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Van Morrison – Brown Eyed Girl (2:52)

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The song was first released in May 1967 on the album Blowin’ Your Mind!. When released as a single, it rose to number eight on the Cashbox charts, and reached number ten on the Billboard Hot 100. It featured the Sweet Inspirations singing back-up vocals and is widely-considered to be Van Morrison’s signature song.

Paul Williams included “Brown Eyed Girl” in his book Rock and Roll: The 100 Best Singles, writing that:

I was going to say this is a song about sex, and it is, and a song about youth and growing up, and memory, and it’s also — very much and very wonderfully - a song about singing.

Originally titled “Brown-Skinned Girl”, Morrison changed it to “Brown Eyed Girl” when he recorded it. Morrison remarked on the original title: “That was just a mistake. It was a kind of Jamaican song. Calypso. It just slipped my mind. I changed the title. After we’d recorded it, I looked at the tape box and didn’t even notice that I’d changed the title…I looked at the box where I’d lain it down with my guitar and it said ‘Brown Eyed Girl’ on the tape box. It’s just one of those things that happen.”

The song’s nostalgic lyrics about a former love were considered too suggestive at the time to be played on many radio stations. A radio-edit of the song was released which excised the lyrics “making love in the green grass”, replacing them with “laughin’ and a-runnin’” from a previous verse. This edited version appears on some copies of the compilation album The Best of Van Morrison.
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  • The Best of Van Morrison
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  • The Definitive 60's (sixties)
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  • PurplePostRock

    Sha-La-la-la Lalala!~ ❤

    Sunday afternoon

  • cheebadon

    yeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!

    13 days ago

  • dabigcheeze

    I know it's been played to death. I know there's so much more to Van Morrison than this one song. But I can't help loving it. It's just wonderful.

    19 days ago

  • nick_honest

    great song

    20 days ago

  • stardust-01

    Awesome Track..//

    21 days ago

  • Druid66

    Hair and eye color don't matter, as long as she's the right girl. Van thinks she is, and who am I to argue with him?

    last month

  • moresweetb

    Dancin' & Singin' to this on our honeymoon:) Luv'

    last month

  • AnIslandGurl

    my fav song of his....♫

    last month

  • AvianCrowd0

    Brother Van the Man!!! how about it???

    last month

  • CityGirl245

    Sha la la la la la la .....

    last month

  • davidbowiegirl

    Great song <3

    last month

  • PattySauce

    Makes me so happy!!!

    last month

  • DonkeyHotai

    I understand this got restricted play because of the lyrics about being behind the stadium with presumably an underage girl doing the horizontal bop .. my how she has grown ;-)

    last month

  • supermediadave

    La Ti Da...lovin' it. Reminds me of a long lost love.

    last month

  • Philipstown

    Who plays guitar?

    last month

  • oldiesfanjohn

    Nice song..been played to death tho,ya think?

    March 2012

  • lzcool

    Perfect song ... always bring me up.

    March 2012

  • wolfy76484

    one of his best

    March 2012

  • JuniorMcCartney

    We used to sing "Sha la la la la la la la la la la ti da"...

    March 2012

  • bigbudge69

    most played record on british radio

    March 2012
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