"Crying in the Night's about an actress; her name is Lesley Ann Warren and she did some movie that was very a-la-Gunsmoke Kitty, you know, that type of thing, and I wrote this song about her. And many years later when I did the video for ‘Stand Back,’ and Jeffrey Hornaday choreographed it, they were going together and he, in fact, introduced me to her and I told her about it, that this song had been written about her. So this was a song that was really written about a certain person, and if you know who she is and whenever you hear ‘Crying in the Night’ will know that that’s what I wrote it about. And she thought it was pretty neat and I thought it was pretty neat and I thought it was pretty neat to get to tell her that I wrote it about her.”
Although Stevie has never said what the movie was called, her description appears to match the character of “Mae” in the ABC TV movie The Daughters of Joshua Cabe (1972), in which Lesley Ann Warren played a “come-on girl,” or a prostitute. “Crying the Night” (backed with “Stephanie”) was the lead single from Buckingham Nicks. From: https://stevienicks.info/music/buckingham-nicks-1973/crying-in-the-night/
