The Paley Brothers – The Complete Recordings (Real Gone Music) Boy bands used to be a lot more hip and fun. Jonathan and Andy Paley were Everlys-style harmonizing brothers with experience (time in the Modern Lovers; Andy’s 1972 RCA LP with power-pop contenders the Sidewinders) and the right fans (Phil Spector, the Ramones) when they made 1978’s The Paley Brothers, a sleek hot […]
“I’m Gonna Kill You Someday”
“I’m Gonna Kill You Someday” was featured in “The Piano Has Been Thinking,” the special musical episode of the Thrilling Adventure Hour. The song was written by Andy Paley and Ben Acker and performed by the Andy Paley Orchestra with vocals by Marc Evan Jackson and J. K. Simmons. In this episode, the robot outlaw […]
Paley Brothers Recording Review by The Second Disc
If The Brill Building had survived as the fulcrum of pop songwriting activity through the 1970s, chances are that Andy and Jonathan Paley would have been found in a cubicle there, turning out one infectious pop nugget after another like “Come Out and Play” and “Here Comes My Baby.” Read the complete review from The Second Disc
Paley Brothers Recording Review by Allmusic.com
Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Allmusic.com All the ingredients for massive success were there but success never came, leaving the Paley Brothers as perhaps the greatest example of a band that, by nearly every measure, should’ve been stars. Read the full review on Allmusic.com

The Paley Brothers: The Complete Recordings available now on Real Gone Records
Scroll down to listen to tracks from the album. For power pop fans and aficionados of the mid-to-late-‘70s Boston and downtown New York scenes, news that at last a CD is coming out containing ALL of the sides the Paley Brothers released on the Sire label would be reason enough for rejoicing. But news that […]