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"Brown Eyed Girl" is a song by Northern Irish singer and songwriter Van Morrison. Written by Morrison and recorded in March 1967, it was released as a single in June of the same year on the Bang label, peaking at No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 .
"Brown Eyed Girl", one of the songs from Blowin' Your Mind!, was released as a single in mid-June 1967, [71] reaching number ten in the US charts. "Brown Eyed Girl" became Morrison's most-played song. [72] The song spent a total of sixteen weeks on the chart. [73]
Takin' the Country Back is the seventeenth studio album by American country music artist John Anderson. [2] It was released on July 29, 1997, as his first album for Mercury Records after leaving BNA Records in 1996. The album produced the singles "Somebody Slap Me", which peaked at 22 on Country charts, "Small Town", which peaked at 44, and the ...
In 2012, Paste compiled a list of covers by Glen Hansard, Jeff Buckley, The Doors, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Elvis Costello, Ben E. King, Solomon Burke, Michael Bublé, Sinéad O'Connor and Bruce Springsteen as their pick of the 10 Best Covers of Van Morrison Songs.
New York melodic hardcore punk band After the Fall has a song called "1994", which mentions Trashed and other albums released that year. 1994 is from their 2009 album Fort Orange. Trashed includes a cover of Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl" on track 10. [7]
Of the eight songs on the album, all were composed by Morrison except "Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye)" and the last song, "Midnight Special".Clinton Heylin contends that the first side of the album "makes for one of the great single-sided albums in rock", [6] whereas Greil Marcus, the album's most hostile critic, found it "painfully boring, made up of three sweet minutes of 'Brown Eyed Girl' and ...
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The song was released as the follow-up single to Morrison's hit "Brown Eyed Girl." [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 5 ] The b-side of the single was a track that was not included on Blowin' Your Mind called "Chick-A-Boom," which Morrison biographer Clinton Heylin disparaged for silly lyrics such as "I'm going away but I'm coming back/With a ginger cat/What d'ya ...