Another story has it that Cline tried to record the song for hours one night with no success. Still recovering from a recent automobile accident that nearly took her life, Cline had difficulty reaching the high notes of the song at first due to her broken ribs, so she came back the next day to record the vocal, which she did in one take. Cline's producer, Owen Bradley, loved the song and arranged it as the ballad it was recorded as. Dick took the track home and played it for Cline, who absolutely hated it at first because Nelson's demo "spoke" the lyrics to a faster tempo than what Cline later recorded as a ballad.
Nelson met Cline's husband, Charlie Dick, at the bar one evening and pitched the song to him. Īccording to the Ellis Nassour biography Patsy Cline, Nelson, who at that time was known as a struggling songwriter by the name of Hugh Nelson, was a regular at Tootsie's Orchid Lounge on Nashville's Music Row, where he frequented with friends Kris Kristofferson and Roger Miller, both unknown songwriters at that time. Cline's version is #85 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It spent 21 weeks on the chart and eventually became one of her signature tunes. "Crazy", its complex melody suiting Cline's vocal talent perfectly, was released in late 1961 and immediately became another huge hit for Cline and widened the crossover audience she had established with her prior hits. Patsy Cline, who was already a country music superstar and working to extend a string of hits, picked it as a follow up to her previous big hit " I Fall to Pieces". The lyrics describe the singer's state of bemusement at the singer's own helpless love for the object of his affection. Musically the song is a jazz-pop ballad with country overtones and a complex melody.
The song's eventual success helped launch Nelson as a performer as well as a songwriter. Nelson originally wrote the song for country singer Billy Walker, but Walker turned it down. Nelson wrote the song in early 1961 at the time he was a journeyman singer-songwriter who had written several hits for other artists but had not yet had a significant recording of his own.
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