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CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
It began in the late 30's with Barney Rapp and his Orchestra. Next, a short-lived round with Bob Crosby's Bobcats. Then came two stints with the Les Brown Band, followed by a Columbia Recording Contract, appearances on The Bob Hope and Your Hit Parade Radio Shows, a Warner Brothers Movie contract and her own radio show in 1952/53. Not long after, Doris became the Biggest Box Office Star in Movie History and the highest paid recording artist in the music business. She starred in two tv series. At the age of 88, in 2012, she had 3 new cds in the Top Selling records and is back in the limelight and popular all over the world, all over again! It's Magic! (Ditto in 2014, with a rare public appearance for her 90th birthday and another hit cd!)
THE FIRST MAJOR HIGHLIGHT FOR DORIS WAS A MILLION SELLING #1 RECORD WITH LES BROWN, THE TOP SELLING AND MOST POPULAR SINGLE RECORDING OF THE YEAR 1945 AND ONE OF THE BIGGEST HITS OF ALL TIME, "SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY"
DORIS SHINES THROUGH THE YEARS
2011/2012
WITH THE AMAZING SUCCESS OF "MY HEART" AS IMPETUS, SONY MUSIC HAS RELEASED ITS FIRST NEW COMPILATIONS OF DORIS MUSIC IN MANY, MANY YEARS.
CHECK OUT THE ARTICLE AND THE SONG LIST ON DORISDAYTRIBUTE.COM. (link)
NOT ONE, BUT TWO! ("WITH A SMILE AND A SONG" DOUBLE ALBUM LINK)
AS OF 4/22/12, "WITH A SMILE AND A SONG" WAS IN THE TOP TEN BEST SELLERS IN VARIOUS CATEGORIES OF AMAZON.COM. DORIS IS BACK WHERE SHE BELONGS.
CHRISTMAS SEASON 2012: ONCE MORE, WE HAVE A NEW DORIS CD RELEASE. THIS TIME, HER ENTIRE CHRISTMAS COLLECTION HAS BEEN RELEASED FOR SALES THIS YEAR.
HOT TIP: PURCHASE A 10 CD SET OF DORIS DAY'S MUSIC (240 SONGS) FOR A GREAT PRICE. IT IS A PHENOMENAL COLLECTION AT AN AMAZINGLY INEXPENSIVE PRICE.
CHECK THIS LINK: "SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY"
Turner Classic Movies from Monday, March 26th until April 6th ran a mini-documentary about Doris' film career, narrated by her. The new 2CD set by Sony was released on her birthday, April 3rd. It is already highly charted in pre-sales on Amazon.com. Link to this video
Robert Osborne (TCM) talks about Doris. (link)
ON April 1 from 9 till noon (California Time), you could hear a live celebration of Doris' birthday two days earlier, and she called in to the station. It streamed live on the internet from KYAAmusic.com
BE SURE TO READ THIS ARTICLE FROM MUSIC NEWS.COM. (LINK)
AND IN ITS FIRST WEEK OF RELEASE, THE ALBUM HIT THE TOP 40 CHARTS. (LINK)
"QUE, SERA, SERA" WAS FINALLY INDUCTED INTO THE GRAMMY HALL OF FAME. MAYBE THE FOLKS WHO PICK OSCAR WINNERS WILL SOME DAY GET IT RIGHT! LONG OVERDUE AND WELL DESERVED. CLICK THIS LINK.
DORIS RECEIVED THE LA CRITICS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD THIS YEAR. Click this link. THEY DID NOT REQUIRE HER TO ATTEND IN ORDER TO RECEIVE THE HONOR (HINT HINT) See the ceremony (presentation about 30 minutes into the program.) LAFCA 37th Annual Awards Ceremony from TVP Studios, Burbank on Vimeo. Here is the link (click here) The presentation for Doris begins 30 minutes into the Awards Ceremonies.
A RARE PUBLIC APPEARANCE 1989
Doris receives the Cecil B. DeMille Award : Lifetime Acting Achievement
Hear Acceptance Speech
But now, let's look back AT SOME MUCH EARLIER CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
"LOVE SOMEBODY"
1948
DORIS' FIRST MILLION SELLING SINGLE AS A SOLO ARTIST. HER SINGING PARTNER-BUDDY CLARK
Doris and Buddy sing
"LOVE SOMEBODY"
flipside: "Confess"
Check out some of these rare, great pictures of Doris from her days with Les Brown and His Orchestra singing "COME TO BABY DO"
By the end of 1946, Doris had left the Les Brown Band and ventured out on her own, much like one of her counterpart female dance band singers, Kitty Kallen. Both were settled in and playing solo club dates in New York City. On the strength of her success at the Little Club in New York, Doris was offered a singing contract with Columbia Records in New York. It took 5 songs to get a big hit ("Papa, Won't You Dance With Me"), but her first two single releases (4 songs) were really fun sides for her growing fans:
"PETE"
"TELL ME DREAMFACE"
"IT TAKES TIME"
"MY YOUNG AND FOOLISH HEART"
THIS PICTURE WAS TAKEN AT THE COLUMBIA STUDIOS IN NEW YORK THE DAY OF HER FIRST SOLO RECORDING SESSION:
HERE ARE DORIS DAY AND KITTY KALLEN ON A PUBLICITY STINT IN NYC SOMETIME IN 1947
FOUR YEARS LATER, DORIS WITH HARRY JAMES
ON A HIT SINGLE FROM 1951
NOBODY DOES IT BETTER....
"THE LULLABY OF BROADWAY"
(click below)
AND THIS VERSION OF THE SONG IS THE FINALE FROM THE FILM, "LULLABY OF BROADWAY". TAKE NOTE OF THE DANCING. OTHER DANCERS HAVE SAID THAT BOTH DAY AND NELSON DID SOME DANGEROUS THINGS IN THIS DANCE WHICH THEY MADE LOOK EASY. UP AND DOWN STAIRS IN HIGH HEELS AND LONG DRESS IS A FEAT. DORIS AND GENE WERE BOTH UNDERRATED. IT IS TIME TO GIVE CREDIT WHERE IT HAS BEEN LONG OVERDUE..
FROM HER #1 SELLING ALBUM, "DAY BY DAY" COMES TWO OF 12 GREAT SONGS THAT WERE A HIGHLIGHT OF DORIS' SINGING CAREER:
"I REMEMBER YOU"
"I SEE YOUR FACE BEFORE ME"
THIS IS A TERRIFIC ALBUM STILL AVAILABLE. ANYONE WHO WANTS A TRUE COLLECTION OF THE CLASSICS MUST HAVE THIS ONE IN A COLLECTION. LUCKILY FOR YOU, IT IS AVAILABLE TODAY AS A TWO-CD IN ONE COLLECTION ALONG WITH "DAY BY NIGHT".
FROM THE MOVIE JUMBO, TWO MORE GREAT ONES. THESE ARE SONGS THAT SHOW THE DRAMATIC QUALITY OF DORIS' VOCAL PHRASING.
"LITTLE GIRL BLUE"
"MY ROMANCE"
THE TITLE SONG FROM HER SECOND MOVIE, 1949 "MY DREAM IS YOURS", BIG AT THE BOX OFFICE
THERE WERE LOTS OF GREAT SONGS IN "MY DREAM IS YOURS"/ THIS ONE WAS A HIT FOR DORIS WITH BUDDY CLARK:
"I"LL STRING ALONG WITH YOU"
C'EST SI BON...
DO YOU LIKE DORIS WITH A FRENCH ACCENT? This one was featured in her 3rd film, " IT'S A GREAT FEELING" from 1949. It's called:
"AT ZE CAFE RENDEVOUS"
BIG MOVIE HIGHLIGHTS
"IT'S MAGIC"from
"ROMANCE ON THE HIGH SEAS" 1948
1st film 1st Oscar Nominated Song
"IT'S A GREAT FEELING" 1949
Doris's 3rd film and her
second Oscar Nominated Song
HERE IS ANOTHER GREAT SONG FROM "MY DREAM IS YOURS "; A REAL WINNER AND TOP JUKE BOX HIT CALLED "CANADIAN CAPERS"
THIS ONE GOT DORIS HER FIRST MUSICAL GRAMMY AWARD FOR BEST SONG FROM A MOTION PICTURE. THE MOVIE: "CALAMITY JANE" THE SONG? A super hit from 1953/1954:
"SECRET LOVE" from "CALAMITY JANE"
Academy Award Winning Song for 1953
THIS ONE GAVE DD HER SECOND GRAMMY AWARD
FOR BEST SONG FROM A MOTION PICTURE.
THE MOVIE: "THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH"
"QUE SERA, SERA" (WHATEVER WILL BE. WILL BE) 1956 "THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH"
ANOTHER ACADEMY AWARD
WINNING SONG
"JULIE" 1956 Title Song from the film was also nominated for an Oscar that year. The movie got its first "official" release on DVD and BLUERAY in 2011... It is a good thriller!
"SHAKING THE BLUES AWAY" Big Production Number from "LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME". 1955
Soundtrack album was THE #1 Selling Album for the year, and an all-time top seller.
"I'LL NEVER STOP LOVING YOU" 1955
Also from "Love Me or Leave Me"; this was another Academy Award Nominee for 1955.
FACT: DORIS DAY IS ALSO THE #1 FEMALE BOX OFFICE STAR OF ALL TIME!!!
Read all about that and how well her films did at the box office and many other amazing facts on these two websites:
LINK: The Quigley Almanacs (Check the lists for ALL TIME TOP MONEY-MAKING STARS)
LINK: The Films of Doris Day"
(an article written by Paul Brogan
on a special dorisday.net page)
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THE VIDEO BELOW COMES FROM THE DORIS MARY ANN KAPPELHOFF TELEVISION SPECIAL FROM THE MID 1970'S. IT IS A RETROSPECTIVE OF DORIS' MOVIE CAREER AND FEATURES THE MAJORITY OF HER CO-STARS THROUGH THE YEARS, AS SHE MAKES BARBRA STREISAND'S HIT, "THE WAY WE WERE", ALL HER OWN:
SEE MORE OF DORIS DAY'S CAREER HIGHLIGHTS BY CHECKING THESE LINKS:
DORISDAY.COM (THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE)
DORISDAYTRIBUTE.COM
DORISDAY.NET/FORUM
DORISDAYICON.COM
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