However, Cline's producer, Owen Bradley, loved the song and arranged it in the ballad form in which it was later recorded. Dick took the track home and played it for Cline, who absolutely hated it at first because Nelson's demo "spoke" the lyrics ahead of and behind the beat, about which an annoyed Cline remarked that she "couldn't sing like that". 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 No. 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, immediately became another huge hit for Cline and widened the crossover audience she had established with her prior hits. She picked it as a follow-up to her previous big hit "I Fall to Pieces". Patsy Cline was already a country music superstar and looking for material to extend a string of hits. 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 who turned it down for the same reason Roy Drusky turned down " I Fall to Pieces" the previous year - that it was "a girl's song". With some help from a friend named Oliver English, 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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