You're Driving Me Crazy
written by walter donaldson
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YOU'RE DRIVING ME CRAZY - MAE QUESTEL as BETTY BOOP
SILLY SCANDALS (TALKARTOON) 1931 |
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YOU'RE DRIVING ME CRAZY
YOU'RE DRIVING ME CRAZY (SCREEN SONGS) 1931
YOU'RE DRIVING ME CRAZY (SCREEN SONGS) 1931
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Hit-song lyricist Walter Donaldson wrote You're Driving Me Crazy in 1930. The song was recorded by dozens of artists that year, and it was such a hit that it was added into to the 1930 Fred Astaire musical comedy Smiles. In 1931 Betty Boop sang a risqué version of the song in the Talkartoon short Silly Scandals. The song was used by Fleisher again a few months later in a Screen Songs installment featuring the Bouncing Ball. In the short, the jazzy scat version of the song is sung by a group of animals that include a Cab Calloway sound-a-like. The song also made a brief appearance in the 1932 Talkartoon short Admission Free.
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BETTY
BOOP SONG ONLY |
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1930
RUDY VALLEE AND HIS CONNECTICUT YANKEES |
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1930
GUY LOMBARDO |
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1930
LOUIS ARMSTRONG AND HIS SEBASTIAN NEW COTTON CLUB ORCHESTRA |
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1930
McKINNEY'S COTTON PICKERS (DON REDMAN) |
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1930
GENE AUSTIN |
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1930
BILL MAHONEY AND HIS VARSITY EIGHT |
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1930
MISTINGUETT |
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1930
LEE MORSE AND HER BLUE GRASS BOYS |
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1930
HARRY HUDSON AND HIS MELODY MEN |
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1930
WOOLCO ENTERTAINERS |
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1930
THE NEW YORK TWELVE |
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1930
SOCIETY SERENADERS |
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1930
NICK LUCAS |
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1930
THE RAY NOBLE ORCHESTRA |
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1930
JESS STACY |
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1930
HELEN RICHARDS |
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1930
RAY VENYURA ET SON ORCHESTRA |
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1930
THE RCA THEREMIN |
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1931
AL BOWLLY |
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1931
JOSEPHINE BAKER |
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1931
GRACIE FIELDS |
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1931
JACK PAYNE'S ORCHESTRA |
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1937
DJANGO REINHART |
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1950
MEL TORME |
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1956
BIG JOE TURNER |
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19??
GARY COOPER |
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19??
FRANK SINATRA |
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19??
CHET BAKER |
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1958
DORIS DAY |
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1959
PEREZ PRADO |
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19??
BILLIE HOLIDAY |
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19??
ELLA FITZGERALD |
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1961
THE TEMPERANCE SEVEN |
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1964
WINGY MANONE |
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1980
PROFESSOR LONGHAIR |
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1989
MEL TORME |
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20??
HARLEM NOCTURNE |
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2010
EMILIE- CLAIRE BARLOW |
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2016
THE BIG BUTTER JAZZ BAND |
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20??
PETER MINTUN |
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KARAOKE |
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YOU'RE DRIVING ME CRAZY
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?
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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