Natalie Cole’s hit single “Miss You Like Crazy” is from the eighties, specifically 1989. It was released as the lead single from her album Good to Be Back.
The song was written by Gerry Goffin, Michael Masser, and Preston Glass, and its polished romantic-ballad production helped showcase Cole’s powerful, expressive vocal style. It became one of her biggest late-1980s successes and marked a prominent return to the pop and adult-contemporary charts.
In the United States, “Miss You Like Crazy” reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped both the Adult Contemporary and Hot R&B Songs charts in 1989. It performed especially strongly in the United Kingdom, where it reached number two and became Cole’s biggest UK hit.
The song is sometimes associated with Cole’s earlier jazz and R&B legacy because she was the daughter of legendary jazz pianist and singer Nat King Cole. However, “Miss You Like Crazy” belongs firmly to her late-1980s pop-soul period. Cole’s next major album, Unforgettable... with Love, arrived in 1991 and moved her career in a more traditional jazz direction.