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It was written, though, and not just by Gnarls Barkley. "Crazy" is itself a cover, of sorts: The song's bass line is a sample from "Nel Cimitero di Tucson," a soundtrack tune from the 1968 spaghetti Western Preparati la Bara! Gnarls Barkley replaced the original's lead trumpet solo with a new main melody line and came up with a precisely calibrated arrangement that straddles the border between modern dance-pop and '70s disco-soul. There is a sleek dance beat with a prominent disco-ish high-hat; a background chorale lifted virtually wholesale from "Nel Cimitero di Tucson"; and strings that swoop and shudder over the chorus. At the center of it all is a sound that retains some of the original's sulfurous Old West atmosphere: that chugging stream train bass line and the eerie, whistle-whine high tenor of Cee-Lo, who gives a terrific, weird performance filled with long pauses and gospel-style stutters and exclamations.