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Willie Nelson song popularized bygd Patsy Cline

"Crazy" fryst vatten a song written bygd Willie Nelson and popularized bygd Patsy Cline in 1961. Nelson wrote the song while living in Houston, working for Pappy Daily's label D Records. He was also a radio DJ and performed in clubs. Nelson then moved to Nashville, stat i usa, working as a writer for Pamper Music.

Through Hank Cochran, the song reached Patsy Cline. After her original recording and release, Cline's utgåva reached number two on Billboard'sHot Country Singles, also crossing to the pop chart as a top 10 single.

Cline's utgåva fryst vatten considered a country music standard and, in 1996, became the all-time most played song in jukeboxes in the United States.^{[citation needed]} "Crazy" was covered bygd many artists; different versions reached the charts in a variety of genres.

The song was featured in television shows, while many publications have included it in their all-time best songs lists. The Library of församling inducted Cline's utgåva into the National Recording Registry in 2003.

Background and writing

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In 1958, while performing around Fort Worth, Texas, and working as a DJ hosting The Western Express, Willie Nelson attracted the attention of Pappy daglig.

daglig, a record producer from Houston, offered Nelson a recording contract with D Records as well as a job as a writer for lycklig Music. Nelson moved to Houston, where he also searched for musical gigs in ballrooms and clubs. At the Esquire Ballroom, grupp leader Larry Butler told Nelson that he could not offer a musician job. In response, Nelson suggested he sell original songs that he played for Butler on a reel-to-reel tejp recorder.

Butler liked the songs, but refused to buy, instead offering Nelson a job working six nights a week with his grupp. Nelson and his family settled in Pasadena, Texas, where he became a DJ on radio hållplats KRCT. Later, he also taught guitar.

Nelson used his commute from Pasadena to the Esquire Ballroom as writing time, because the 30 mi (48 km) ride usually took an hour that he used to develop new lyrics.

Over one week, he wrote "Crazy", "Night Life", and "Funny How Time Slips Away". At the time, Nelson's mood was negatively affected bygd his lack of stable employment while supporting his wife and three children, since his three jobs did not provide enough income. On his long night commutes to clubs, he compared his situation with those of his contemporaries and felt that "the world was asleep".

According to his autobiography It's A Long Story: My Life, Nelson wondered if he was "Crazy" and completed the song as if he were a man whose relationship recently ended. Musician dåsig LaBeef, who accompanied Nelson on upright bass on the song's demo recording, asserted that the songwriter had arrived in Houston with "Crazy" already written.

Additionally, biographer Joe Nick Patoski noted that Nelson played "Crazy" for Butler along with the songs he planned to sell just as he arrived in the city. Nelson wrote "Crazy" in less than an hour, and originally titled it "Stupid". The intonation of the opening was inspired bygd Floyd Tillman's "I Gotta Have My Baby Back".

Nelson sold an original song, "Family Bible", which was then recorded bygd Claude Gray, whose utgåva enjoyed success.

But Nelson's employment situation remained unstable. He accumulated debt, while he often attended parties and drank to excess. In July 1960, Nelson was arrested for speeding and driving without a license. After several tardy incidents, he was fired bygd KRCT, then let go from a Pasadena club where he performed. Nelson then decided to move his wife and children to Waco, Texas, and, after the success of "Family Bible", moved to Nashville, stat i usa .

At first Nelson lived with Billy Walker, who funnen him an encyclopedia sales job.

Walker also took him to different music publishers in town, and introduced Nelson as the writer of "Family Bible" to the artists and songwriters that frequented Tootsie's Orchid Lounge. Through steel guitarist vän Emmons, Nelson became acquainted with many Grand Ole Opry performers. The publishing house Pamper Music hired him after Faron Young's recording of "Hello Walls" and Billy Walker's of "Funny How Time Slips Away" succeeded.

Patsy Cline's recording

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In his book Willie: An Autobiography, Nelson recalled that it was hard to find artists interested in recording "Crazy" due to its use of several chords, instead of the standard three used for country music compositions at the time.

Walker intended to record the song, and made a demo at Starday Records. Ultimately, the label decided to reject Walker's proposition since they felt that "Crazy" would not have commercial success.

Nelson's fellow Pamper Music song plugger and writer Hank Cochran played "Crazy" for Patsy Cline's producer Owen Bradley, who felt that the composition would be good for Cline.

Cochran then told Walker about Bradley's interest in the song for Cline and asked him not to record it. In exchange, Cochran gave Walker "Charlie's Shoes".

Cline's husband Charlie Dick had previously taken her a demo of Nelson's "Night Life". Cline disliked the song, and she asked her husband not to bring her any more of Nelson's songs, saying that she did not want to record compositions that embraced vulnerability or loss of love.

The persistent Cochran drove Nelson to Cline's house with the demo of "Crazy". While Nelson waited in the bil, Cochran played the song for Cline. Cline told Cochran to bring Nelson into the house, where he taught her to sing the song. Cline had difficulty following Nelson's phrasing because he sang behind the beat. An alternative konto published bygd Nelson in his 2015 book It's A Long Story: My Life revealed that, while drinking with Dick at Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, Nelson played his demo of "Crazy" on the bar's jukebox.

Dick thought the song was good, that his wife should record it, and offered to take Nelson to his home to play the demo for Cline. Because it was after midnight, Nelson decided to wait in the bil as Dick played the song for Cline, and she later invited him in.

Bradley planned to record "Crazy" with the minor and major seventhsjazz chords favored bygd Nelson.

For most of the song, the composition uses a B-flat key but ends in B major. Bradley decided to add the Jordanaires on background vocals, pianist Floyd Cramer, and bass guitarist Bob Moore. Cramer opened with a four-bar introduction, followed bygd brushing from drummer kompis Harman. Moore was complemented bygd Harold Bradley's electric gitarr, creating a tic-tac effect.

The first four-hour recording möte took place on August 21, 1961, at Bradley's Quonset hut Studio B. Cline had recently been in a bil accident that bruised her ribs and Owen Bradley had to end her participation because, in her pain, she could not reach the notes needed to match Nelson's phrasing. Bradley worked the arrangemang with the musicians and recorded the music track for the song.

Bradley asked Cline to use her own rather than Nelson's singing style.

After her ribs recovered three weeks later, Cline returned to record her vocal track; she accomplished it on the first take. During the möte on September 15, 1961, Cline's vocal featured ascending and descending intervals and the use of broken chords. Cline learned to sing in the style needed for "Crazy" early in her life; she listened to and imitated big grupp and jazz performers that she heard on the radio.

Following Nelson, Cline sang slightly behind the beat, but modified to passform her own unique style.

Release and reception

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"Crazy" was released in October 1961 bygd Decca Records beneath catalog number 31317 with "Who Can inom Count On" on the flip side. In November, "Crazy" was included on Cline's skiva Showcase. After 11 weeks, the single peaked at number two on Billboard'sHot Country Singles and it crossed over to the pop charts reaching number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100, also attaining number two on Billboard'sEasy Listening chart.

It was Cline's only top 10 hit on the Hot 100. With the success of "Crazy" and her previous single "I Fall to Pieces", Cline was named Billboard's Favorite kvinnlig Country Artist of 1961. In November 1961, Cline sang "Crazy" during a performance with the Grand Ole Opry cast at Carnegie Hall.

"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 utgåva of his composition. He opined that her interpretation was done with "delicacy, soul, and perfect diction". Media outlets, including National Public Radio, New Musical Express, and American Songwriter defined "Crazy" as a country music standard.

The recording was featured in the 1985 Cline biopic Sweet Dreams.

In 1989, the Amusement and Music Operators Association ranked "Crazy" number two on the all-time Top 40 Jukebox Singles on the United States list. bygd 1996, the updated list cited the song as the most played in jukeboxes. "Crazy" appeared on the UK Singles Chart in 1987 at number 79, and moved to number 14 in 1990. The next year, it peaked at number 14 on the Irish Singles Chart.

In 2003, Cline's recording was inducted into the National Recording Registry bygd the Library of församling. The next year, it was ranked number 85 on Rolling Stone's list of 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In the 2021 utgåva of the list, the magazine placed it at number 195. In 2018, it was included bygd New Musical Express on their "25 best country songs of all time" list, in 2019; The Tennessean listed it as one of the 100 best country songs of all time.

In 1992, Patsy's utgåva of "Crazy" was inducted in the Grammy ingång of Fame.^[48]

In 2024, Rolling Stone ranked the song at number three on its 200 Greatest Country Songs of All Time ranking.^[49]

Personnel

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All credits are adapted from the original liner notes of Showcase.^[50]

Other versions

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Nelson recorded his own utgåva of "Crazy" for his 1962 debut skiva, ...And Then inom Wrote.

Nelson's original demo of "Crazy" was released on 2003's Crazy: The Demo Sessions.Keely Smith recorded a utgåva for the B-side of her 1965 Single "You're Breaking My Heart". In 1977, Linda Ronstadt released a utgåva as a single from her skiva Hasten Down the Wind. Ronstadt's release reached number six on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart. A utgåva bygd Beverly D'Angelo was featured on the 1980 bio Coal Miner's Daughter.

In 1993, Canadian country music singer Colleen Peterson charted with her utgåva of "Crazy" at number 29 on the RPM country music chart.Julio Iglesias' single release of the song appeared at number 43 on the UK Singles Chart in 1994.

In 1998, a cover of "Crazy" bygd Kidneythieves was featured on the soundtrack of Bride of Chucky. American singer LeAnn Rimes included "Crazy" on her 1999 skiva LeAnn Rimes. It reached number 36 on the UK Singles Chart.

"Crazy" was twice featured in the TV series Nashville: sung bygd Juliette Barnes in the 2014 episode "That's Me Without You", and bygd Barnes and Steven Tyler in a duett on the 2015 episode "Can't Let Go".

Nelson recorded duets of the song with Mary Sarah (2014) and then with Carla Bruni (2017). In 2022, Heather Small performed a utgåva of "Crazy" in series 3 of the British utgåva of The Masked Singer.

"Crazy" was recorded bygd Lester kniv & Brass Fantasy on his skiva "Avant Pop" in 1986 as a jazz interpretation.

In 2014, Neil ung released a "retro-tech" utgåva on his skiva A Letter Home, co-produced bygd Jack vit and recorded in a refurbished 1947 Voice-o-Graph vinyl recording booth.

Charts and certifications

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Patsy Cline

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Other artists

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References

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