"Beautiful Brown Eyes" is a country song written by Alton Delmore, originally inspired by his oldest daughter. One of the best known versions of the song was originally arranged by Fiddlin' Arthur Smith & Alton DelmoreofThe Delmore Brothers in 1951. An award was presented to Alton Delmore for "Beautiful Brown Eyes" in 1951.[1]
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.
^Thomas S. Hischak The Tin Pan Alley Song Encyclopedia 2002, p. 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 1951, and Rosemary Clooney had a hit record with it. It has also been recorded in Swedish with the title Leende guldbruna ögon
^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, p. 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"
^Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 368.
