New York, NY (Top40 Charts) The spotlight exhibit devoted to crossover star Crystal
Gayle will end its run at the Country
Music Hall of Fame and Museum on February 1, 2015. Crystal Gayle: When I
Dream recounts Gayle's unique rise to stardom and features fashion, awards, letters, family photos and more from her groundbreaking career. She began as a young dreamer emboldened, but nearly pigeonholed, by the pioneering success of her older sister Loretta Lynn. Determined to make her own mark,
Gayle grew into a superb vocalist whose signature glamour and pop-infused hits charmed the entire country.
In 1974, Gayle, signed to United Artists Records, began to work with producer Allen Reynolds, a great song man whose musical instincts and mentoring perfectly complemented Gayle's developing vision and smooth alto. Later that year she scored her first Top Ten hit with "Wrong Road Again." Her first #1, "I'll Get Over You," followed two years later, along with another chart-topper, "You Never Miss a Real Good Thing (Till He Says Goodbye)." In 1977, she became a household name when "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" perched atop the country charts for four weeks and climbed the pop charts in
America and around the world.
Gayle enjoyed fifteen additional Billboard #1 hits between 1978 and 1987, including "Talking in Your Sleep" and "It's Like We Never Said Goodbye." In 1978, her album We Must Believe in Magic was certified platinum for sales of a million units.
Gayle won back-to-back Female Vocalist honors from the Academy of Country
Music in 1976 and 1977 and from the Country
Music Association in 1977 and 1978.
For the last twenty years,
Gayle has gained acclaim for compelling specialty recordings, including albums of gospel and children's music, a tribute to Hoagy Carmichael, a collection of pop standards, and concert recordings—all featuring her effortlessly smooth vocals. For more information visit countrymusichalloffame.org.
Spotlight exhibits supplement themes or aspects of the museum's core exhibition, Sing Me Back Home: A
Journey Through Country Music. These short-term, informal displays either provide a closer look at a particular person, group or aspect of country music, or spotlight recently donated items or special anniversaries. Rotated often, spotlight exhibits also offer a glimpse into the museum's unique collection, which includes recorded discs; historical photographs; films and videotapes; thousands of posters, books, songbooks, periodicals and sheet music; personal artifacts such as performers' instruments, costumes and accessories; and more.
Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, the Country
Music Hall of Fame and Museum is operated by the Country
Music Foundation, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) educational organization chartered by the state of Tennessee in 1964. The museum's mission is the preservation of the history of country and related vernacular music rooted in southern culture. With the same educational mission, the foundation also operates CMF Records, the museum's Frist Library and Archive, CMF Press, Historic RCA
Studio B and Hatch Show Print.
More information about the Country
Music Hall of Fame® and Museum is available at countrymusichalloffame.org.
