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"Beautiful Brown Eyes" is a traditional country song arranged by Fiddlin' Arthur Smith & Alton Delmore of The Delmore Brothers in 1951. An award was presented to Alton Delmore for "Beautiful Brown Eyes" in 1951.〔Thomas S. Hischak ''The Tin Pan Alley song encyclopedia'' 2002- Page 34 ""Beautiful Brown Eyes" (1951) is a flowing waltz based on a traditional melody with unknown sources. Cisco Houston wrote and performed a version of the ballad in vaudeville in the early years of the twentieth century, but the song had pretty much disappeared until Alton Delmore, Arthur Smith, and Jerry Capehart created a new adaptation in created a new adaptation in 1951, and Rosemary Clooney had a hit record with it. It has also been recorded in Swedish with the title Leende guldbruna ögon〕 The lyrics are sung from the perspective of a woman unlucky in love, divorced, remarried and will "never love blue eyes again". 〔Although the title suggests another gushing ballad about a beautiful girl, the lyric is actually the lament of a woman who fell in love with the seductive blue eyes of Willie, married him, lost him, and married another man, and now, seven years later, she unhappily claims she will "never love blue eyes again.〕〔George Batista da Silva ''A MÚSICA DE CONNIE FRANCIS: 120 Letras de Sucesso'' 2011 Page 20 "BEAUTIFUL BROWN EYES (Traditional) Beautiful, beautiful brown eyes Beautiful, beautiful brown eyes Beautiful, beautiful brown eyes I'll never love blue eyes again. Willie, I love you, my Darlin' I love you with all my heart Tomorrow we might "〕 ==Recordings== The following recordings are credited to Smith and Delmore only: *Rosemary Clooney 1951 - reached #11 on Billboard Pop charts in 1951 (Rosemary Clooney discography), reissued on the album Rosemary Clooney Sings Country Hits from the Heart. *Ethel Smith (organist) 1951 *"Beautiful Brown Eyes", Jimmy Wakely and the Les Baxter Chorus - in 1951 in country music *"Beautiful Brown Eyes" (Alton Delmore, Arthur Smith ) from Hum & Strum Along with Chet Atkins *Dickson Hall And The Country All-Stars *Evelyn Knight With The Ray Charles Singers 1951 *Lisa Kirk 1951 *Mimi Martel 1952 *The Belvedere Chorale 1959 *Kitty Wells 1960 *The Manhattans Golden World Records 1964 *Grady Martin And The Slew Foot Five 1965 *Gene Vincent 1981 The following credit Smith, Delmore and also Jerry Capehart (1928-1998) who would have only been 23 when the original Smith-Delmore version was published. *The Brothers Four (A. Smith, A. Delmore, J. Capehart) 1960 *Judy, Johnny and Billy 1960 - an otherwise unknown trio for whom this was the only single *King Curtis 1962 *Kathy Linden 1962 *The Essential Glen Campbell Volume Three 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Beautiful Brown Eyes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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