Crystal (Crystal Gayle album)

Crystal
Studio album by Crystal Gayle
Released	August 6, 1976
Recorded	Jack's Tracks Recording Studios, Nashville, Tennessee
Genre	Country
Length	28:03
Label	United Artists
Producer	Allen Reynolds
Crystal Gayle chronology
Somebody Loves You (1975) Crystal (1976) We Must Believe in Magic (1977)

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Crystal is the third album by Crystal Gayle, and rose to the #7 spot on the Billboard Country Albums chart. It was released on August 6, 1976. It contained four charting singles, including two #1 hits: "You Never Miss a Real Good Thing (Till He Says Goodbye)" and "Ready for the Times to Get Better." Another single, "I'll Do It All Over Again," just barely missed being the third chart-topper, stalling out at #2, while "One More Time (Karneval)" could only rise to #31.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"I'll Do It All Over Again"	Bob McDill, Wayland Holyfield	2:52
2.	"Oh My Soul"	Marcia Routh	2:18
3.	"Ready for the Times to Get Better"	Allen Reynolds	2:11
4.	"Come Home Daddy"	Tina Newkirk	2:44
5.	"One More Time (Karneval)"	Joachim Heider, Christian Heilburg, Bryan Blackburn	3:55
6.	"You Never Miss a Real Good Thing (Till He Says Goodbye)"	McDill	3:47
7.	"Right in the Palm of Your Hand"	McDill	3:03
8.	"Forgettin' 'Bout You"	Reynolds, Don Williams	2:27
9.	"Let's Do It Right"	Richard Leigh, Richard Mainegra	2:04
10.	"I'm Not So Far Away"	Garth Fundis	2:42

Personnel

• Crystal Gayle – vocals
• Chris Leuzinger, Jimmy Colvard - electric guitar
• Allen Reynolds, David Kirby, Garth Fundis, Jimmy Colvard - acoustic guitar
• Lloyd Green - steel guitar, resonator guitar
• Buddy Spicher - fiddle
• Joe Allen - bass
• Bobby Wood - keyboards
• Charles Cochran - keyboards, string and horn arrangements
• Jimmy Isbell - drums, percussion
• Allen Reynolds, Garth Fundis, Sandy Mason, Crystal Gayle - backing vocals
• Billy Puett, Dennis Good, Don Sheffield - horns
• Carl Gorodetzky, Gary Vanosdale, George Binkley III, Lennie Haight, Marvin Chantry, Roy Christensen, Sheldon Kurland - strings
• The Trolley Car Band - special effects