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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 .
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 ...
"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]
Van Morrison (born George Ivan Morrison on 31 August 1945) is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter who has been a professional musician since 1960. He has won six Grammy awards and was inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame in 2003.
One of the songs was "Brown Eyed Girl", which charted at No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. [5] By April 2008, he had been on the Billboard album chart a total of 787 weeks. [ 6 ]
Back on Top (song) Ballerina (Van Morrison song) Behind the Ritual; Beside You (Van Morrison song) Blue Money; Brand New Day (Van Morrison song) Bright Side of the Road; Brown Eyed Girl; Bulbs (song) Burning Ground
T.B. Sheets is a retrospective album of recordings made in 1967 by Northern Irish musician Van Morrison, released in 1973 on Bang Records.It contains songs that had appeared on Morrison's debut album, Blowin' Your Mind!, including his first hit, "Brown Eyed Girl".
Three of Morrison's songs were included and ranked: "Moondance" (226), "Gloria" (208) (with Them) and "Brown Eyed Girl" (109). [27] In 2010, Rolling Stone released an updated list, which including more songs from the 21st century; " Into the Mystic ", from the album Moondance , was added and ranked at number 474.