Obituary

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Hal Kalin

Singer launched as half an answer to Elvis

Alan Clayson
Tuesday September 27, 2005
The Guardian

With the knowledge that, in 1956, Elvis Presley accounted for 60% of RCA's net takings, every other record company in north America put forward a challenger. As Acuff-Rose did with the Everly Brothers, Decca promoted the Kalin Twins - Hal, who has died in a road accident aged 71, and Herbie, who survives him - as two Presleys for the price of one. With open-necked shirts, striped blazers and gravity-defying quiffs, they seemed to vindicate the company's strategy in 1958 with the million-selling When. After the follow-up, Forget Me Not, reached the US top 20, that, as far as the record-buying public was concerned, was that for the duo online florists
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