Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison - MP3 instrumental karaoke

Van Morrison’s “Brown Eyed Girl” is from his Blowin’ Your Mind! album. According to the artist, several things about the song’s release didn’t go as planned. The song was a hit during the Summer of Love (1969) but the Northern Ireland singer wanted nothing to do with the hippie scene so he was horrified when the record company packaged the album with a psychedelic design. Some radio stations balked at the “making love in the tall grass” line so they over-dubbed “laughin’ and a-runnin’” from an earlier verse. It has been long rumored that Morrison was pressured to change his original title “Brown Skinned Girl” to “Brown Eyed Girl.” The singer says although it’s true that he had written skinned originally, he just started singing eyed when he recorded it and didn’t notice it until he looked at the title written on the box from the recording tape. The backing track for “Brown Eyed Girl” is available with background vocals or as an instrumental. Be sure to check out the other arrangements of this song on Karaoke Version.