So when I was little, I wanted long hair like Crystal Gayle. Hey, it was the last 1970s! So much that I wanted to change my name to Crystal. I hated my last name so I wanted to change it to Grant, my mother’s last name. Crystal Grant. Hmm. My mom wasn’t having it. She said no on Crystal, but that I could change my last name to hers if I really wanted (stop – think about it…). Well, we all know that sharing the name of a Christian pop singer wasn’t the direction I was headed, even at that young age.
Anyhoo. I still have the 45 of Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue . Here’s a classic performance that also – as only the 1970s could – personifies the era.