- Crazy Rhythm is a 32-bar swing show tune written in 1928 by Irving Caesar with music by Joseph Meyer and Roger Wolfe Kahn for the Broadway musical Here's Howe.
- The original recording was by Roger Wolfe Kahn and His Orchestra, released on Victor Records in 1928, with Franklyn Baur singing the chorus.
- Genre and form: swing / jazz standard with a lively, danceable rhythm typical of the Jazz Age.
- Notable releases and appearances: Doris Day and Gene Nelson perform and record it on the Tea for Two album (1950); Tony Bennett included it on The Beat of My Heart (1957); other famous versions include Bing Crosby, Stan Getz, Benny Carter, Miles Davis, and Frank Sinatra.
- The tune has a long legacy with well over 150 covers, and it has appeared in films and radio, including Tea for Two and The Goon Show, as well as disco and jazz reinterpretations in later decades.
