Crystal Gayle: S/D, C/D, etc.

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Last night, on a whim, I downloaded "Just Call Me Angel in the Morning," a song I don't think I've heard, certainly not all the way through, in many years, but one that was a favorite of mine when I was a kid, probably mostly for the chorus (which is all I really remembered). I was right! This is a great song. I love how her accent sounds the first time she says "angel" each time the chorus comes around. "Baby!"

What are her other good songs?

Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

At 2:44: Baby! Baby!

Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't that Juice Newton? I don't think Crystal Gayle ever recorded "Angel of the Morning" . . .

But, as far as Crystal goes, search "Half the Way," "River Road," "Talking In Your Sleep," most of the big hits, I guess. If you're talking Juice, though, she's a bona fide classic.

monkeybutler, Tuesday, 29 November 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

Maybe the original was Juice Newton, but this version is great. Maybe someone had it mislabeled.

Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

The original was Merrilee Rush in '68. and based on your accent comment I think this is the version you downloaded.

Allen Baekeland (Allen Baekeland), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 23:54 (twenty years ago)

You're right!

Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

Merrilee Rush: "Angel of the Morning" -- Fantastic!

Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

Now why would a Romanian in an Iranian-oriented hub have a mislabeled Merrilee Rush song?

Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 00:28 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

Wow this thread was too short, but then again the misidentification of the track that started it all was a derail from the get-go.

Searched to see if we had a Gayle thread based on the Ronnie Milsap thread just now. One of my dad's favorite singers in the late seventies, along with Linda Rondstadt and Bonnie Raitt, and "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" is one of the first chart songs as such that I remember at all:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwq9BGRYrP0

Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 October 2009 16:21 (sixteen years ago)

"Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" is great! I love "Talking In Your Sleep" too, a great weeper.

Euler, Monday, 26 October 2009 16:33 (sixteen years ago)

Totally love this eerie song from a few years ago called "Midnight In The Desert," which she apparently wrote as a theme for Art Bell's early-morning tinfoil-hat UFO-conspiracy radio show (which I used to listen to sometimes to keep me awake while driving from PA back to NYC):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cmUpgvmFk4

xhuxk, Monday, 26 October 2009 17:15 (sixteen years ago)

eight years pass...

I am all in on Crystal Gayle the past couple weeks. A lot of her stuff seems to be withheld from streaming services for some reason, but collecting the vinyl is absurdly inexpensive. Pretty much everything from the beginning up through 1982's True Love is solid good times. The pre first album singles comp, I've Cried the Blue Right Out of My Eyes, all recorded with Owen Bradley, is particularly nice.

Johnny Fever, Saturday, 26 May 2018 18:20 (seven years ago)


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