Date with the Everly Brothers Both Sides of an Evening Instant Party! Christmas with the Everly Brothers The Everly Brothers Sing Great Country Hits Gone Gone Gone Rock'n Soul Beat & Soul In Our Image Two Yanks in England The Hit Sound of the Everly Brothers The Everly Brothers Sing Roots Stories We Could Tell Pass the Chicken & Listen EB 84 Born Yesterday Some Hearts

Live albums	Everly Brothers Show

Compilation albums	The Best of The Everly Brothers Greatest Hits Vol. III The New Album All They Had to Do Was Dream Heartaches and Harmonies Stories We Could Tell:The RCA Years Too Good to Be True Give Me a Future

Singles	"Bye Bye Love" "Wake Up Little Susie" "This Little Girl of Mine" "Should We Tell Him" "All I Have to Do Is Dream" "Bird Dog" "Devoted to You" "Problems" "Take a Message to Mary" "Poor Jenny" "(Till) I Kissed You" "Let It Be Me" "Cathy's Clown" "When Will I Be Loved" "So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)" "Like Strangers" "Be-Bop-A-Lula" "Lucille" "Walk Right Back" "Ebony Eyes" "Temptation" "Don't Blame Me" "Crying in the Rain" "That's Old Fashioned (That's the Way Love Should Be)" "Don't Ask Me to Be Friends" "Love Her" "Ain't That Lovin' You, Baby" "That'll Be the Day" "The Price of Love" "Love Is Strange" "(You Got) The Power of Love" "Somebody Help Me" "Bowling Green" "Love of the Common People" "Carolina in My Mind" "Not Fade Away" "The Air That I Breathe" (Phil Everly solo) "Brother Jukebox" (Don Everly solo) "Dare to Dream Again" (Phil Everly solo) "On the Wings of a Nightingale" "Don't Worry Baby" "Ballad of a Teenage Queen"

Related topics	Discography List of songs Gibson Everly Brothers Flattop Everly Music Company Venetia Stevenson Edan Everly James Best

Book Category

The Beach Boys singles discography

1960s

1961	"Surfin'" / "Luau"

1962	"Surfin' Safari" / "409" "Ten Little Indians" / "County Fair"

1963	"Surfin' U.S.A." / "Shut Down" "Surfer Girl" / "Little Deuce Coupe" "Be True to Your School" / "In My Room" "Little Saint Nick" / "The Lord's Prayer"

1964	"Fun, Fun, Fun" / "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" "I Get Around" / "Don't Worry Baby" "When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)" / "She Knows Me Too Well" "Dance, Dance, Dance" / "The Warmth of the Sun" "The Man with All the Toys" / "Blue Christmas"

1965	"Do You Want to Dance" / "Please Let Me Wonder" "Help Me, Rhonda" / "Kiss Me, Baby" "California Girls"/ "Let Him Run Wild" "The Little Girl I Once Knew" / "There's No Other (Like My Baby)" "Barbara Ann" / "Girl Don't Tell Me"

1966	"Sloop John B" / "You're So Good to Me" "Wouldn't It Be Nice" / "God Only Knows" "Good Vibrations" / "Let's Go Away for Awhile"

1967	"Then I Kissed Her" / "Mountain of Love" "Heroes and Villains" / "You're Welcome" "Wild Honey" / "Wind Chimes" "Darlin'" / "Here Today"

1968	"Friends" / "Little Bird" "Do It Again" / "Wake the World" "Bluebirds over the Mountain" / "Never Learn Not to Love"

1969	"I Can Hear Music" / "All I Want to Do" "Break Away" / "Celebrate the News"

1970s

1970	"Add Some Music to Your Day" / "Susie Cincinnati" "Cottonfields" / "The Nearest Faraway Place" "Slip On Through" / "This Whole World" "Tears in the Morning" / "It's About Time"

1971	"Cool, Cool Water" / "Forever" "Wouldn't It Be Nice" (live) / "The Times They Are a-Changin'" (by Merry Clayton) "Long Promised Road" / "Deirdre" "Long Promised Road" / "'Til I Die" "Surf's Up" / "Don't Go Near the Water"

1972	"You Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone" / "Cuddle Up" "Marcella" / "Hold On Dear Brother"

1973	"Sail On, Sailor" / "Only with You" "California Saga: California" / "Funky Pretty"

1974	"Surfin' U.S.A." / "The Warmth of the Sun" "Child of Winter (Christmas Song)" / "Susie Cincinnati"

1975	"Sail On, Sailor" / "Only with You"

1976	"Rock and Roll Music" / "T M Song" "It's O.K." / "Had to Phone Ya" "Everyone's in Love with You" / "Susie Cincinnati"

1977	"Honkin' Down the Highway" / "Solar System"

1978	"Peggy Sue" / "Hey Little Tomboy"

1979	"Here Comes the Night" / "Baby Blue" "Good Timin'" / "Love Surrounds Me" "Lady Lynda" / "Full Sail" "It's a Beautiful Day" / "Sumahama"

1980s

1980	"Goin' On" / "Endless Harmony" "Livin' with a Heartache" / "Santa Ana Winds"

1981	"The Beach Boys Medley" / "God Only Knows" "Come Go with Me" / "Don't Go Near the Water"

1985	"Getcha Back" / "Male Ego" "It's Gettin' Late" / "It's O.K." "She Believes in Love Again" / "It's Just a Matter of Time"

1986	"Rock 'n' Roll to the Rescue" / "Good Vibrations" (live) "California Dreamin'" / "Lady Liberty"

1987	"Happy Endings" (with Little Richard) / "California Girls" (live)

1988	"Kokomo" / "Tutti Frutti" (Little Richard)

1989	"Still Cruisin'" / "Kokomo"

1990s

1990	"Somewhere Near Japan" / "Kokomo" "Problem Child" / "Problem Child (Instrumental)"

1992	"Hot Fun in the Summertime" / "Summer of Love"

1996	"I Just Wasn't Made for These Times" / "Wouldn't It Be Nice" / "Here Today"

2010s

2011	"Good Vibrations" / "Heroes and Villains" "Don't Fight the Sea" / "Friends" "Cabinessence" / "Wonderful"

2012	"That's Why God Made the Radio" / "That's Why God Made the Radio" (instrumental) "Isn't It Time" / Live in Chicago

Book
Category

Beach Boys' Party!

Songs

Side one	"Hully Gully" "I Should Have Known Better" "Tell Me Why" "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow" "Mountain of Love" "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" "Devoted to You"

Side two	"Alley Oop" "There's No Other (Like My Baby)" "Medley: "I Get Around" / "Little Deuce Coupe" "The Times They Are a-Changin'" "Barbara Ann"

Outtakes

Carly Simon

Discography

Studio albums	Carly Simon Anticipation No Secrets Hotcakes Playing Possum Another Passenger Boys in the Trees Spy Come Upstairs Torch Hello Big Man Spoiled Girl Coming Around Again My Romance Have You Seen Me Lately This Is My Life Romulus Hunt: A Family Opera Letters Never Sent Film Noir The Bedroom Tapes Moonlight Serenade Into White This Kind of Love Never Been Gone

Compilations	The Best of Carly Simon Greatest Hits Live Clouds in My Coffee The Very Best of Carly Simon: Nobody Does It Better Christmas Is Almost Here Anthology Christmas Is Almost Here Again Reflections: Carly Simon's Greatest Hits Carly Simon Collector's Edition Playlist: The Very Best of Carly Simon Songs From The Trees (A Musical Memoir Collection)

Soundtracks	Working Girl This Is My Life Piglet's Big Movie Pooh's Heffalump Movie

Concerts	Live from Martha's Vineyard Carly in Concert – My Romance Live at Grand Central A Moonlight Serenade on the Queen Mary 2

Singles	"That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be" "Anticipation" "Legend in Your Own Time" "You're So Vain" "The Right Thing to Do" "Mockingbird" "Haven't Got Time for the Pain" "Attitude Dancing" "Waterfall" "It Keeps You Runnin'" "Nobody Does It Better" "You Belong to Me" "Devoted to You" "Vengeance" "Jesse" "Why" "Kissing with Confidence" "You Know What to Do" "Tired of Being Blonde" "My New Boyfriend" "Coming Around Again" "Give Me All Night" "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of" "All I Want Is You" "Let the River Run" "Better Not Tell Her" "Love of My Life" "Son of a Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You)"

Other songs	"We Have No Secrets" "Night Owl" "You Can Close Your Eyes"

The Simon Sisters	Meet The Simon Sisters Cuddlebug The Simon Sisters Sing the Lobster Quadrille and Other Songs for Children Lucy & Carly – The Simon Sisters Sing for Children Winkin', Blinkin' and Nod: The Kapp Recordings Carly & Lucy Simon Sing Songs For Children

Book:Carly Simon

James Taylor

Studio albums	James Taylor Sweet Baby James Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon One Man Dog Walking Man Gorilla In the Pocket JT Flag Dad Loves His Work That's Why I'm Here Never Die Young New Moon Shine Hourglass October Road Covers Before This World

Live albums	Live/Best Live One Man Band Amchitka Live at the Troubadour

Holiday albums	James Taylor: A Christmas Album James Taylor at Christmas

Compilation albums	Greatest Hits Classic Songs Greatest Hits Volume 2 The Best of James Taylor

Video albums	Live at the Beacon Theatre

Extended plays	Other Covers

Singles	"Carolina in My Mind" "Knocking 'Round the Zoo" "Sweet Baby James" "Fire and Rain" "Country Road" "You've Got a Friend" "Long Ago and Far Away" "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight" "One Man Parade" "Hymn" "Mockingbird (with Carly Simon) "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)" "Mexico" "Shower the People" "Woman's Gotta Have It" "Handy Man" "Your Smiling Face" "Honey Don't Leave L.A." "Devoted to You" (with Carly Simon) "Up on the Roof" "Her Town Too" "Hard Times "Everyday" "It's Growing"

Other songs	"Night Owl "Something in the Way She Moves" "Sunny Skies" "Steamroller Blues" "You Can Close Your Eyes" "Highway Song" "Bartender's Blues" "Secret O' Life" "Millworker" "Summer's Here"

Related articles	Discography James Taylor and the Original Flying Machine Working Vote for Change Tour Troubadour Reunion Tour Carly Simon Ben Taylor Sally Taylor Kate Taylor Livingston Taylor Alex Taylor Isaac M. Taylor Two-Lane Blacktop

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