"Brown Eyed Girl" is a song by Northern Irish singer and songwriter Van Morrison.

Written by Morrison and recorded in March 1967, it was released as a single in June of the same year on the Bang label, peaking at No.

[2] It featured the Sweet Inspirations singing back-up vocals and is considered to be Van Morrison's signature song.

[6] Of the musicians Berns had assembled, there were three guitarists – Eric Gale, Hugh McCracken,[7][8] and Al Gorgoni – plus bassist Russ Savakus and organist Garry Sherman, as well as Gary Chester on drums.

Lyrically, it "shows early hints of the idealized pastoral landscapes that would flow through his songs through the decades, a tendency that links him to the Romantic poets, whom Morrison has cited as an influence".

[17] Morrison vented frustration about this unjust contract in his sarcastic nonsense song "The Big Royalty Check".

[19] Morrison's original recording of "Brown Eyed Girl" has remained widely familiar, as the uncensored version of the song is regularly played by many "oldies" and "classic rock" radio stations.

[24] It was his first single after leaving his position as lead singer for the Belfast-formed Them and led to his relocation to the United States and an eventual contract with Warner Bros. Records.

In a contemporaneous review, Billboard described the single as an "exciting debut" and a "groovy piece of original rock material that should fast establish [Morrison] as a top disk seller and writer".

"[27] In his 1989 book The Heart of Rock and Soul, The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever, Dave Marsh rated "Brown Eyed Girl" No. 386.

The musicians include:[9] El Chicano remade "Brown Eyed Girl" for their 1972 album Celebration.

[50] British singer/songwriter Iain Matthews remade "Brown Eyed Girl" for his 1976 album Go for Broke[52] from which it was issued as the lead single, becoming a hit in the Netherlands (No.

13) for Jimmy Buffett as recorded for his One Particular Harbour album (1983),[55] "Brown Eyed Girl" was a 1984 C&W hit for Joe Stampley (No.

[56] "Brown Eyed Girl" has been performed by a wide variety of other artists, including Adele,[57]John Anderson,[58] the Black Sorrows,[59] Busted,[59] Billy Ray Cyrus,[60] Ellert Driessen (nl),[59] Everclear,[59] Caroline Jones,[61] Roberto Jordán (as "La Chica De Los Ojos Cafés" Spanish),[62] Bertie Higgins,[63] Ronan Keating,[64] Brian Kennedy,[65] Lagwagon,[66] Glen Medeiros,[59] Reel Big Fish,[67] Johnny Rivers,[59] Shooting Gallery,[68] Bruce Springsteen,[69] Steel Pulse,[59] U2[70] and Els Pets.