Audio CD review:
Crystal Gayle - Best of Crystal Gayle

Crystal Gayle - Best of Crystal Gayle

Band: Crystal Gayle Title: Best of Crystal Gayle Rating: Release Date: 18 July, 2006 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue 2: Somebody Loves You 3: Cry Me a River 4: Someday Soon 5: More Than Love 6: River Road 7: High Time 8: You'll Be Loved Someday 9: Don't Treat Me Like a Stranger 10: Let's Do It Right 11: Sweet Baby on My Mind 12: Loving You So Long Now 13: You're the Best Thing in My Life 14: Lay Back Lover 15: Through Believing in Love Songs 16: Coming Closer 17: Sneakin' Out the Back Door 18: Wrong Road Again 19: I Want to Lose Me in You 20: Why Have You Left the One You Left for Me 21: [CD-ROM Track] [Multimedia Track] 22: Talking in Your Sleep 23: Hello I Love You 24: Faithless Love 25: Wayward Wind 26: Never Ending Song of Love 27: Before I'm Fool Enough 28: Green Door 29: Woman's Heart (Is a Handy Place to Be) 30: We Must Believe in Magic 31: I'm Not So Far Away 32: Gonna Lay Me Down Beside My Memories 33: What He's Doing Now 34: Forgettin' 'Bout You 35: Too Good to Throw Away 36: Right in the Palm of Your Hand 37: It Ain't Gonna Worry My Mind 38: What You've Done for Me 39: Trouble with Me (Is You) 40: Just Like the Blues 41: Whenever It Comes to You

Customer Review A mix of hits and rarities This collection is compiled from Crystal's recordings for United Artists in the seventies (the music most people remember her for), together with a few of her Capitol tracks from the early nineties. Among the singing Webb sisters, Loretta Lynn has apparently achieved greater fame and recognition in America but it is her much younger sister, Crystal Gayle (real name Brenda Gail Webb) who has achieved greater international acclaim, especially in Britain. It is not a definitive collection as several classic songs are omitted, but with forty tracks it provides plenty of entertainment. You may wish to buy a hits collection to go with this to obtain I'll get over you, When I dream, Ready for the times to get better, You never miss a real good thing, all of which you might expect to find here. Nevertheless, their absence allows many rare tracks to be included, all of which are brilliant. In total, Crystal had eighteen number one hits on the American country charts although only six of them were with United Artists and only three of those are here. However, her two major international pop hits (Don't it make my brown eyes blue, Talking in your sleep) were with United Artists and they are, of course, included here along with Why have you let the one you left me for, Somebody loves you, Wrong road again, River road, I'm not so far away, Right in the palm of your hand, High time and We must believe in magic, just to name a few of the great original songs here. Also here is Crystal's original recording of What he's doing now. Though written by Garth Brooks, he only recorded it (as What she's doing now) a year or so after Crystal's version was first released. Crystal showed her interest in a wide variety of material as is evident in her choice of oldies that she covered. These included Green door (a fifties classic, revived by Shakin' Stevens in the eighties), Wayward wind (a fifties hit in America for Gogi Grant and a sixties hit in Britain for Frank Ifield), Someday soon (an Ian Tyson song first popularised by Judy Collins), Never ending song of love (New Seekers), Faithless love (Linda Ronstadt) and Cry me a river (Julie London). While not as strong as the double-CD released in the UK some years ago (EMI country masters - 50 original tracks), this is a great compilation that contains plenty of tracks not otherwise currently available. . You can see a complete list of all Crystal Gayle discography, or go back to the Crystal Gayle tabs