"Cathy's Clown" was The Everly Brothers' first single for Warner Bros., after they had recorded for Archie Bleyer's Cadence label for three years. It sold eight million copies worldwide, spending five weeks at number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart and one week on the R&B chart. It spent seven weeks at number one on the UK Singles Chart in May and June 1960. It was the Everly Brothers' biggest-selling single and their third and final U.S. number 1 hit. Billboard ranked it as the number 3 song of the year for 1960.
In 2004, the song was ranked 149th on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
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