"I'll Get Over You" is a song made famous by country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 singer Crystal Gayle

Crystal Gayle

Crystal Gayle is an American country music singer best known for her 1977 country-pop hit, "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue". An award-winning singer, she accumulated 18 number one country hits during the 1970s and 1980s...

. Written by Richard Leigh

Richard Leigh (songwriter)

Richard Leigh is an American country music songwriter and singer. He is best known for penning "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" . In 1978 he received a Grammy Award for "Best Country Song" for the popular song...

, the song was Crystal Gayle's seventh chart hit and her first number-one country hit in 1976.

In the mid-1970s, Gayle was trying to establish a recording career in country music. Gayle wanted one that was nearly as big as her sister Loretta Lynn

Loretta Lynn

Loretta Lynn is an American country music singer-songwriter, author and philanthropist. Born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky to a coal miner father, Lynn married at 13 years old, was a mother soon after, and moved to Washington with her husband, Oliver Lynn. Their marriage was sometimes tumultuous; he...

. It was the help of her sister that helpled produce Gayle's first single called "I've Cried the Blue Right Out of My Eyes."

However, it was the help of songwriter Richard Leigh who helped her gain control of her career. He wrote her first two big hits "Wrong Road Again

Wrong Road Again

"Wrong Road Again" is a country song written by songwriter Richard Leigh and was Crystal Gayle's first hit song. It was released in September 1974....

" and "Somebody Loves You

Somebody Loves You (Crystal Gayle song)

"Somebody Loves You" is a country music song written by Allen Reynolds and became a hit for Crystal Gayle in 1976."Somebody Loves You" was one of two hits produced by Crystal Gayle in 1976. "Somebody Loves You" was followed by the single, "I'll Get Over You". Gayle's voice was still growing when...

". In 1976, Gayle finally released "I'll Get Over You". The song became Gayle's first number-one hit and the song made Gayle a household name.

That same year, "I'll Get Over You" was released on her 1976 album Somebody Loves You

Somebody Loves You

Somebody Loves You was the second album by Crystal Gayle. It rose as high as #11 on the Billboard Country Albums chart, with two tracks that broke into the Top Ten Country Singles: The title song, "Somebody Loves You," peaked at #8, and Gayle scored her first ever #1 Country hit with "I'll Get Over...

. "I'll Get Over You" remains as one of her best-known songs.

Chart performance

Chart (1976)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles	1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	71
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks	40
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	2