Richard Leigh recorded his song "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" on a 1991 television show called "The Texas Connection". According to legend Richard had a dog called Amanda, one day the dog looked up at him with her big brown eyes then a few years later a trash collector threw rocks at the dog, and hit it in the eye. The poor dog developed cataracts, and her brown eye literally turned blue!

Loretta Lynn's younger sister, the blue-eyed Crystal Gayle (Brenda Gail Webb) left an impression in 1977 when she recorded "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" for the album "We Must Believe In Magic". Hargus "Pig" Robbins is on keyboard. The single hit number two on the Top One Hundred while it topped the Country chart. The next year it won a Grammy for Best Female Country Performance