El Chicano remade "Brown Eyed Girl" for their 1972 album "Celebration". Kapp Records had invited music journalist Don Buday to produce the album, being impressed by Buday's writings on El Chicano: Buday had the group remake "Brown Eyed Girl" and also the Cream hit "I Feel Free" "try to give Chicano more of a rock-and-roll identity". Journeyman recording engineer Val Garay, who had his first engineering assignment producing "Celebration", would recall that "Don got this brilliant idea of 'Brown Eyed Girl'...kind of like the 'Mexican Everly Brothers". Released as the album's lead single, "Brown Eyed Girl" peaked at No. 45 on the "Billboard" Hot 100. Chicanismo scholar Dionne Espinoza opined that the El Chicano version of "Brown Eyed Girl" turned the song into "an affirmation of the beauty of brown[-skinned women".