Artist: Rudy Vallee
Author: Walter Donaldson
Label: Victor
Year: 1930
From musical Smiles. Walter Donaldson also wrote Making 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:
Adèle Astaire & Eddie Foy Jr. [on Broadway]
Guy Lombardo [n°1 US]
Nick Lucas [top 3 US]
Temperance Seven [n°1 UK; see footnote]
Frank Sinatra [on Strangers In The Night album]
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.
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