You're Driving Me Crazy

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You're Driving Me Crazy is a pop song released by Walter Donaldson in 1930. Under the title Hello, what are you doing today, Daisy? the song appeared with a German text that Charles Amberg and Eugen Till had written in 1931.

background

In America, the singing band leader Rudy Vallée and his Connecticut Yankees presented the title in 1930. But Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians , with whom his brother Carmen Lombardo sang the refrain, and the jazz and blues singer Lee Morse and her Blue Grass Boys recorded it at Columbia. The successful song was immediately used in the play Smiles , in which Fred and Adele Astaire appeared together with Marilyn Miller at the Ziegfeld Theater .

The melody also quickly became a jazz standard , which bands such as McKinney's Cotton Pickers in the USA and Harry Hudson's Melody Men in Great Britain recorded. It was picked up and played by Dixieland bands in the course of the revival movement even after 1945, such as in 1961 by the British band "Temperance Seven".

In Germany the song was made popular by the singing group Comedian Harmonists . But also a “jazz orchestra with refrained singing” that remained anonymous, possibly Jack Presburg , played the title subtly swinging on the department store label “Red-Blue”.

In Amberg-Till's German version, a nervous lover tries to get a rendezvous with his capricious girlfriend Daisy on the phone.

  • Reverse:

Hello hello, what are you doing today, Daisy?
Do you have time today?
Let me know!
Hello hello, where shall we meet, Daisy?
No way is too far for me!
Hello hello your number
gives me so much grief,
i'm going crazy.
Hello hello, oh, I'm so happy, I
finally made the connection.
Hello hello, what are you doing today, Daisy?
Do you have time for me today?

The song got a nasty twist in World War II with a propaganda text directed against England, with which the jazz orchestra of Lutz Templin recorded it as " Charlie and His Orchestra " on behalf of the National Socialists with the singer Karl Schwedler .

Sound documents (examples)

  • Victor 22 572-A (matrix BVE-64351) You're Driving Me Crazy! (Me Vuelves Loco) Foxtrot (Walter Donaldson) Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees; Rudy Vallee, vocal refrain.
  • Columbia 2315-D (matrix 150.944) You're Driving Me Crazy (What Did I Do), Slow Fox-trot (W. Donaldson) Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians; Carmen Lombardo, vocal refrain.
  • Columbia 2348-D (matrix 150.987) You're Driving Me Crazy! Slow Fox-trot (W. Donaldson) Lee Morse and Her Blue Grass Boys. Rec.NY November 26, 1930.
  • Edison Bell 1458 (matrix 90015) You're Driving Me Crazy, Slow Fox-trot (W. Donaldson) Harry Hudson and His Melody Men (with Vocal Duet), rec. 1930
  • Electrola EG 2435 / 60-1780 (Die-No. E-OD 6071) Hello, What are you doing today, Daisy! (Walter Donaldson, text by Charles Amberg and Eugen Till) Comedian Harmonists, singing quintet with piano, open. Berlin, October 19, 1931.
  • Red-Blue No. 9669 (Matrix No. 6146) Hello, what are you doing today, Daisy! Slow Fox (music by Walter Donaldson - text by Ch. Amberg and Eugen Till) Jazz orchestra with refrained singing. Up. 1932

literature

  • Rainer E. Lotz: German hot discography. Cake Walk, Ragtime, Hot Dance and Jazz - A Guide. B. Lotz Verlag, Bonn 2006. ISBN 3-9810248-1-8 .
  • Rainer E. Lotz, Horst Bergmeier: Charlie and his Orchestra - an obscure chapter in German jazz history. In: Wolfram Knauer (Ed.): Jazz in Germany. Darmstadt contributions to jazz research. Volume 4. Wolke, Hofheim 1996, ISBN 3-923997-70-1 .
  • Josef Niesen: Charles Amberg - An attempt at a biographical reconstruction, in: Bonner Geschichtsblätter, Volume 66, Bonn 2016.
  • Josef Niesen: Charles Amberg, in: Lexicon of Persecuted Musicians of the Nazi Era, Claudia Maurer Zenck, Peter Petersen,
  • Sophie Fetthauer (Ed.), Hamburg: Universität Hamburg, 2017 ( https://www.lexm.uni-hamburg.de/object/lexm_lexmperson_00005419 ).

Web links

  • You're Driving Me Crazy! at en.wiki
  • Program cover of the Ziegfeld Theater with picture by Marilyn Miller, 1930.
  • Photo by Karl "Charlie" Schwedler.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Niesen, catalog raisonné PDF , p. 13
  2. ↑ cf. ucsb.edu
  3. ↑ Photos of the three at ochsnerblog.files
  4. ↑ a private recording on Draloston foil, without number, which the Berlin singing group “Harmony Boys” (Werner Doege, Olaf Meitzner, Wolfgang Leuschner, Erich Bergau and Werner Rössle, later called “Die Fidelios”) made of the song in May 1932 should, mention Josef Westner (humoresk) at grammophon-platten.de as well as Manfred Weihermüller and Heinz Büttner in their Discography of German Cabaret, Volume 6, Verlag B.Lotz, Bonn 2002, on page 1523.
  5. ↑ cf. "Here is Winston Churchill's latest tear-jerker: Yes, the Germans are driving me crazy / I thought I had brains / But they shot down my planes ..."
  6. ↑ Label “Lyre” 0116, attach. approx. Oct. 1940 - Lotz, German Hot Discography Cat.No. 35/34, p. 240; republished 1991 as track 13 on the CD "Charlie And His Orchestra - Vol. 2 - I Got Rhythm - German Propaganda Swing, 1941-1944" on the label Harlequin, HQ CD 9. Cf. discogs.com
  7. ↑ published in 1930, to be heard at archive.org
  8. ↑ up . on November 11, 1930, to be heard on youtube
  9. ↑ listen on youtube
  10. ↑ possibly identical to PALLAS 424, Matr. C 724: Jazz-Orchester Jack Presburg.