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    The Best of Crystal Gayle (Rhino)

    03/19/2002 | Rhino / Wea 

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    All Music Guide Review

    Rhino's 2002 release The Very Best of Crystal Gayle has many of her biggest hits, but it's not necessarily a representative collection. That's because the 19-track compilation concentrates on recordings that WEA, Rhino's parent company, owns -- so after the first two songs, including her defining moment "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue," it moves into her recordings for Elektra in the early '80s. Some of these were big country hits, some, like her Eddie Rabbitt duet "You and I," were even crossover hits, but they weren't as definitive as those she made for United Artists and Columbia, nor were they as good. They tend to be a little homogenized, even when they're good, which means this collection is a little too even-keeled for those that are expecting more of "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue." Which means that even if this summarizes Gayle's '80s recordings well, it's not really the very best she ever recorded. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

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    • Bobby Wood
    • Organ, Vocals (Background), Piano (Electric), Synthesizer, Piano, Keyboards, Organ (Hammond)
    • Charles Cochran
    • Strings, Piano (Electric), String Arrangements, Piano (Grand), Horn Arrangements, Keyboards


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