Another from the Michelle Archives.....this is one more on the late great Patsy Cline..
There is some controversy regarding Cline and her recording of .... "Crazy"......which is one of her ...if not her......signature song.
Willie 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. 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" (another signature Patsy Cline song!) the previous year - that it was "a girl's song". The song's eventual success helped launch Williy Nelson's as a performer as well as a songwriter and is one of those few songs in history that we seem to always identify TWO different performers.
Cline also had issues with the song though....as only Patsy could...
Cline was already a superstar by this time and the song was proposed to her as a follow-up to "I Fall To Pieces"......another song of hers that I love. The story is fascinating....
Willy 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. Nelson met Cline's husband, Charlie Dick, at the bar one evening and pitched the song to him. 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 shit". Patsy was always considered one of the boys and had a legendary mouth.....LOL
Patsy gave it a try after prodding from her manager Owen Bradley and after 4 takes and much griping by Cline regarding the high notes...she finally recorded the song we have come to love....and thank God for it
So here we go....the song that is #85 on Rolling Stones Greatest Songs of All Time List.....from 1961....its Patsy Cline.....and....."Crazy"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QEDb3xzdecThis one's for Mckenzie......I love you...