Song Lyric Sunday was created by Helen Vahdati from This Thing Called Life One Word at a Time and author Jim Adams from A Unique Title For Me is our current guest host. For complete rules or to join in the fun, click here.

The theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week is “Crazy.”

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Many thanks to my daughter, Lindsey, visiting for the holidays with her husband, Erik, from Fort Riley, for choosing this selection for SLS.

Released March 15, 1989 from her album Good to Be Back, Miss You Like Crazy was a huge hit for Natalie Cole, becoming her fifth Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, where the song peaked at number 7. The song also topped both the R&B and adult contemporary charts in 1989.

The song is a moving ballad in which the singer describes how she is feeling lonely and is longing for the one she misses “like crazy” (or, in other words, very much).

FUN FACTS

• • Miss You Like Crazy is ranked as the 67th biggest US hit of 1989.
  •  In the 1990s, Natalie sang traditional pop by her father, resulting in her biggest success, Unforgettable… with Love, which sold over seven million copies and won her seven Grammy Awards.
  • Cole’s debut album, Inseparable, had songs that reminded some listeners of Aretha Franklin. The media’s billing of Cole as the “new Aretha Franklin” started a rivalry between the two singers. The feud boiled over at the 1976 Grammy Awards when Cole beat Franklin in the Best Female R&B Vocal Performance category, a category which Franklin had won eight times before losing to Cole.
  • Natalie Cole recorded 23 studio albums, 2 live albums, received 21 Grammy nominations–winning 9–and sold more than 30 million records worldwide before her death from congestive heart failure at the age of 65 December 31, 2015.

The video is the official video for Miss You Like Crazy.

Enjoy and Happy New Year!

See my Song Lyric Sunday selection for Nesie’s Place!

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