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Crystal Gayle had her first hit single, “I’ve Cried (The Blue Right Out of My Eyes),” in 1970, but it would be six years before she topped the country chart with “I’ll Get Over You” – and seven years ...

While he's renowned for the decade-old hit "Blue Ain't Your Color," 2012-inducted Grand Ole Opry member Keith Urban sang 2017 cast inductee Crystal Gayle's “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" at the ...

The "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" singer coaxed big sister Loretta Lynn into the studio for a classic collaboration Nancy Kruh is a Nashville-based writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has covered the ...

After her song “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue” blew up the charts, every song pitched to Crystal Gayle had the word “blue” in it. The year was 1977, and Gayle’s country music career was heating up.

Despite Cherokee ancestry (her maternal great-grandfather was full-blooded Cherokee) that allows Gayle to grow ground-sweeping hair that Rapunzel would envy, the creator of the smash hit, Don t It ...