hypersongs

Crazy Love

Written by Rusty Young in about half an hour and released in January 1979.
Poco, from Legend (1979)

Young wrote it living in Los Angeles while paneling a wall at his house, in roughly thirty minutes per a 2012 recollection and a 2013 Pollstar interview. The wordless Ooh, ooh, Ahhhh haaa chorus hook was meant to be replaced by lyrics, but the musicians told him to keep it. He told Pollstar that when the label heard it they said, that's a hit record, go make an album for us, and that he was never comfortable with the song until everyone told him it was OK. It runs 2:55 and the B-side is "Barbados". One third-party site calls it about a faded memory of a past love; we found no quote from Young on the meaning. We could not tell whether our upload is the studio, a live version or the 2018 re-recording.

Sources

  1. Crazy Love (Poco song), Wikipedia
  2. Poco, Wikipedia
  3. Rusty Young interview, Pollstar (2013)