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Patsy Cline — Crazy
Album: 12 Greatest Hits
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Released: 1957
Length: 2:41
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Crazy
I'm crazy for feeling so lonely
I'm crazy
Crazy for feeling so blue

I knew
You'd love me as long as you wanted
And then some day
You'd leave me for somebody new

Worry
Why do I let myself worry?
Wondering
What in the world did I do?

Oh, crazy
For thinking that my love could hold you
I'm crazy for trying
And crazy for crying
And I'm crazy for loving you

Crazy
For thinking that my love could hold you
I'm crazy for trying
And crazy for crying
And I'm crazy for loving you
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Patsy Cline does not get played enough here!  Love this song
Posted 2 months ago by gratefulgator    [ Reply ]
 flyboy wrote:

This is a song that takes me instantly to a time and place.  Summer of 1990 at the family ranch in Wyoming when I was 11-12.  My uncle had a Toyota pickup and he let me drive it on the three mile dirt road out to the main road whenever we went somewhere.  He had Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits on cassette permanently stuck in the tape deck that summer.  Crazy seemed to always be playing when we were crossing One Mile creek on the road.  I was feeling pretty big getting to drive.


Cool story. Thank You for sharing it!
Posted 10 months ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
 On_The_Beach wrote:

Dare I say . . . . . . . . . . . . Perfect.




I Agree Completely!  Thanx RP!   
Posted 1 year ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
Dare I say . . . . . . . . . . . . Perfect.
Posted 1 year ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
 unclehud wrote:

Her voice is so clear, so pure, and spot on the note.  Makes me wonder if this was remastered or something; 1957 recordings couldn't have been this good ... could they?




YES!  It sounds as if she was singing through a German made, Neumann condenser microphone, which had just started to be used in Nashville & Memphis at that time. Prior to that, the studios were using RCA ribbon microphones that were developed in the 1930s by the legendary design engineer, Harry Olson. The Neumann  mics were much cleaner & accurate than ribbon mics. Neumann mics are still being used today, The RCAs were phased out by the  early to mid '60s.
Posted 2 years ago by eileenomurphy    [ Reply ]
Her voice is so clear, so pure, and spot on the note.  Makes me wonder if this was remastered or something; 1957 recordings couldn't have been this good ... could they?
Posted 2 years ago by unclehud    [ Reply ]
Everyone in my smoky dive bar loves this song. We be drinking and swaying.
Put another quarter in the juke box.
Posted 2 years ago by drewd    [ Reply ]
This is a song that takes me instantly to a time and place.  Summer of 1990 at the family ranch in Wyoming when I was 11-12.  My uncle had a Toyota pickup and he let me drive it on the three mile dirt road out to the main road whenever we went somewhere.  He had Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits on cassette permanently stuck in the tape deck that summer.  Crazy seemed to always be playing when we were crossing One Mile creek on the road.  I was feeling pretty big getting to drive.
Posted 2 years ago by flyboy    [ Reply ]
I've already rated it 10. I'd bump it if it was possible.
She had one of the best voices in the business EVER.
So sad she was taken so early. 
Posted 2 years ago by agkagk    [ Reply ]
She recorded this with a couple cracked ribs. Fact.

She'd been in a car accident a few days before, but didn't cancel. She had heard Willie play his song, and tried to sing it like he did - with predictable results. Legendary producer Owen Bradley told her 'Sing it your way, not his.' Here's the result - perfection.
c.
Posted 2 years ago by cc_rider    [ Reply ]
Boxing world champion, Tyson Fury, The Gypsy King, recently gave this song new life !  Gotta love it
Posted 2 years ago by 1wolfy    [ Reply ]
 eyke wrote:

Any true music affectiano needs to have some Patsy in their collection




affect-piano?
Posted 3 years ago by springof63    [ Reply ]
I remember hearing Patsy's songs in the evening back in the 60's when us kids were supposed to be asleep. Mom & Dad, I guess a few adult beverages. They were always in a good mood the next morning. Patsy STILL gets to me!
Posted 3 years ago by tws    [ Reply ]
Any true music affectiano needs to have some Patsy in their collection
Posted 3 years ago by eyke    [ Reply ]
Losing her so young in a plane crash was the female version of losing Buddy Holly. She was impeccable... musical perfection. What might have been.
Posted 3 years ago by KeithBrofsky    [ Reply ]
Always reminds me of this wonderful movie from Québec "C.R.A.Z.Y"
Posted 3 years ago by PinkSo    [ Reply ]
Simple perfection
Died at 30? Terrible loss.
Posted 3 years ago by BonzoWiltsUK    [ Reply ]
 sajitjacob wrote:

Suddenly I'm 10, it's Christmas day and the smell of my mum's dessicated turkey fills the house.

Hahaha great comment. I smell Mexican food as Patsy was always playing at the end of my Thursday shifts at Hermanos - wonderful lady with an incredible voice!

Posted 3 years ago by xcranky_yankee    [ Reply ]
Happy birthday, Willie! Thanks for writing this. Patsy nailed it, didn't she? (April 29, 1933)
Posted 3 years ago by Ok_Sobriquet    [ Reply ]
No plays in last 30 days, and my comment is the first in 3 years...
Posted 3 years ago by mrtuba9    [ Reply ]
NICE segue.
Posted 7 years ago by ListeningSpider    [ Reply ]
LOVE THIS on a cold, snowy night! I'm not sure anybody does it better, but I delight in Norah, Neko, Caro, Melody, and Madeleine, too.
Posted 7 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
 buddy wrote:
The real deal.....Willie's song and Patsy's interpretation.

 

yes.....
Posted 8 years ago by zunismyst    [ Reply ]
 Skydog wrote:
10

 
For sure!
Posted 8 years ago by AbileneTexas    [ Reply ]
The real deal.....Willie's song and Patsy's interpretation.
Posted 8 years ago by buddy    [ Reply ]
You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen,
you know Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen,
But do you recall
The most famous reindeer of all...
Posted 8 years ago by rpdevotee    [ Reply ]
And next should be "Crazy" by Seal. My favorite Seal song!   
Posted 8 years ago by Paralistener    [ Reply ]
10
Posted 8 years ago by Skydog    [ Reply ]
One of the best singers of the last century. 
Posted 8 years ago by CaptainConnector    [ Reply ]
Okay, so this makes up for the Shawn Colvin "Crazy."
Posted 8 years ago by Webfoot    [ Reply ]
Pasty mine. Precious. 
Posted 8 years ago by CaptainConnector    [ Reply ]
 Ahnyer_Keester wrote:
Crazy by Shawn Colvin. Crazy by Patsy Cline.

Will the next song be Crazy Train by Ozzy? Standing by. 

 
Patsy's much better than Shawn.
Posted 8 years ago by flyboy    [ Reply ]
Yay for Patsy... don't hear nearly enough of her on here!
Posted 8 years ago by gratefulgator    [ Reply ]
Perfection.
Posted 8 years ago by GTT    [ Reply ]
 Ahnyer_Keester wrote:
Crazy by Shawn Colvin. Crazy by Patsy Cline.

Will the next song be Crazy Train by Ozzy? Standing by. 

 
+1 same two (so far) today!
Posted 8 years ago by BBoyes    [ Reply ]
Crazy by Shawn Colvin. Crazy by Patsy Cline.

Will the next song be Crazy Train by Ozzy? Standing by. 
Posted 8 years ago by Ahnyer_Keester    [ Reply ]
What a song...
Posted 8 years ago by smf    [ Reply ]
Sweet!!!!!{#Exclaim}
Posted 9 years ago by rmaple53    [ Reply ]
Damn Willie writes em good!
Posted 9 years ago by ziggytrix    [ Reply ]
Willie and Patsy....perfect...
 
Posted 9 years ago by hempmandan    [ Reply ]
Crazy Train NEXT!!!!  Do it!
Posted 9 years ago by Dyn0hub    [ Reply ]
calypsus_1 wrote:


Patsy Cline - Crazy   ==>    Madeleine Peyroux - California Raining    ==>     Bob Dylan - Buckets of Rain    ==>    Neil Young - One of These Days


— very very good sequence! 




 TerryS wrote:

Hopefully we're in the sequence right now
Well, before I could post we segued into The New Pornographers........must have been the eclipse last night altering the warp.

 

:-))


Posted 9 years ago by calypsus_1    [ Reply ]
"She wore Blue Crazy Velvet. . . " enter Frank, and his Pabst Blue Ribbon....
Patsy covers Willy.
Posted 9 years ago by gjeeg    [ Reply ]
Love it.  please follow it with Crazy Train by Ozzy next time! =)
Posted 10 years ago by Dyn0hub    [ Reply ]
Long ago, I knew a man who worked with me on the freight docs, Milne Truck Lines, who OFTEN sang this song aloud while working.  It will always remind me of him. {#Cheers}
Posted 10 years ago by 1wolfy    [ Reply ]
Love this timeless Willie Nelson penned track from the immortal Patsy Cline.

I used to sing this to my ex-wife all the time.  She didn't appreciate it. 
Posted 10 years ago by lemmoth    [ Reply ]
Crazy to crazy.  Nice transition Bill!  Time to send support.
Posted 10 years ago by Webfoot    [ Reply ]
Hard to believe she died at just 30.  She seems so timeless..
Posted 10 years ago by tkosh    [ Reply ]
{#Propeller}
Posted 10 years ago by Antigone    [ Reply ]
Patsy will live for as long as people can hear magic.........and thank you Willie for giving her this......
Posted 10 years ago by oldfart48    [ Reply ]
 Hannio wrote:
Love that tinkly cocktail lounge piano.

 
Yes, that is a cool sound.  Floyd Cramer was one of the innovators of that style; it's possible he's playing on this track.
Posted 10 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
Patsy Cline always makes me want to go to a diner and order the blue plate special with a cup of joe.  It just seems like the thing to do.
Posted 10 years ago by Theotis    [ Reply ]
Shawn Colvin - Crazy
Patsy Cline - Crazy

Bill, you're a genius. 
Posted 10 years ago by aaronm    [ Reply ]
what a voice... {#Smile}
Posted 10 years ago by moodfood    [ Reply ]
Why I love RP
Posted 10 years ago by ScottN    [ Reply ]
 unclehud wrote:
Wikipedia says Ms. Cline hit #2 with this tune in 1962.  This, and Frank Sinatra, and Dean Martin, make me wonder if casual love affairs were as commonplace 'back in the day' as they were in the '60s, or as everyday as they seem to be now.

Anybody else wonder about that stuff?

(The song's a 9, minimum, but nobody wonders about that.)

 
THAT #2 WAS A CROSS OVER FROM THE COUNTRY CHARTS, ONE OF THE FIRST EVER TUNES TO HIT ROCK, COUNTRY AND POP ALL AT THE SAME TIME, SHE WAS A GODDES OF SONG. BEATEN, ABUSED AND THE BEST BLUES VOICE TO NEVER BE CALLED A BLUES SINGER. WHEN SHE HEALED ENOUGH TO DO THIS RECORDING AFTER A " CAR WRECK " YOU CAN HEAR THE TEARS.......{#Notworthy}           ( and sex  {outside "marrage" } is what folks have been doing from day three )
Posted 11 years ago by oldfart48    [ Reply ]
if it were possible this should be a 100....Willies best , sung by Americas best......{#Sunny}
Posted 11 years ago by oldfart48    [ Reply ]
for all of the heartbroken.......... and want to be heartbroken.........


10 in any language or era 
Posted 11 years ago by gjr    [ Reply ]
Wikipedia says Ms. Cline hit #2 with this tune in 1962.  This, and Frank Sinatra, and Dean Martin, make me wonder if casual love affairs were as commonplace 'back in the day' as they were in the '60s, or as everyday as they seem to be now.

Anybody else wonder about that stuff?

(The song's a 9, minimum, but nobody wonders about that.)
Posted 11 years ago by unclehud    [ Reply ]
Some nice classic Sunday lounging tunes rolling through the wires on RP today!
Posted 11 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
 d-don wrote:
Timeless. {#Clap}
 

Yes, this song will be marvelous forever...  hope you are having a good time right this minute...  time flies when we're having fun...

 
Posted 11 years ago by Lazarus    [ Reply ]
I generally dislike country music -

But this is a 10 for sure.
Posted 11 years ago by kaviksdad    [ Reply ]
A perfect piece of pop art.
Posted 11 years ago by black321    [ Reply ]
Suddenly I'm 10, it's Christmas day and the smell of my mum's dessicated turkey fills the house.
Posted 11 years ago by sajitjacob    [ Reply ]
Total ear candy!

Posted 11 years ago by jimbaca    [ Reply ]
Beautiful..

I just watched Coal Miner's Daughter last night... What a fantastic movie...
Posted 11 years ago by shellbella    [ Reply ]
favorite of Ross Perot.... nuf sed?
Posted 11 years ago by MinMan    [ Reply ]
You're crazy for playing this song!  Like a fox . . . . AH HAH HAH HAH!     {#Cheers}

This has GOT to be one of the top 50 popular songs of all time!

Even the Willie Nelson version deserves some air time once in a while! 
Posted 11 years ago by mikec09    [ Reply ]
aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! nothing better than a bit of the best.
Posted 11 years ago by oldfart48    [ Reply ]
Still as good as the first time I heard it in '61.  A rare 10 from me.
Posted 11 years ago by Andy_B    [ Reply ]
Thanks, Bill.  I asked for it a couple of days back and here it is.  Good on ya.  Patsy's still unmatched.
Posted 12 years ago by joelbb    [ Reply ]
Crazy good!
Posted 12 years ago by jen3005545    [ Reply ]
...hey,bill...what´s up?..
-Shawn Colvin - Crazy
-Patsy Cline - Crazy
.you´re crazy today?......{#Doh}
 

Posted 12 years ago by rockpommel16    [ Reply ]
..the voice, the lyrics, the tuneage, the story..RP should up-tick
  any votes <10 (just sayin').. 
Posted 12 years ago by cShaggy    [ Reply ]
Divine. Crazy divine.
Posted 12 years ago by jadewahoo    [ Reply ]
I love you, Patsy!
Posted 12 years ago by iam_overlord    [ Reply ]
Love that tinkly cocktail lounge piano.
Posted 12 years ago by Hannio    [ Reply ]
Beautiful... 
Posted 12 years ago by shellbella    [ Reply ]
Back to back Crazy, Keep the streak going!
Posted 12 years ago by Bacadiar    [ Reply ]
Ok, Bill, now you're just making me fall in love with RP all over again. {#Hearteyes}
Posted 12 years ago by MsJudi    [ Reply ]
Some music is simply timeless - little wonder we're hearing it here on RP
 
perikleshokie wrote:
46 here - brought up on Led Zep and ELP, but when I first heard Patsy (in the mid 90s) my jaw literally dropped.  The entire Greatest Hits album is fantastic.  This is a timeless masterpiece - by Willie no less.
 


Posted 12 years ago by jchap5    [ Reply ]
Classic and wonderful.....


Posted 12 years ago by Shesdifferent    [ Reply ]
I just doesnt get any better than this.  I have to stop in my tracks and just listen.
Posted 12 years ago by oufason    [ Reply ]
Thank you Bill....  You are a love for playing this number...  ;-)
Posted 12 years ago by Suzl    [ Reply ]
Fucking Ross Perot nearly ruined this song for me. (Asshole.) Hats off to Patsy and song writer, Willie Nelson.
Posted 12 years ago by dwlangham    [ Reply ]
Bill, what kind of crazy theme kick are you on?
Posted 12 years ago by ThePoose    [ Reply ]
After much thought and analysis... YES!


Posted 12 years ago by SpamNRice    [ Reply ]
46 here - brought up on Led Zep and ELP, but when I first heard Patsy (in the mid 90s) my jaw literally dropped.  The entire Greatest Hits album is fantastic.  This is a timeless masterpiece - by Willie no less.
Posted 12 years ago by perikleshokie    [ Reply ]
 Stingray wrote:
431 votes for a 10 confirms the medium-age of RP-listeners.
Should be anything between 58 and 75!
 
33 and I think that this is outstanding.  Patsy is an amazing performer.

Posted 12 years ago by Byronape    [ Reply ]
Timeless. {#Clap}
Posted 12 years ago by d-don    [ Reply ]
This is AWESOME!!!!!!  Thanks for the change up Bill!{#Clap}  (And I'm Under 40)

Posted 12 years ago by obstetricus    [ Reply ]
Ohhhhh.  Ok, I can do a 10 and not for a minute feel like a gushy fan.  Just the facts.  Patsy and Willie forever. {#Hug}
Posted 13 years ago by LizK    [ Reply ]
War... War never changes.
Posted 13 years ago by ssg    [ Reply ]
 Stingray wrote:
431 votes for a 10 confirms the medium-age of RP-listeners.
Should be anything between 58 and 75!
 
And performing all of that analysis places you in at least the 45+ range.
Posted 13 years ago by gemtag    [ Reply ]
 Stingray wrote:
431 votes for a 10 confirms the medium-age of RP-listeners.
Should be anything between 58 and 75!
 
Funny, not true (maybe a tinge of truth) - but pretty funny!

Posted 13 years ago by Dave_K    [ Reply ]
 ziggytrix wrote:

He sure can write 'em!  His "cover" version (I think he wrote this for Patsy) is pretty good, too.

 

I read somewhere that Patsy hated this song when she first heard it and did not want to record it, and this was years before Willie's solo performing career took off. He had a tough time selling it because it was not the formula CW sound, i mean check out the chord progression sometime!  It was a manager or producer that actually warmed her up to the tune...the rest, as they say, is musical history.


Posted 13 years ago by OneSpyGirl    [ Reply ]
Wow, can you say  "mel·an·chol·y"     Noun: A deep, pensive, and long-lasting sadness
Posted 13 years ago by DanFHiggins    [ Reply ]
431 votes for a 10 confirms the medium-age of RP-listeners.
Should be anything between 58 and 75!
Posted 13 years ago by Stingray    [ Reply ]
Posted: Apr 26, 2011 - 12:18 < Reply >
 sirdroseph wrote:
Shaun Colvin - Crazy to Patsy Cline - Crazy.   Man! Talk about going from the outhouse to the penthouse!{#Lol} 10!
  
seriously!

HERE HERE!

 

Posted 13 years ago by ckcotton    [ Reply ]
RP rocks,....sometimes!
Posted 13 years ago by Stingray    [ Reply ]
{#Cheers}
Posted 13 years ago by Deadwing    [ Reply ]
 sandpebble wrote:
Props to Willie!!!
 
He sure can write 'em!  His "cover" version (I think he wrote this for Patsy) is pretty good, too.

Posted 13 years ago by ziggytrix    [ Reply ]
Props to Willie!!!
Posted 13 years ago by sandpebble    [ Reply ]
Aaaaah, my theme song. {#Propeller}
Posted 13 years ago by GeneP59    [ Reply ]
 sirdroseph wrote:
Shaun Colvin - Crazy to Patsy Cline - Crazy.   Man! Talk about going from the outhouse to the penthouse!{#Lol} 10!
 
seriously!

Posted 13 years ago by K_Love    [ Reply ]
Shaun Colvin - Crazy to Patsy Cline - Crazy.   Man! Talk about going from the outhouse to the penthouse!{#Lol} 10!
Posted 13 years ago by sirdroseph    [ Reply ]
 Proclivities wrote:


A lot of album covers looked like that in those days.  "Commercial artists", as they were then called, weren't paid very much back then either.
 
We still don't.

{#Whipit}
Posted 13 years ago by perryandcaro    [ Reply ]
 Cynaera wrote:
This is THE best slow-dance song in the whole world. You can cling to the person with whom you're dancing, and you don't have to do anything except sway...  Patsy Cline is a goddess.
 


Posted 13 years ago by K_Love    [ Reply ]
 calypsus_1 wrote:


Patsy Cline - Crazy   ==>    Madeleine Peyroux - California Raining    ==>     Bob Dylan - Buckets of Rain    ==>    Neil Young - One of These Days


— very very good sequence! 

.

 
Hopefully we're in the sequence right now
Well, before I could post we segued into The New Pornographers........must have been the eclipse last night altering the warp.

Posted 13 years ago by TerryS    [ Reply ]
This is THE best slow-dance song in the whole world. You can cling to the person with whom you're dancing, and you don't have to do anything except sway...  Patsy Cline is a goddess.
Posted 13 years ago by Cynaera    [ Reply ]
 Proclivities wrote:


A lot of album covers looked like that in those days.  "Commercial artists", as they were then called, weren't paid very much back then either.
 
1967. Yeah dig those crazy fonts! Here's their cover for the same disc, circa 1990: Equally dated but at least they had some idea of who the singer was.
 

 
Edit: On the green cover I see Souvenir (on "Sweet Dreams"), which was (re)released in 1967 so the label certainly did have access to top-shelf design. It's just an unfortunate example of what happens when a designer gets a crapload of new fonts to play with!

Posted 13 years ago by ScottFromWyoming    [ Reply ]
I'll add my 10 to this party, 110% proof, by the way.  Patsy, the Goddess.
Posted 14 years ago by Rooney    [ Reply ]
 lophrequa wrote:
apparently a graphic designer was unavailable when they put together this album cover so a colorblind monkey was brought in for novelty
 

A lot of album covers looked like that in those days.  "Commercial artists", as they were then called, weren't paid very much back then either.
Posted 14 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
 bachbeet wrote:
I'm not really a C&W fan but I do like Patsy, Hank Williams (So Lonesome I Could Cry, etc), and one or two others.
Patsy Cline was, during her music career, in the rock 'n roll genre. It was only later that she was adopted (co-opted?) as a darling of C&W.


Posted 14 years ago by jadewahoo    [ Reply ]
 MojoJojo wrote:

Hold still...
 
Use a mini-gun.  Then it really doesn't matter what he does.
Posted 14 years ago by AvoidingWork    [ Reply ]
A voice that can open the wounds of the heart decades after they were thought to be healed. And I mean that in a good way...
Posted 14 years ago by jadewahoo    [ Reply ]
Patsy Cline SLAYS me!!  {#Cry}  {#Notworthy}
Posted 14 years ago by LowPhreak    [ Reply ]
Willie sure can write a song!!
Posted 14 years ago by sandpebble    [ Reply ]
I'm in love all over again!
Posted 14 years ago by ziakut    [ Reply ]
 ilibjorn wrote:
8.7  ?   just shoot me.  
 
Hold still...
Posted 14 years ago by MojoJojo    [ Reply ]