The Barker Brothers

Thanks to The Everly Brothers, sibling duos were the rage in early 1958, when producers Lee Hazlewood and Lester Sill found Monty and Fredy Barker, known around Los Angeles as The Barker Brothers. Lee and Lester hadn’t hit their stride in Phoenix with Duane Eddy quite yet, and they produced the Barkers in L.A. for the Bihari brothers’ new Kent label. Monty and Fredy had made the rounds of local music shows, notably ‘Town Hall Party,’ since turning up locally in late ’57.