Track Listing

1. Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue
2. If You Ever Change Your Mind
3. You and I - Crystal Gayle, , Eddie Rabbitt
4. 'Til I Gain Control Again
5. Our Love Is on the Fault Line
6. Deeper in the Fire
7. Baby, What About You
8. Everything I Own
9. Sound of Goodbye
10. I Don't Wanna Lose Your Love
11. Turning Away
12. Me Against the Night
13. Nobody Wants to Be Alone
14. Long and Lasting Love
15. Makin' up for Lost Time - Crystal Gayle, Gary Morris
16. Cry
17. Straight to the Heart
18. Another World - Crystal Gayle,
19. Where Dear Friends Never Part

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37375 in Music
• Brand: GAYLE,CRYSTAL
• Released on: 2002-03-19
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

Album Description
Born Brenda Gail Webb in Paintsville, Kentucky, and raised in Wabash, Indiana, Crystal Gayle followed in older sister Loretta Lynn's footsteps, but while Loretta was all country, Crystal leaned toward the pop end of the country spectrum. In 1977 she scored her biggest hit with "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue." In the following decade she recorded for United Artists, Columbia, Elektra, and Warner Bros., releasing nine Top-10 country albums, four of them gold and two platinum. She took the Country Music Association's award for Female Vocalist of the Year in both 1977 and '78, and became the first country artist to visit China when she appeared in a Bob Hope TV special in 1979. The Best of Crystal Gayle, her first career-spanning hits collection, packs a single disc with 20 hits released between 1976 and 1986. Features many #1 singles, including "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue."

Customer Reviews

Crystal Clear
Crystal Gayle's sophisticated pop stylings were the antithesis of big sister Loretta Lynn's rural melodramas. While not as celebrated as her legendary sibling, Gayle impressively became a fixture on the country charts for 20 years.

This nineteen track Best Of leads off with a single sampling of Gayle's stints at United Artists (her signature hit "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue") and Columbia (the poignant "If You Ever Change Your Mind"). After that, the set concentrates on her tenure at Warner Brothers, capturing all of Gayle's top ten hits there as well as a few choice album cuts. It easily surpasses Warner Brothers' 1986 ten-track Greatest Hits, anthologizing for the first time her collaborations with Eddie Rabbitt ("You And I") and Gary Morris ("Making Up For Lost Time," "Another World").

Like the Judds in their heyday, Gayle's best Warner Brothers recordings concentrate on love in its various stages, be it rock solid ("A Love And Lasting Love"), fragile ("Our Love Is On The Faultline"), lost ("The Sound Of Goodbye"), or recovery ("Til I Gain Control Again"). While her '70s United Artists' material is more thematically varied and held in higher esteem, these '80s Warner Brothers' efforts showcase Gayle at her most vocally confident. Kudos to Rhino for attractively repackaging this neglected phase of her recording career.

Crystal and memories
This cd I recently purchased but listened to these songs from the album many years ago. Thanks Crystal for the memories. My favorites: The Sound Of Goodbye, Baby What About you, Another World and I Dont Wanna Lose Your Love . Fond memories!

Great 80s collection of hits
It's a shame that most people remember Crystal for two things: Don't it Make My Brown Eyes Blue and her hair. There is much more to this lady and her career than just those two things.

This collection brings together the bulk of her 80s hits on Warner Brothers. A few of the songs on this cd had yet appeared on a Crystal hits package, so it's nice to have them here.

Standouts include I Don't Wanna Lose Your Love, Our Love is on the Fault Line, Me Against the Night, Making Up for Lost Time, Sound of Goodbye, and the incredible Cry.

I wish all of her albums would be digitally remastered on cd, but at least we have a great sampling of her great 80s hits. True Love, Cage the Songbird, and Straight to the Heart were three of my favorite Crystal albums and are well-represented here.