After "Brown Eyes Blue" hit, the world became Crystal-Gayle-aware. “I’ll Get over You,” was her first number one single. Her debut single, “I’ve Cried the Blue Right out of My Eyes,” was written by sister Loretta Lynn and reached the Top 25 on the national country music charts. Still in school, she signed her first recording contact. She was exposed to many styles of music growing up as the youngest of eight children. Gayle's latest album, “You Don’t Know Me," came out in 2019 and offers country classics that were special to her in her youth. A cherished memory is earning the Waterford Crystal “Celebration of Light” award, for charity work. Some of her favorite moments have come from her Grammy, her performance on Nashville, Tennessee's Ryman Auditorium stage and co-hosting telethons for the Arthritis Foundation. In fact, she was the first female country artist to reach platinum album sales with "We Must Believe in Magic." Three of Gayle's albums are platinum, and five are gold in the U.S. BMI Film & TV Awards are presented each year by Broadcast Music, Inc., for composers, songwriters and music publishers. “Talking in Your Sleep” had been chosen as BMI’s most played country song in 1978. In October 1999, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers named “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue," composed by Richard Leigh, one of the top 10 most performed country songs of the century. She also guest-starred on the “Another World" show. With Gary Morris, Gayle recorded “Another World” as the theme song for the TV soap opera. Gayle hosted two CBS TV specials and an HBO special. Crystal convinced him to let her sing it and it’s certianly one of the best bargains she’s ever made.She has recorded 22 number one country singles and 34 top 10 singles. “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue” was originally written for another recording artist.Ĭomposer Richard Leigh originally intended to have Dame Shirley Bassey record the song. Her parents eventually moved the family to Indiana to live in a retired miner’s colony.ĥ. Crystal was the only child to be born in a hospital. If you’ve paid attention to the lyrics of Loretta Lynn’s “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” you know that Crystal Gayle and her numerous siblings grew up impoverished in the Appalachian Mountains. She was the only child in her family to be born in a hospital. She has worked as a voice over actress.Ĭrystal Gayle was the voice of ‘Emily’ in the 1993 cartoon “The Country Mouse & the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale” opposite acclaimed actor John Lithgow.Ĥ. On October 20, 2001, Crystal joined the Native American Hall of Fame during a ceremony in Albuquerque, New Mexico.ģ.
The country artist was awarded The Cherokee Medal of Honor in Tahlequah, by the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Her mother Clara Marie Ramey was of Scots-Irish and Cherokee ancestry.
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