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 have been produced, including "Sweet Dreams Still: The Live Collection," "The Real Patsy Cline" and "Remembering Patsy." The latter was re-edited and used on the show "Biography" on the A&E Cable Channel in the mid-1990s. Ten years after "Sweet Dreams", Patsy was portrayed again in "Big Dreams and Broken Hearts: The Dottie West Story," a 1995 CBS made-for-TV movie featuring Tere Myers as Patsy and Michelle Lee as Dottie. In 2007, a biopic entitled Crazy, about the life of Hank Garland, lead guitarist on many of Patsy's records, featured Mandy Barnett of "Always ... Patsy Cline" fame as Patsy. "A