Crazy on You
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| Single by Heart from the album Dreamboat Annie |
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| B-side | "Dreamboat Annie" | ||||||||||
| Released | 1976 | ||||||||||
| Format | 7" single | ||||||||||
| Recorded | August 1975 | ||||||||||
| Genre | Hard rock | ||||||||||
| Length | 4:54 | ||||||||||
| Label | Mushroom Records | ||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Ann Wilson Nancy Wilson |
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| Producer | Mike Flicker | ||||||||||
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"Crazy on You" is the guitar-driven debut single from the female-fronted (Nancy and Ann Wilson) rock band Heart's debut album Dreamboat Annie, released in 1976. Starting with an acoustic guitar intro, the song grinds into fast-paced hard rock that was the signature sound of the band in their early years. "Crazy on You" attracted attention both for the relatively unusual combination of a virtuoso acoustic guitar paired with a hard-driving electric guitar, and the fact that the acoustic guitarist was a female - a rarity in rock music even today. According to co-writer/guitarist Nancy Wilson on an episode of In the Studio with Redbeard (which devoted an entire episode to the Dreamboat Annie album), the rapid acoustic rhythm part was inspired by The Moody Blues song "Question".
Loaded with sexual innuendo, the song's lyrics tell of a woman's desire to forget all the problems of the world during one night of lust and passion. According to Ann Wilson, the lyrics were written under the influence of mushrooms.
Issued by Canada's Mushroom Records, the song became Heart's first U.S. chart entry, peaking at number thirty-five on the Billboard Hot 100. Two years later, the single was re-released by Mushroom — this time reaching number sixty-two in the U.S. In the Netherlands it reached number two on the singles chart in March 1977. The single's B-side, "Dreamboat Annie", was later released on its own as an A-side.
Despite its modest chart placing in 1976, "Crazy on You" remains as one of Heart's signature tunes and is still a staple on U.S. classic rock radio stations.
[edit] Covers and appearances
- The song appears in the 1981 Ralph Bakshi film American Pop.
- You Can't Do That on Television uses samples of "Crazy on You" and "Magic Man" in the 1983 Classical Music episode.
- The soundtrack of the 1999 Sofia Coppola movie The Virgin Suicides features "Crazy on You" and "Magic Man". In the movie, "Crazy on You" is played in the first kiss scene between Lux Lisbon (Kirsten Dunst) and Trip Fontaine (Josh Hartnett).
- The soundtrack to the 2001 movie A Knight's Tale features "Crazy on You" although the song did not appear in the movie itself.
- The 2004 Eminem song "Crazy In Love" samples the chorus of "Crazy On You"
- "Crazy on You" is featured in the 2004 movie Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle.
- Heart performs "Crazy on You" in the season finale of the second season (2005) of the Showtime drama The L Word.
- "Crazy on You" is featured in the Shaun White snowboarding video "The White Album".
- "Crazy on You" is featured in the 2006 video game Guitar Hero II.
- "Crazy on You" is featured in the 2007 film Juno, and is mentioned in the credits. However, it does not appear on the soundtrack.
- Carly Smithson performed "Crazy On You" on Season 7 of American Idol during the top 20 performances. It was released for download from the iTunes store on February 28, 2008.
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