Sophomore in high school when this was out. I’m Black and I don’t care if people think I’m a nerd. I went to a predominantly White high school. Come to think of it, all my schools were predominantly White. I digress. Loved this song. Still do. The music, the lyrics, his timing. You can tell there were some strong, deep feelings that came from a place of pain.😢❤ Listening to this song as an adult is much more meaningful now. I’v been through some stuff and experiences that really make this song come alive. My favorite words are “That old feeling inside. Way deep down inside. I go crazy.” Can I get an amen?😊
I lost my love over 30 years ago. I would ask people about her, but it was like she just dropped off the face of the earth. This song always made me think of her, but here I am 68 and she is 70 and she just got in touch with me last night. I am happy just to hear from her and to know she is thinking about me. Remember to just hang on. You never know what is just around the corner.
@@musicman201047 We are still talking. She has moved a little further off and we are both having medical problems. We are trying to meet up somewhere before Christmas. We talk just about everyday now.
Try to imagine it: You're alone, driving your car. This song comes on the radio---it's just you, the wonderful intimacy of the vocals, the deeply poignant message, the lovely melancholy of the music. And if it should happen to be raining? You find yourself transported to one of those special places deep in the heart that only the greatest love songs ever take you to. Few songs are capable of that. This is one of them.
I've never been understood musically.. artistically..etc. I like what I feel through this one and it hit hard when I was a child hearing it then on the car radio..before stereo. Some memories stayed with me as if from later in my life. Puzzling me still today. Visions of a love I never knew and that destroyed them from the start, yet I see now how those visions became to be. Only pieces here and there throughout years. Recent events have almost put them all together within the tragedy of loss and painted skies of grey over deepest oceans blue eyes taken away by a darkness in the light. Ima dork.
This song reminds me of my Ex Wife.I have raised our Children since 2000,after many years of her not being in her life.We recently found out she has Cancer and does not have long to live.To my surprise she called and asked to see us.I got that feeling again when I saw her.She apologized for everything she had done to the kids,and to me.When I saw her all the anger I had inside of me left.I realized that I still shared some love for her,and that out of this love came our beautiful children.If you ever see this Janet thank you for giving me the two most important,beautiful,precious gifts a Father could ever dream about.
If this song doesn't mean anything to you, I feel so very sad and sorry for you. You've NEVER KNOWN TRUE LOVE - and LOST that SPECIAL PERSON ?? REALLY ?
I blink and I’m almost 50.. I was a kid listening to this as my parents listened to this (I now know why) and I miss those days. It seems like time speeds up as I get older. You blink and the time between this song and now is a heartbeat.
Every Saturday night ladies choice (ladies were all of 15yrs old) I Go Crazy would come on and I would look for the cutest boy in the roller-rink to "slow-skate" with!! What memories!!! I still love this song as much as I did in the late 70's!
Now all it takes is a pretty face. Great song writers like Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder, and Billy Joel would have had to give away their songs for a "hot guy" to sing them.
RIP Paul Davis. April 21, 1948-April 22, 2008. They certainly don't make music like this anymore. It's July 23, 2022 and I'm still loving this music just as much now as then. Especially now.
At 56 years old I remeber when these fabulous songs first hit the airwaves...and I still listen daily. Todays "music" can't hold a note to these master storytellers!
What a great song - from back when music was real and pure. No autotune or sampled, synthesized, computer generated crap, no laser lightshows, no corps of choreographed dancers - just the talent of the performers and the incredible music they created.
@@MRJ23490 Insane, there are some guys out there making some really beautiful hip hop. Madvillain - Great Day / Freddie Gibbs - Babies & Fools, go check those out and tell me they aren’t masters work
Hello!!! How are you doing today, please pardon me for intruding into your privacy but I just wanted to know if you’re a fan ? Have a great day…Stay Safe!
This reminds me of my only true love, my 1st wife, we married in 1985... she passed away in 2014 ... I'd give anything to see her 1 more time, I love you Sheryl...
Aww that's so sweet. I'm so sorry for your loss and hopefully one day ya'll will see each other again. I'm glad the two of you got a chance to experience love. God bless you
Aw. I'm sobbing. I'm so sorry for your loss. This song was one I would lament to when my first love in high school broke up with me. We later got back together but then he was in a car accident in 1979, the year I graduated, that left him comatose until he died in 2001. RIP Sheryl and Woody.
I',m 65 still listening to the great songs of yesterday I've told a lot of people I belong to the 50,60,,'s and 70', everything was so much better back in those days especially. the music,
I was only in the 8th grade when this song came out, but I rode this song as a young teenager as I would fantasize about falling in love. Like a brand new coloring book, my entire life was in front of me and all those pages waiting to be colored in! Almost 60 years later, the majority of those pages have been colored, some pages more beautiful than others. I feel so lucky to have been young and so alive when such great music was around! I honestly think it was THE best!
It was 1979, our junior high school dance. She was so beautiful, even though we never danced or touched, I'm not sure you even noticed me. I sang this song to you. Now, 45 years later, things are the same. We have never touched or danced, and you won't remember me if someone asked you, but I still think of you when I hear this song.
Every now and then I am 65 years old I listen to this song I would just love to sing this song on American idol this is still a great song and I really love it just so much and some people's lives and stuff like that that we live in today this is an excellent song and I like to sing
If Mr. Paul Davis can get a Black Man from the Hood, Super Ghetto Hood of Atlanta Ga. to listen and love, it's really something special in his music, in the message. Thanks for making great music Sir! Timeless classic...
Yes Mack I love this song as well. It shares a special place in my heart as well & I'm a black woman from the suburbs of Atlanta.. Good music is just that Good music.
I’m 56 years old, and I still feel like I did when I was a teenager when I hear his beautiful voice! So soft, soulful and sweet…like The heart of Mississippi!!!
I sent this song to my high school flame the other night...She is now married....40 years have passed and we both are friends. It still touched us both.
He was 37 and she was 35 years old. My Buddy had a love relationship you'd never seen before. Such love between the two, beyond belief. Just over a year after the beginning of their relationship she developed terminal cancer and was given less than a year to live. What devastation! That being said, their love grew even stronger. On the night she passed away she was in his arms and the background music was playing. As she spoke her last words, "I'll always love you," this song (I Go Crazy) started playing. And tears just flowed down our eyes. We have never forgotten this song, which of course reminds of her passing. Paul Davis...such good music!
Thank you for sharing this story. I met my wife while in high school. This year we celebrate 40 years of marriage. This song has always been one of our favorite. I can't imagine life without her. I would go crazy.
This song is soooo beautiful!! It tore me apart with tears. A young woman didn't feel the way that I felt about her. I wasn't over her. I attended her wedding. Danced with her. Happy for her. Imagining it were me instead. I left the reception, never seeing her again and crying. In our twenties, life so emotional. This song still has deep meaning. Thank you, Paul Davis.
@@sallyfreeman9971 Thank you. Yes I did and my love is more blessed than could ever imagine. I believe that our individual journeys , good and difficult, in life buts us where we are to be
That must’ve been excruciatingly hard to do without breaking down in public. No way I could’ve done that with my ex who got married two years after we parted.
We don't hear this kind of emotion in the pop music of today. it's deep, raw and real...lacking in today's music for the most part. so sorry Paul is gone. a true talent..
I know right? I'm 68 years old and I have loved this song for like decades. It always touches me deeply and makes me realize I'm not the only one who has maybe been hurt a few times.
+Jill Bursell I'm 55, seems all my life THIS song (a few select others, ie:afternoon delight, pina colada song)takes me instantly to that moment in time I connected with said song....it's message and beat for all time. Music is my soul
Mine too. I get through some damn hard things with music rounding out the rough edges. My brother always loved Afternoon Delight so I think of him when I hear it. Don't see him much cause we don't live in the same state.
It reminds me of my first wife. I loved her more than life itself. it's forty-three years and I still feel the loss in my heart just as if it was yesterday.
+Sue McGee It sure does. 44 years ago the girl that I thought was the one for me walked out of my life. I got on with life, I married, had 3 children, lost my wife to mental illness. Two years ago I ran into That same girl from so long ago and it surprised me how the feelings came back.
+Bliss Babe same thing here- he pushed me away when i kissed keeping it platonic- he is tottaly self-sufficient- us girls need to be needed marriage would not have worked- we're lucky-
I love how Paul Davis seems very contemplative and isn't just saying words but he feels every single word he says and it sounds a bit melancholy and heartfelt.
I married my first true love. My only true love. Forty two yrs ago we took the plunge and neither of us have ever had a regret bc of it. I feel very blessed to have a man who treats me like I'm a queen. I've always treated him as a king bc he deserves that from me. This song is one of many on the soundtrack of our beginning. I was 17 and my hubs was 18 when we met. He had a motorbike and we rode it everywhere we went. It was so much fun and I'll never forget that magical summer. All of us who grew up to these special songs know it was the best of times. That's why we remember them so fondly and with much love.❤ ❤
I agree....Linda Rondstadt and Joe Cocker made careers out of reworking classics and making them their own....these songs wouldn't sell without a featured rap artist, unfortunately.......and honestly, how many "artists" today could actually sing them....Bieber singing this song?...not without autotune to the max and backing vocals covering those notes he couldn't hit.....sadly we just lost one artist who could actually sing...young Ms. Grimmie.....
Would be great, but we're a litigious group of greedy ppl. his cousin's neighbor would cry foul & convince a judge that royalties should be paid. . . to him.
I think the real reason is this. Most people do not have the passion, warmth, dignity or moral base to belt out such heart felt songs. Technology today has everyone connected instantly, even overseas anytime anyday. Im guessing your about the same age maybe. I was born mid 60's and my childhood, teen and young adult spanned through the 70's and eighties. We only had a phone, snail mail or seeing a person you loved face to face. Human interaction was a must to letting others how much we feel about them. How many times did a miss phone call or a busy signal ruined a night together? Today, those things arent even a bump in the road to romance. There was real human emotion having to meet face to face. Today we can use social media, texts to interact.
Music like this is priceless and will be enduring till the end of time. It takes from a world that is getting uglier by the day and puts us in a time in our lives that was beautiful and calm. God Bless America and all its Patriots. January 19th 2021
