Claudette

“CLAUDETTE”
Question: Your first big success in song writing was the Everly Brothers recording of “Claudette”. How did that happen?

Answer: “We were backstage. I met the boys and Ike Everly, their father. Everybody backstage was pitching songs. They would sit down and say ‘Sing four or five songs for the boys.’ I said, ‘I don’t think I’ll do that; I won’t impose on them.’ I started to leave the dressing room and they said, ‘Roy, do you have any songs?’ I said, ‘I’ve got one song’. So I sat down to sing that (Claudette) for them and they liked it very much and wrote the lyric down on top of a shoe box. Took it back to Nashville and recorded it and it was a co-number one with All I Have to Do is Dream.”