My mother took me to see a stern German doctor who told me to quit…and I quit. I didn’t sit and cry, it was more internal. “I developed a nervous habit and went into a shell. She did two jobs to keep food on the table.” “Dad died four years later mum stayed strong for us. Her mother, Clara, worked in a restaurant, before qualifying as a nurse. The mines closed when she was four and the family moved to Wabash, Indiana. Sadly, their father Melvin, known as Ted, a subsistence farmer as well as a miner, developed black lung disease. Like Loretta’s famous song says, Gayle is proud to be a coalminer’s daughter. Yet her feet remain firmly on the ground.
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As well as Brown Eyes, she notched up 20 US country Numbers Ones, a Grammy, a wagon train full of prestigious awards, a custom-made Barbie doll and a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame. That decision made Gayle one of the most successful crossover artists of the late 70s and 80s.
“And she was right, I had to do my own thing and go a different way.” She told me, ‘Quit singing my songs, and don’t sing anything I would sing because we already have one Loretta and we don’t need another go your own way, go middle of the road’. “But I soon realised I had to make it on my own. Loretta “got my foot in the door,” says Crystal. Gayle only emerged from her oldest sister’s shadow when Lynn told her to stop trying to be her. Loretta suggested the stage name Crystal, inspired by a Krystal Hamburger restaurant sign. “I would’ve been Brenda Gayle but they already had Brenda Lee and didn’t want two Brendas,” she says with a smile. Loretta helped convince Decca Records to sign her and wrote her first US hit, 1970’s I’ve Cried (The Blue Right Out Of My Eyes). Her voice is soft and friendly, her knee-length hair would make Rapunzel jealous and if her 52years of fame have gone to her head she hides it incredibly well. Her eyes are blue, not brown, but in all other aspects, Crystal is exactly how you’d hope she’d be. “I loved playing rodeos and outdoor dates under the stars, I still do.”
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