Crazy (Willie Nelson song) Crazy (Willie Nelson song) "Crazy" is a ballad composed by Willie Nelson. It has been recorded by several artists, most notably by Patsy Cline, whose version was a No. 2 country hit in 1962. Partly due to the genre-blending nature of the song, it has been covered by dozens of artists in several genres over the years; nevertheless, the song remains inextricably linked with Cline. Nelson's own version appears on his 1962 debut album "...And Then I Wrote". With some help from a friend named Oliver English, Nelson wrote the song in early 1961; at the time he was a
Patsy Cline Ellis Nassour's 1981 "Patsy Cline: An Intimate Biography," the reviewer gives high praise to Nassour for his research in recreating events leading up to the crash and the crash itself. In the 2008 revised edition [Chicago Review Press, 2008] of Nassour's second biography, "Honky Tonk Angel: The Intimate Story of Patsy Cline" [1993, St. Martin's Press], Nassour includes further documentation obtained from the official CAB (Civil Aeronautics Board) report on the crash, which is kept at the regional office of the National Archives in Atlanta, Georgia. "Sweet Dreams" was a modest hit and Lange was nominated for an Academy Award