Patsy Cline – Crazy

“Crazy” – Single by Patsy Cline from the album Showcase.
Release Date: October 16th 1961
Producer: Owen Bradley
Songwriter: Willie Nelson

This was written by Willie Nelson. He was a struggling country singer at the time and got a big break when Cline recorded this and made it a hit. It has become one of Nelson’s most enduring songs. He covered the song for his own debut album, …And Then I Wrote, in 1962.

A classic torch song, “Crazy” finds Cline despondent after losing her love, who has run off with someone else. She always knew it would never work between them, but she still can’t get over it, which seems crazy, but happens to the best of us.

On an episode of VH1’s Storytellers, Willie Nelson revealed that this was originally titled “Stupid.”

According to Mojo magazine, Willie Nelson originally tried to sell this along with several other of his songs to country music singer Larry Butler for $10 a piece. Butler refused to take advantage, fortunately for Patsy Cline who, despite initially disliking “Crazy,” made it into a huge hit. Both Cline’s husband Charlie Dick and her producer Owen Bradley loved the song, and they that persuaded Cline to record it.

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“Crazy” became Cline’s most successful pop single, her signature song, and one of the country songs that generated the most royalties. Nelson dubbed Cline’s his favorite version of his composition. He opined that her interpretation was done with “delicacy, soul, and perfect diction”.

In 1992, Patsy’s version of “Crazy” was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame.

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