YOU'RE DRIVING ME CRAZY (WHAT DID I DO ?)
Feat. in the Broadway Musical "Smiles" (1930)
(Walter Donaldson)
Adele Astaire & Eddie Foy Jr. (Broadway Production) - 1930
Jack Albin & His Hotel Pennsylvania Dance Orch. (vocal: Bill Coty) - 1930
Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians (vocal: Carmen Lombardo) - 1930
Lee Morse - 1930
Rudy Vallee & His Connecticut Yankees - 1930
McKinney's Cotton Pickers - 1930
Nick Lucas & His Crooning Troubadors - 1930
Gene Austin - 1930
Grace Johnston - 1930
Sammy Fain - 1931
Harry Hudson's Melody Men - 1931
Louis Armstrong & His Sebastian New Cotton Club Orch. - 1931
Mae Questel (as Betty Boop in the cartoon "Silly Scandals") - 1931
Gracie Fields - 1931
Ray Noble & His Orch. (vocal: Al Bowlly) - 1931
Jack Payne & His BBC Dance Orch. (vocal: Val Rosing) - 1931
Bob & Alf Pearson - 1931
Josephine Baker - 1931
Hoosier Hot Shots - 1937
Don Redman & His Orch. - 1939
Tommy Dorsey & His Orch. (vocal: The Sentimentalists) - 1945
Art Shackelford Sextette (vocal: Clark Hayden) - 1947
Billy Eckstine & The George Shearing Quintet - 1952
Ray Anthony & His Orch. (vocal: Marcie Miller) - 1952
Buddy Greco - 1953
Patti Page - 1954
Paul Whiteman & The New Ambassador Hotel Orch. (Instr.) - 1954
Jane Russell & Anita Ellis (feat. in the film "Gentlemen Marry Brunettes") - 1955
Dinah Shore - 1955
Jaye P. Morgan - 1956
Jeri Southern - 1956
The Ames Brothers - 1956
Warren Covington & The Commanders - 1956
Bing Crosby - 1957
Kay Starr - 1957
Jerry Lewis - 1957
Frankie Vaughan - 1957
Doris Day - 1958
The Four Aces - 1958
Keely Smith - 1959
Lola Albright - 1959
Della Reese - 1960
Max Bygraves with Ted Heath & His Music - 1960
The Temperance Seven (vocal: Paul McDowell) - 1961
The McGuire Sisters - 1962
The Mills Brothers - 1964
Frank Sinatra - 1966
Peggy Lee - 1967
Maxine Sullivan - 1969
Alan Paul (feat. in the film "The Marrying Man") - 1991
Squirrel Nut Zippers - 1995
Also recorded by:
Betty Carter; The Keynoters; The Swingsters; Billie Holiday; Lincoln Chase;
Tommy Sands; Johnny Otis; Etta Jones; Pasadena Roof Orch.; Steve Allen;
Perez Prado; Erroll Garner; Mel Tormé; Matt Monro; Billy May; Lester Young;
George Melly; Johnny Nash; Helen Humes; Ella Fitzgerald; Teddy Randazzo;
Big Joe Turner; The Swe-Danes; Billie Holiday; Abbe Lane; Dianne Reeves;
Gunnar Nilsson; Marilyn Moore; Connie Haines; Chet Baker; Georgie Fame;
Curtis Stigers; Charlie Parker; Billy May ........ and many, many others.
You left me sad and lonely
Why did you leave me lonely
For here's a heart that's only
For nobody but you
I'm burning like a flame, dear
Oh, I'll never be the same, dear
I'll always place the blame, dear
On nobody but you
Yes, you, you're driving me crazy
What did I do? What did I do?
My tears for you make everything hazy
Clouding the skies of blue
How true were the friends who were near me
To cheer me, believe me, they knew
But you were the kind who would hurt me
Desert me when I needed you
Yes, you, you're driving me crazy
What did I do to you
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As recorded by DON REDMAN & His Orchestra:
SPOKEN:
(Hey, you guys there, let's get together there,
Why, you'se enough to drive a man crazy!
What's the matter, can't we get this thing?
What do you say we go there, huh?
Pick out a song!)
You! You're driving me crazy!
What did I do?
Oh, what did I do?
My tears for you make everything hazy,
Clouding the skies of blue!
How true!
Were the friends who were near me to cheer me,
Believe me, they knew,
But you!
Were the kind who would hurt me, desert me when I needed you!
Yes, you!
You're driving me crazy!
What did I do to you?
(Scat Singing)
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As recorded by PEGGY LEE, 7th June 1967:
You, you're driving me crazy
What did I do, what did I do
My tears for you make everything hazy
Clouding the skies of blue
How true were the friends who were near me
To cheer me, believe me, they knew
But you were the kind who would hurt me
Desert me when I needed you
'Cause you, you're driving me crazy
What did I do, what did I do to you
Oh you, you're driving me right straight out of my mind
I can't take it, no I can't make it
Yes, you, you're driving me right straight out of my mind
I don't know what to do, what did I do to you
You're driving me crazy
(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - May 2019)
