Everly Brothers - 1959 - No.5 WAVE

Problems/Love Of My Life/Take A Message To Mary/ Poor Jenny



"Problems" is a song released in 1958 by The Everly Brothers. The song spent 15 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at #2, "Problems" was kept out of #1 spot by To Know Him Is to Love Him by The Teddy Bears. Outside the US, "Problems" reached #5 on Canada's CHUM Hit Parade, #5 in the Netherlands #12 in Australia, and #6 on the UK's New Musical Express chart. B-side was "Love of My Life"

"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 #16, while reaching #8 on Canada's CHUM Hit Parade, #2 in Australia and #20 on the United Kingdom's New Musical Express chart.

In the lyrics of the song, a man is thrown in jail for committing a crime, and not wanting to experience suffering, he asks a friend of his to deliver a message to his sweetheart, Mary, and tell her that he has gone to see the world, has to cancel their wedding day, and encourages her to find someone new. The song ends with a lament from the imprisoned man that his "cell is cold", implying that because of his crime, he loses what he cherishes the most.