forming Poco. After earning only three writing credits over the course of the band's first six albums, Young first raised his songwriting profile on the eighth Poco release Cantamos in 1974. By then, Poco had morphed into a four-man band consisting of founding members Rusty Young and George Grantham along with Timothy B. Schmit and Paul Cotton, who had joined the band in respectively 1969 and 1970. The ninth Poco album release Head Over Heels (1975) marked Young's debut as a lead vocalist on the song "Us." The 1977 Poco album release Indian Summer featured Young singing lead on "Downfall." Other than instrumentals, his previous compositions for Poco prior to Legend featured Schmit as lead vocalist; on the 1976 Young composition "Rose of Cimarron", Schmit sang co-lead with Cotton. Legend/ "Crazy Love" Background By the time of the May 1977 release of the album Indian Summer Timothy B. Schmit had been recruited to join the Eagles: Schmit remained with Poco for their Indian Summer tour whose Santa Monica Civic Auditorium edition in July 1977 was recorded as The Last Roundup, intended to be released as Poco's final album. In 1978 Rusty Young and Paul Cotton auditioned for Poco's label ABC Records in hopes of being allowed to record an album together: in Young's words he and Cotton "got a little rehearsal hall, put together a band, and played...'Crazy Love' and 'Heart of the Night'" - the latter a Paul Cotton composition - for ABC Records executives "who said go ahead, make a record". Recorded at Crystal City Studios (Los Angeles) between April and August 1978, the resultant project was intended to be credited to the Cotton-Young Band: however ABC Records elected to have Young and Cotton along with two sidemen who'd backed them at Crystal City - drummer Steve Chapman and bassist Charlie Harrison - continue as Poco (keyboardist Kim Bullard joined Poco by the year's end), with The Last Roundup being shelved and the Crystal City tracks issued as the twelfth album release from Poco in November 1978, under the title Legend. Release and reception Issued as a single in January 1979, "Crazy Love" debuted at #72 on the Billboard Hot 100 dated 20 January 1979 and rose into the Top 40 within four weeks. Losing traction in the Top 30, "Crazy Love" would in March 1979 spend three weeks in the Top 20 peaking at #17 before beginning