Brown Eyed Girl

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Written by: Morrison
Produced by: Bert Berns
Released: June '67 on Bang
Charts: 16 weeks
Top spot: No. 10

The cheery "sha-la-la" chorus of "Brown Eyed Girl" brought Morrison to the top of the pop charts. And he hated that. "It put me in some of the worst joints I ever worked," he told ROLLING STONE in 1970. "It just put me in some awkward positions. Like lip-syncing to the record on a television show. I can't lip-sync." Morrison turned his back on mainstream pop success: His next album, the masterful Astral Weeks, was a deeply personal acoustic song cycle that sold practically nothing.

Appears on: Blowin' Your Mind (Sony)

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