DEL JULIANA
(I Say) You're Driving Me Crazy
(H. B. Barnum)
Australia 1964

Single on RCA.

See also the B-side, I Was A Fool For Leaving, and another single, Never Like This/What'd I Say.

Pop-rock singer Del Juliana (b. c.1942) released two singles and was a familiar solo artist on TV pop shows.

Del Juliana has gone down in history as the singer who almost supported The Beatles on their 1964 Australian tour. Whether she pulled out or was overlooked is unclear, but her place seems to have been taken by Johnny Devlin.

According to Teenagers' Weekly, 16 October 1963, Del Guiliani (as her name is spelt there) was signed to Channel 7 Sydney in 1962 on a five-year contract after she had appeared on Sing Sing Sing, the program that had replaced the Johnny O’Keefe Show from October 1962.

In their book Behind the Rock (now online), Jon Hayton and Leon Isackson tell the story of how their band The R'Jays (soon to be The Rajahs) booked Del Juliana to appear with them at the Snowy Mountains Hotel in Cooma early in 1964.

Biographical details on Del Juliana are hard to find, but she is said to be New Zealand-born and living nowadays in the Blue Mountains area of New South Wales. She appeared at a 2002 memorial concert for Dig Richards.

Listen to You're Driving Me Crazy at MusicPopHits' Del Juliana page.
On CD: Canetoad Records' Girls! Girls! Girls! along with two other Del Juliana tracks [Canetoad Records link].

At YouTube: Del Juliana singing Mockingbird with Johnny O'Keefe, some time before his hit version with Margaret McLaren.

Thanks to Belinda and 'jargonise' at MusicPopHits MSN group.
Teenagers' Weekly reference from Zbigniew Nowara. When Del Guiliana/Juliana joined Sing Sing Sing it was being compered by Lionel Long, but Johnny O'Keefe took over as compere early in 1963 when he returned after illness (Damian Johnstone, The Wild One).

Suggestion from Fred Hill.

Thanks to Rob for straightening out my maths.

DOROTHY BERRY
You're Driving Me Crazy
(H. B. Barnum)
USA 1962
Original version

Single on Little Star #117.

Dorothy was married to Richard Berry, writer and originator of Louie Louie. She released at least eight singles 1962-1971, mainly on Little Star, but also on Unity, Challenge, Planetary and (last of all) Tangerine, owned by Ray Charles.

You're Driving Me Crazy was produced by the composer of the song, H. B. Barnum (b. Hidle Brown Barnum, 1936), active since the 1950s as an arranger, producer, singer, songwriter and actor.

H. B. Barnum's song Since I First Met You (1957), recorded when he was a member of The Robins, has been used in several movies including Pulp Fiction.

Other Dorothy Baker songs: There's a Dorothy Berry track on Ace Records' Phil's Spectre: A Wall Of Soundalikes: You're So Fine, produced by David Gates on Challenge (1963) [Amazon link]. You're So Fine and its flipside, Cryin' On My Pillow are (unaccountably) on Vols 1 & 2 of the Nashville Country Gals collection [Amazon link; also at eMusic].

Further reading: H. B. Barnum page at SoulWalking.co.uk. Wikipedia entry on H. B. Barnum.

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