The Originals © by Arnold Rypens - YOU'RE DRIVING ME CRAZY (WHAT DID I DO)

Artist: Rudy Vallee
Author: Walter Donaldson
Label: Victor
Year: 1930

From musical Smiles. Top 3 US. Walter Donaldson also wrote Makin' Whoopee, Love Me Or Leave Me, My Baby Just Cares For Me, My Blue Heaven and Yes Sir! That's My Baby. See also: Moten Swing.

Covers:

1930:: Adèle Astaire & Eddie Foy Jr. [on Broadway]
1930:: Guy Lombardo [n°1 US]
1930:: Louis Armstrong with Les Hite Orch.
1930:: Seger Ellis
1931:: Nick Lucas [top 10 US]
1939:: Quintette du Hot Club de France
1944:: Tommy Dorsey
1951:: Lester Young
1952:: Billy May
1952:: Les Brown
1954:: Paul Whiteman
1955:: Patti Page
1955:: Dinah Shore
1956:: Chet Baker
1956:: Big Joe Turner
1957:: Jackie Gleason
1959:: Perez Prado
1959:: Jack McDuff
1960:: Helen Humes
1961:: Temperance Seven [n°1 UK; see footnote]
1961:: Ella Fitzgerald
1961:: Zoot Sims
1962:: Les McCann
1966:: Frank Sinatra [on Strangers In The Night album]
1967:: Georgie Fame
1972:: Sadi
1988:: Bob Brozman
1995:: Squirrel Nut Zippers
2003:: Roomful Of Blues
2018:: Van Morrison & Joey Defrancesco [title track LP]

The Temperance Seven were inspirational for later bands as The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band and The New Vaudeville Band. Their You're Driving Me Crazy was the first n°1 for producer George Martin.

YOU'RE DRIVING ME CRAZY (WHAT DID I DO)

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