We Must Believe in Magic

We Must Believe in Magic
Studio album by Crystal Gayle
Released	1977
Genre	Country
Length	29:49
Label	United Artists
Producer	Allen Reynolds
Crystal Gayle chronology
Crystal (1976) We Must Believe in Magic (1977) I've Cried the Blue Right Out of My Eyes (1978)

We Must Believe in Magic is the fourth studio album by American country music singer Crystal Gayle. Released in 1977, it became her highest selling album, reaching #2 on the Billboard Country Albums chart and #12 on the main Billboard album chart (her first album to enter the main chart and her only album to make the Top 30 there to date). It was certified platinum by the RIAA in 1978. The album also has the distinction of being the first platinum album recorded by a female artist in country music. It was also Gayle's first album to chart in the UK, where it reached #15, and was certified silver by the BPI. In the Netherlands, it stayed on the charts for two weeks and peaked at #29.

The album contains Gayle's huge international chart hit "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue", which was not only her third #1 Country chart hit, but also reached #2 on the Billboard 100, becoming her biggest hit. Another track, "River Road", charted at #64 on the Country Singles chart when it appeared on the Favorites compilation album in 1980.

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Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue"	Richard Leigh	2:37
2.	"I Wanna Come Back to You"	Johnny Christopher, Samuel Hogin	2:54
3.	"River Road"	Sylvia Fricker Tyson	3:08
4.	"It's All Right with Me"	Cole Porter	2:32
5.	"Going Down Slow"	B. Bond	3:41
6.	"All I Wanna Do in Life"	Allen Reynolds, Sandy Mason Theoret	2:26
7.	"Make a Dream Come True"	Larry Kingston	3:06
8.	"Green Door"	Bob Davie, Marvin Moore	3:11
9.	"Funny"	Liz Anderson	2:05
10.	"We Must Believe in Magic"	Bob McDill, Reynolds	4:09

Production

• Produced by Allen Reynolds
• Engineered by Garth Fundis

Personnel

• Gene Chrisman, Jim Isbell, Kenny Malone – drums, percussion
• Joe Allen, Mike Leech – bass guitar
• Dave Kirby, Johnny Christopher, Jim Colvard, Reggie Young, Allen Reynolds – guitars
• Lloyd Green – steel guitar
• Bobby Wood, Hargus "Pig" Robbins – keyboards
• Shane Keister – synthesizers
• New Grass Revival, The Trolleycar Band – special effects
• Buddy Spicher, Sam Bush – fiddle
• Courtney Johnson – banjo
• Billy Puett – flute, clarinet
• Carl Gorodetsky, Gary Vanosdale, George Binkley, Lenny Haight, Marvin Chantry, Roy Christensen, Sheldon Kurland – strings
• Janie Fricke, Marcia Routh, Pebble Daniel, Sandy Mason Theoret, Garth Fundis – backing vocals

Notes

External links

• "We Must Believe in Magic" at discogs