Crazy Lady / Rock Me

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Album Info

Release Date: 1979

Label: Angel Sound

Judy Castelli is a singer/songwriter who performed regularly in the folk venues of Greenwich Village from 1979 to 1981. Her unique booming, chilling three-octave contralto voice by many accounts mesmerized audiences. This record captures it.

She attracted the attention of Columbia Records and was about to be signed when the A&R executive she'd been working with lost his job and the deal fell through. As a direct result of this, she suffered a mental breakdown, abandoned her music career, and decided to concentrate on her visual art, particularly stained glass.

She continued to suffer until 1994, when she was finally properly diagnosed with and treated for Dissociative Disorder and PTSD. She became widely known for her particular extreme multiple-personality disorder condition because she developed a practical method for coping with it and publicized it through books and internet-based outreach. She was co-chair of the New York Society for the Study of Multiple Personality and Dissociation and did many radio and television interviews on the subject. She also continued her successful career as an artist.

"Crazy Lady" was among a group of six songs she copyrighted in 1972. The copyright registration for "Rock Me" gives a date of creation of 1976 and a registration date of April 1979.

This Spring 1979 date jibes well with the beginning of her performing at Folk City and The Bottom Line. Her last performance seems to be a December 1981 solo show at The Bottom Line.

It seems reasonable to assume that this demo is related to her near-signing with Columbia, and so a provisional 1979 date seems reasonable.

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