Crystal Gayle- We Must Believe in Magic

IMG_4934My parents had this 8-track. This is Crystal Gayle’s biggest album. Half-price books had four copies. Some people might view that as negative on the album but in reality, that just means a lot of people bought this record. I paid $3.00’s for it.

I did not know that Crystal Gayle was Loretta Lynn’s youngest sister. Maybe everybody knew that. Well, I did not. I did not have the Internet as a child. I do know that she is very beautiful and has a lovely voice. She still is. As stated before, this was her biggest album and had her biggest hit, “ Don’t it make my Brown Eyes Blue”. It also produced one of the creepiest Muppet’s segments for what is already a strange song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXnKf4XrRxY

This was a Crossover record. This also came out in 1977, which was a pretty radical year for music. There is very little that is truly country on this album. There are moments, but overall, it is more Jazz-based than not. But there are country elements and there are a lot of good songs including the Title track, “Brown Eyes” and “River Road”. And at the end of the day, it was hugely successful.IMG_4933

I was tempted to be lazy and include one of these hits as a sample, but decided to go for a different track that is slightly more country flavored, despite being a Cole Porter standard- It’s All Right With Me.

I had to give this a Top Rating because it is a good album. I knew what I was getting into when I bought it.

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