Three Chords and The Truth:: Essential Country Music Songs: “Crazy”- Patsy Cline. Written by the great Willie Nelson back when he was a young up and coming songwriter. He originally called it “Stupid”, I wonder if it would have made it with that title? “Crazy” is much better. It would appear on Willie’s debut album in 1962 “And Then I Wrote” but will always be remembered as a Patsy Cline classic. Cline was an established star when she recorded it in 1961 having had a #1 in “I Fall To Pieces”- “Crazy” peaked at #2. Nelson would later say that the favorite cover of any of this songs by another artist was this one by Patsy Cline. It was also a pop hit- her biggest pop hit peaking at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100. A number of other artists have covered it over the years -from LeAnn Rimes, to Neil Young but this is Patsy Cline’s song. Patsy Cline would die tragically in a plane crash in 1963 at the age of 30.
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It’s my go-to karaoke song. Stupid, but I love it (Crazy is better).
He made the better choice- i’d rather be crazy- than stupid!
Of course!
Cline could have made ‘Stupid’ work. I like it and I more than like Patsy. Her voice does it dos me. One of the best in my record pile.
What a terrible loss at 30 years old.
She definitely had more music in her.
What a voice she had. It is amazing how many musical artists lost their lives in the 50’s 60’s and 70.s.
Oh my gosh only 30? 😦
i think her best was still yet to come
A true classic! And literally how crazy is it that here we have another artist whose life was cut short by a plane crash!
last month flying to Texas with friends- one said to me how he hated flying and always thought of the rock stars who died in plane crashes [the cause of his fear of flying- and I mentioned how the majority of those were in the 50’s to 70’s–who is the last rock star to die in an aviation crash? Stevie Ray? Glad that is largely a thing of the past.
You’re right. The only other such accident I remember after Stevie Ray Vaughan was John Denver in 1997. Though that crash happened during a hobby flight, not while being on the road, so I guess it was different.
I had forgotten Denver– can’t think of anyone else..