Sunday, August 3, 1969 closed the Everly Brothers' three-night stand at the Fillmore West, with the Sons of Champlin beneath them on BG-184.

Three nights in the loudest room in San Francisco for two men and a pair of acoustic guitars, singing the close-harmony singing they had worked out as teenagers in Kentucky and on their father's radio show. "Bye Bye Love," "Wake Up Little Susie," "All I Have to Do Is Dream" were a decade behind them and their singles-chart career was over; what remained was an influence so thoroughly absorbed that the audience could not hear it as influence. The Beatles took their harmony directly. So did the Byrds, and Simon and Garfunkel, and half the bands on the Fillmore's own calendar.

Graham booked them the way he booked Chuck Berry, Count Basie and Bukka White: as the source, in front of an audience that had received it secondhand. It is the most consistent thing about his programming and the least discussed.

Don and Phil had roughly six years left as a working duo before the onstage collapse that ended the partnership for a decade. The Sons of Champlin, closing under them, were the Marin County band with horns who appear repeatedly through these pages and who outlasted almost everyone.