DON’T IT MAKE MY BROWN EYES BLUE
“Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue” is a song written by Richard Leigh, and recorded by American country music artist Crystal Gayle. It was released in 1977 as the first single from Gayle’s album We Must Believe in Magic. Despite the title, Gayle herself has blue eyes. (More from Wikipedia)
In the late 1960’s, I attended a traveling show of several country artists put together by Jim Ed Brown, if memory serves. It included one of the earliest appearances by Crystal Gayle (Loretta Lynn’s younger sister) long before her hit song “Don’t it Make My Brown Eyes Blue”, and Roger Miller might have been the headliner; but what I really remember was the electrifying appearance by Jerry Lee Lewis, still one of the most exciting concerts I have ever seen – and the rest of the audience seemed to concur.
(May 2011)
