Summary
"It's the kind of music that makes you feel like you're just hurting so good"
People of different ages reflect on why the pop country classic 'Crazy' made famous by Patsy Cline brings out such strong emotions in them.
Featuring a young woman mourning the loss of a father's love after divorce - and broadcaster Fiona Phillips reflects on losing her father to Alzheimer's disease.
87 year old Wayne Rethford met Patsy Cline in 1961 and two years later happened upon the crash site where she died after her plane came down in a heavy storm in Tennessee.
"That music becomes embedded in your soul" he says.
Series about pieces of music with a powerful emotional impact
Producer: Maggie Ayre
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2014.
Transcript
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| 0:27.0 | The Traitors Uncloaked. |
| 0:28.3 | Watch on EyePlayer, listen for more on BBC Sounds. It's what I would call drinking music. |
| 0:43.4 | We're sitting at the bar, drinking their scotch, drinking their beer, kind of nursing their sorrows. |
| 0:49.7 | It's the kind of song that makes people feel like they're just hurting so good. |
| 1:08.8 | Yeah. the kind of song that makes people feel like they're just hurting so good crazy I'm crazy for feeling |
| 1:13.6 | So lonely |
| 1:15.6 | I'm crazy for feeling so I knew |
| 1:29.3 | I knew |
| 1:33.3 | you'd love me |
| 1:38.3 | as long as you wanted |
| 1:42.3 | and then My name's My name is My name is |
| 1:56.0 | Gus Sanchez. |
| 1:57.0 | I live in Charlotte, North Carolina. |
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