Don't Destroy Me

"Don't Destroy Me"
Single by "Crash" Craddock
from the album Boom Boom Baby
B-side	Boom Boom Baby
Released	1959
Format	45 record
Recorded	1959
Genre	Rockabilly
Length	2:46
Label	Columbia Coronet
Writer(s)	Mann/Sharpiro
"Crash" Craddock singles chronology
Sweetie Pie/Blabbermouth (1959) Boom Boom Baby/Don't Destroy Me (1959) I Want That/Since She Turned Seventeen (1960)

Don't Destroy Me is a rockabilly song written by Mann/Sharpiro. It was originally recorded by "Crash" Craddock in 1959. Don't Destroy Me was his first hit song in the United States, he would later become a popular country singer in the 1970s. The song stayed on the charts for one week at #94. It and the flipside of the record, Boom Boom Baby, were big hits in Australia in 1959-1960.