Crystal Gayle concert at Renaissance Center to be taped for DVD June 10
Release Date: 4/20/2005. Expired: 6/10/2005
“Before country was ‘cool,’ Crystal was ‘class,’” is how one reviewer described the 30-year career of singer Crystal Gayle. Her signature song, Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue, was named one of the 10 most performed songs of the 20th century by ASCAP.
The Grammy winner and owner of five Female Vocalist of the Year awards from the Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music comes to The Renaissance Center in Dickson June 10 for one show to be videotaped for DVD. Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. concert are $25 and available at The Renaissance Center box office, (615)740-5570.
“Crystal Gayle is one of the artists who helped bring country music into the limelight with songs that crossed over to capture new audiences,” said Steve Hall, senior director of the award-winning Multimedia Department at The Renaissance Center, which will tape the concert. “Her career achievements not only place her at the pinnacle of country artists, but she has shown her vocal versatility with her latest recordings including American standards, gospel and inspirational, children’s music and Christmas songs. We are extremely excited to bring Crystal Gayle to The Renaissance Center and to work on a concert video with a performer of her magnitude.”
Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue won a Grammy in 1977 as Best Country Vocal Performance, Female, and propelled Gayle’s fourth album, We Must Believe in Magic, to platinum status; the first female country artist to reach that achievement.
She won three Top Female Vocalist Awards from the Academy of Country Music, two from the Country Music Association and three American Music Awards, including Favorite Female Artist, in the mid-1970s. She has recorded six gold and two platinum albums.
Gayle first cracked the top 10 of the country charts with Wrong Road Again from her 1975 debut album, Crystal Gayle. That launched a string of hits over the coming years that includes I’ll Get Over You, Ready for the Times to Get Better, Why Have You Left the One You Left Me For, Talking In Your Sleep, (Don’t Take Me) Half the Way, If Ever You Change Your Mind, Livin’ in These Troubled Times, Our Love Is on the Faultline and, of course, her smash hit Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue.
She signed her first recording contract while still in school and released her first single, I’ve Cried the Blue Right Out of My Eyes, written by older sister Loretta Lynn. After reaching the top 20, Gayle released three more singles through the early 1970s before finding a national radio audience with her first album.
With her country radio success crossing over into the pop markets, Gayle reached an even larger audience with her own primetime television special on CBS, followed by a groundbreaking HBO concert special. She has played stages all over the world, from Las Vegas to the London Palladium.
In her third decade of producing country hits, Gayle expanded into new genres, recording an album of gospel and inspirational songs, a children’s album inspired by her appearance on Sesame Street to sing with Big Bird, a Christmas album and then a project very close to her heart in 1999.
“One of my personal career highlights was getting to meet and sing with Hoagy Carmichael on a television special,” she recalls.
That led to the project Crystal Gayle Sings the Heart and Soul of Hoagy Carmichael, an album of some of the composer’s greatest songs such as Stardust and Two Sleepy People.
In 2003, Gayle released All My Tomorrows, a collection of American standards like You Made Me Love You, You Belong to Me, Cry Me a River, It Had to be You, Sentimental Journey and more.
“Crystal Gayle’s concert at The Renaissance Center promises to be a night of hit after unforgettable hit, as well as the class and elegance she has come to embody,” Hall said. “I truly believe this concert will produce a very special video.”
Tickets are on sale now at The Renaissance Center box office, 855 Highway 46 South in Dickson, or by calling (615)740-5570. For more information, call (615)740-5600
The Renaissance Center is an arts and technology education and performing arts center in Dickson, just 35 miles of Nashville on Interstate 40 at exit 172.
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