Best of Crystal Gayle

Crystal Gayle | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 19, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 1976
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino
• ASIN: B000063127
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #21,950 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue

2. If You Ever Change Your Mind

3. You and I

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. The 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. A Long and Lasting Love

15. Makin' up for Lost Time

16. Cry

17. Straight to the Heart

18. Another World

19. Where Dear Friends Never Part

Editorial Reviews

The first "best-of" spanning Crystal's entire career (with Columbia, Elektra and Warner Bros.) and the only one featuring all her #1 songs! Includes Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue; You and I (with Eddie Rabbitt); If You Ever Change Your Mind; Turning Away; Baby, What About You; Straight to the Heart; Cry; The Sound of Goodbye , and 12 more!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Crystal Clear, April 4, 2002

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James E. Bagley "Jim Bagley" (Sanatoga, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of Crystal Gayle (Audio CD)

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.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Crystal and memories, February 6, 2008

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Roberta Hotard "Mrs. H" (Somewhere here, Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of Crystal Gayle (Audio CD)

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!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great 80s collection of hits, January 18, 2007

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caj - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of Crystal Gayle (Audio CD)

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.