I Guess I'm Crazy Explained
| I Guess I'm Crazy |
| Cover: | I Guess I'm Crazy album cover.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Jim Reeves |
| Album: | The Best 2 |
| B-Side: | Not Until the Next Time |
| Released: | June 1964 |
| Recorded: | 1955 |
| Genre: | Country |
| Label: | RCA |
| Producer: | Chet Atkins |
| Prev Title: | Love Is No Excuse |
| Prev Year: | 1964 |
| Next Title: | I Won't Forget You |
| Next Year: | 1965 |
"I Guess I'm Crazy" is a 1955 song composed by Werly Fairburn. The song was first recorded in 1955 by Tommy Collins who peaked at number thirteen on the C&W Best Seller chart.[1]
Jim Reeves version
- In 1964, Jim Reeves had his first of six posthumous number one hits on the U.S. country music chart with his version of "I Guess I'm Crazy", which spent seven weeks at the top and a total of twenty-four weeks on the chart.[2] On the Easy Listening charts it peaked at number eighteen.[3] "I Guess I'm Crazy" also topped the Canadian charts for a single week, making this song to be the first song ever to top the newly formed RPM Country charts in Canada.
Chart performance
Jim Reeves
| Chart (1964) | Peak
position |
|---|
| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Easy Listening Singles | 17 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 82 |
| Canadian RPM Country Tracks | 1 | |
Other Cover Versions
- It was later covered in April 1965 By Irish Country singer Larry Cunningham, and peaked #4 at the Irish charts.
Notes and References
- Book: Whitburn, Joel . The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 86.
- Book: Whitburn, Joel . The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 286.
- Book: Whitburn, Joel . Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Joel Whitburn . 2002 . Record Research . 202.
