The biggest and only Top 20 hit by a group whose roots is in the ‘60s in Buffalo Springfield and is still considered one of the iconic country/folk rock bands.
From their successful album Legend which was released in 1978 during one of their many breakups.
[Verse 1]
Tonight I'm gonna break away
Just you wait and see
I'll never be imprisoned by
A faded memory
[Verse 2]
Just when I think I'm over her
This broken heart will mend
I hear her name and I have to cry
The tears come down again
[Chorus]
It happens all the time
This crazy love of mine
Wraps around my heart
Refusin' to unwind
Ooh-hoo, crazy love
Ah ha
[Verse 3]
Count the stars in a summer sky
That fall without a sound
And then pretend that you can't hear
These teardrops comin' down
[Chorus]
It happens all the time
This crazy love of mine
Wraps around my heart
Refusin' to unwind
Ooh-hoo, crazy love
Ah ha
[Verse 4]
Tonight I'm gonna break away
Just you wait and see
I'll never be imprisoned by
A faded memory
[Chorus]
It happens all the time
This crazy love of mine
Wraps around my heart
Refusin' to unwind
Ooh-hoo, crazy love
Ah ha
[Outro]
Tonight I'm gonna break away...
Crazy Love was written by Rusty Young.
Crazy Love was produced by Richard Sanford Orshoff.
I was paneling a wall and looking out over the valley in L.A. and the chorus came into my head. I told the [other Poco members] don’t worry about the ‘Ooh, ooh, Ahhhh haaa’ part, I can find words for that. And they said, ‘Don’t do that, that’s the way it’s supposed to be.’“
–Rusty Young