ALL ABOUT 
           DORIS DAY

  JUST DORIS...that's right, folks...
     a full page dedicated to our website Favorite,
             MISS DORIS DAY

ESPECIALLY FROM DORIS TO ALL YOU MOTHERS OUT THERE: HERE SHE WISHED YOU ALL A HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY WITH A SPECIAL SONG THAT IS APPROPRIATE NOT ONLY THAT DAY, BUT ALWAYS

DORIS BACK ON THE CHARTS WITH NOT ONE, NOT TWO, BUT THREE NEW 
CD'S    (AND ONE HAS TWO CDS)

WITH THE AMAZING SUCCESS OF "MY HEART" AS IMPETUS, SONY MUSIC IS NOW
RELEASING 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!  (LINK) 

HERE IS THE LATEST ADDITION TO THE DAY HOUSEHOLD, HER NEW DOG WHICH SHE SAYS SHE APTLY NAMED, "SQUIRRELLY JACKSON".
IT IS A COMBINATION OF POODLE AND TERRIER.

"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 ASKS FOR OUR HELP TO SAVE THE HORSES (LINK)

LAFC (LOS ANGELES FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION) HONORS DORIS WITH LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD. LISTEN IN TO JUST THAT PART OF THE AWARDS CEREMONY HERE (LINK)
OR BETTER, WATCH IT ALL HERE:  (LINK)

Doris and son, Terry Melcher
"HAPPY ENDINGS" from the
  "MY HEART" album by Doris

          THE TWO QUEENS OF COMEDY.......
           LUCY INTERVIEWS DORIS ON 
           SET OF "MOVE OVER, DARLING"

         Latest Note From Doris Day:

As  the season for giving is upon us, I wanted to make sure you all knew about a few
easy ways to support the Doris Day Animal Foundation.  My new album, "My Heart" is now available in  the U.S.  As  you know, my heart truly belongs to the animals, and so  I'm giving the  proceeds from this effort to DDAF.  Click here  to purchase today .

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Get started by clicking the "Support Us" button on our profile  page here! 

  
Thank  you so  much for all you do.  I hope you and your loved ones -- with
and  without fur -- are happy and healthy!  
 
Love, 
 
Doris Day 
 

A Message From Doris regarding our celebration of her birthday on sampod in April of 2011, especially for all our sampod listeners:

AND HERE IS THE MESSAGE DORIS SENT FOR ALL OF YOU FOR THIS YEAR, 2012:

Terry Gross Interview for Doris' Birthday on NPR (click link)

           A RARE PUBLIC APPEARANCE:

1989  Doris receives the
Cecil B. DeMille Award for her 
Lifetime Acting Achievement 
            Hear Acceptance Speech (link)

 CHECK OUT THE "MUSIC!" PAGE FOR A RARE TREAT
...DORIS IN THE EARLY YEARS. YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS IT!

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++"

SO MUCH FOR THE GLOBE and its usually trashy pictures of Doris!  HERE IS THE MOST CURRENT PICTURE OF HER  THAT IS BEING USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH  ADS FOR THE NEW CD  RELEASES:

             

BELOW IS: SAMPOD'S TRAVELING CARD TO DORIS 
     CONGRATULATING HER ON THE NEW CD

some of the other news and interviews: (click the links)
BBC News (uk)
More UK News
Doris was interviewed  by      Paul McCartney of Beatles fame. (click for link)
                    
FROM RECENT US
 BILLBOARD MAGAZINE 
    "DORIS DAY NEW CD RELEASE"
FROM SHOWBIZ MAGAZINE:
   "ANOTHER LEGEND"
And our favorite gal continues to
make headlines, even today. 

But now, let's look back.
  CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
             (ALSO SEE MOVIE SONGS below)
        "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 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:

FOUR YEARS LATER,
DORIS WITH HARRY JAMES
ON A HIT SINGLE FROM 1951>>>
NOBODY DOES IT          BETTER....
 "THE LULLABY OF BROADWAY":

AND THIS VERSION 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:

"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:

             "LITTLE GIRL BLUE"

      MY ROMANCE

THE TITLE SONG FROM HER SECOND MOVIE, 1949
                "MY DREAM IS YOURS"

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"

          
 

THE ONES THAT SOMEHOW GOT AWAY...

IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A HIT...it was
recorded in 1963 but it was  NEVER RELEASED. 
    Why not? Good Question!
      "LET THE LITTLE GIRL LIMBO"

And here is another one. Recorded
in 1964; also, never released.

               "OO-WEE BABY"

This next one was featured in the film, "Strictly Ballroom" but only released on the "Latin for Lovers" album, never as a single.
            Why not?
       "PERHAPS, PERHAPS, PERHAPS"

Here is a Doris song from the late 40's we loved; hope you like it, too... (special thanks to CS for another great you tube video):

        "JUST AN OLD LOVE OF MINE"

And how about these gems that just never
made it. Can't imagine why not:

  "Through The Eyes of Love"

  "Angel's Song" (from "Lucky Me")

 "I'VE FORGOTTEN YOU" (with the Mellomen)

 "I AM LOVED"




 IT
  JUST
   NEVER
        HAPPENED:

In a  tv interview, arranger Frank Comstock (who was also a sometime neighbor and good friend to Doris) told the interviewer that there had been plans afoot for Doris to record an album of songs based on a classical theme.  How cool would that have been?  We do have one example of how it might have sounded. Here, from "Young At Heart" is a song based on Felix Mendelssohn's classic air, "On Wings of Song". This one was called 
 
           "TILL MY LOVE COMES TO ME".


       F L i P s I d E s
sometyimes a great song goes unnoticed because the flip side happened to be a big hit, and very often it is the fault of a deejay who does not play both sides.  In 1947, Doris had a big hit with "Papa, Won't You Dance With Me" (deservedly so...her first top charted single).  HOWEVER, there was a great song on the other side. It was played like crazy on jukeboxes; it just did not get the radio play it deserved. Many people who bought the hit side ended up liking the flip better. So, here for your enjoyment is that flipside: 
     "SAY SOMETHING NICE ABOUT ME BABY"
                  
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Watch our slideshow featuring the covers from Doris Day’s original Columbia Recording studio albums (30 albums from 1949 through 1967; 3 new one ,now out  this year, not included!)

From 1954's movie YOUNG AT HEART co-starring Frank Sinatra comes this exceptionally beautiful song. In the movie, Frank sang the song and Doris just did the finish of the song with him. Here she does the entire piece by herself, and it is definitely one of her best recordings and a great love song for anytime. (By special request from one of our forum regulars from the Deep South!)

                          "YOU, MY LOVE"

BIG MOVIE HIGHLIGHTSONGS

            "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.  Here are the screen title credits and first two scenes from the movie, which feature Doris singing the song. Co-star: Louis Jordan. 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 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:

    The Quigley Almanacs  (Check the lists for
       ALL TIME TOP MONEY-MAKING STARS)
   the films of doris day
   (an article written by Paul Brogan
    on a special dorisday.net page)
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SCRAPBOOK                      CORNER:
CAROL SHARES WITH US...

Many of you know that our forum moderator, Carol Johnson, has great expertise in developing scrapbooks around a theme, and she has made many of these which have been sent to Doris. Here are a couple with thanks to our embedded youtube links:

A RECENT SCRAPBOOK  FROM CAROL FOR DORIS/DEDICATED TO HER SON TERRY. This one can also be viewed on Doris' own website, http://www. dorisday.com.

Here is one that Carol sent earlier developing the theme of Doris Day's tv series.

HERE ARE LINKS TO A FEW OTHER SCRAPBOOKS THAT YOU MIGHT ENJOY VIEWING:
         
            ALL ABOUT DORIS' SONGS  
            ALL ABOUT DORIS' PETS 
            A NOSTALGIC LOOK AT DORIS' LIFE 
            DORIS AT THE MOVIES

RARE RECORDING BY DORIS  WITH BOB HOPE ON A 1949 RADIO SHOW. A LIVE TRANSCRIPT OF A GREAT SONG, "BABY-IT'S COLD OUTSIDE"

  
  HERE IS ANOTHER DORIS SONG TOO LONG FORGOTTEN/NOW ON YOUTUBE:
            "LOST IN LOVELINESS"

DO YOU REMEMBER THIS WONDERFUL SONG FROM HER 1954
MOVIE "LUCKY ME"?  (IT WAS THE BEST THING IN THE MOVIE)

ANOTHER GREAT TREAT, THANKS TO C.S.  SOME FOLKS HAVE THE KNACK!
Doris sings in the mid 40's with Les Brown And
His Band, "OH WHAT IT SEEMED TO BE"

AND ONE MORE GREAT VIDEO FROM CS DONE TO A BEAUTIFUL AND SENSUOUS DORIS SONG (WRITTEN BY NONE OTHER THAN COUNTRY SINGER WILLIE NELSON!!!!)

Remember this one from 1949?  Listen to all the beautiful and haunting images throughout this song:
      "YOU GO TO MY HEAD"

  FROM DORIS TV SPECIAL, FEATURING
     MANY OF DORIS' FILM CO-STARS

       AN AMAZING BUT NOT WELL KNOWN
          SONG BY DORIS (songs of faith)

NO RHYME OR REASON.........
Sometimes, we wonder why some
things just did not happen. FIRST:
WHY DIDN'T "IT'S MAGIC" win the
Oscar over "Buttons and Bows"
in 1948. No logical explanation.
ANOTHER: In 1949, the top hit song
from "IT'S A GREAT FEELING" was
the title song. Why wasn't it this?

"BLAME MY ABSENT-MINDED HEART"

THAT WAS THE SAME YEAR DORIS HAD A GIGANTIC MILLION SELLING HIT WITH A
 SIMILAR SOUNDING SONG CALLED                 "AGAIN" (featuring the Mellomen)

SOME CALL IT A SONG OF FAITH; I CALL IT A CHRISTMAS SONG
              "SCARLET RIBBONS (FOR HER HAIR)"

          
         NOW THAT THE SEASON IS OVER,
WE HAVE DECIDED WE LIKE CHRISTMAS DORIS
YEAR ROUND...SO ENJOY ANYTIME....

          STILL AVAILABLE ON CD

           NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD

                 Still available on Cd

      ALSO STILL AVAILABLE ON CD

    
AND NOW,
  THE COMPLETE DORIS DAY
           CHRISTMAS COLLECTION
   

"THE CHRISTMAS SONG" (with Les Brown and his Orchestra)
"THE CHRISTMAS SONG" (newer version)        "THE CHRISTMAS WALTZ"
"OL' ST NICHOLAS"       "HERE COMES SANTA CLAUS     "SILVER BELLS" (older version)
"SILVER BELLS" (newest version)        "I'LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS"
"HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS"   "TOYLAND"  
 "LET IT SNOW! LET IT SNOW! LET IT SNOW"          "CHRISTMAS PRESENT"
"THE CHRISTMAS STORY" (with Gordon MacRae from 'Moonlight Bay')
"THE CHRISTMAS STORY" (original release without Gordon)
"WINTER WONDERLAND"        "DECK THE HALL"        "WHITE CHRISTMAS"
"BE A CHILD AT CHRISTMAS TIME"           "SILENT NIGHT"
"LET NO WALLS DIVIDE"                                 "DAVID"S PSALM"
"I'VE GOT MY LOVE TO KEEP ME WARM"  (A former hit for Les Brown sans Doris)   
"BABY, IT'S COLD OUTSIDE" (With Bob Hope from late 40's radio show) 
"THE SECOND STAR TO THE RIGHT" (from "PETER PAN" with The Four Lads)  
"THE LORD'S PRAYER" (Any time of the year, but especially Christmas)

AVAILABLE ONLY ON SPOTIFY:
"I'D LIKE TO HITCH A RIDE W/SANTA CLAUS" (with Bing Crosby)
"JINGLE BELLS" (Duet with Jimmy Boyd)


THE COMPLETE CHRISTMAS COLLECTION NOW AVAILABLE ON SPOTIFY.COM.  SEE OUR MUSIC PAGE FOR THE LINK.

FROM THE DORIS DAY TV SHOW:

SPECIAL CHRISTMAS WISHES FOR DORIS DAY FROM
SOME OF HER FANS AND SPECIAL FRIENDS HERE ON SAMPOD.
SCRAPBOOK PREPARED AND SENT TO DORIS BY CAROL JOHNSON.

A COMPLETE TRANSFORMATION
Here is a little sample of the scrapbook That Carol did in a make-over of my old  scrapbook albums, which I began back in 1948, my collection of everything I had about Doris Day. 
First you will see what my original album(s)
looked like "before" (when Carol received them )
followed by the unbelievable transformation 
"after".   Remember, because  I had  so many items that I had collected since 1948.....Carol could  only take a few  pictures of the finished product;  it took (3) 100 page scrapbook albums  to complete the job. You will see on a good many of the pictures where the tape had turned yellow and the articles were very old and crumbling  because of all the years I've had them.  She did a lot of cropping and  trimming but some of the things  just could not be covered up.   Hope you enjoy seeing maybe some pictures of Doris you might not have ever seen and realize what a treasure trove Mike has in this collection.

 

 BETTER LATE THAN NEVER..........
HERE IS A GREAT SONG BY DORIS FROM 1952 THAT SHE SANG 
ON HER RADIO SHOW; IT WAS NEVER RELEASED AS A SINGLE.

MORE NEWS ABOUT THE STILL POPULAR CD, "MY HEART" (over 4 months on the hit charts). Here from "TODAY SHOW" and "THE VIEW" at its initial release:

NOW...let's watch "WITH A SMILE AND A SONG/2CD" and
"THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION" climb the charts as well; it  has already begun, and DD is still setting records!

 BE SURE TO ALSO CHECK OUT OUR PAGE CALLED "DAY DREAMING WITH DORIS DAY...LISTEN TO ALL THE SONGS BY DORIS THAT CHARTED IN THE TO0 100, WATCH TRAILERS FOR ALL OF HER 39 FILMS, AND SEE ALL OF THE ALBUMS SHE MADE THAT CHARTED IN THE TOP.

"IF I GIVE MY HEART TO YOU"--MUCH MORE POPULAR THAN YOU EVER IMAGINED! (CHECK OUT 26 DIFFERENT VERSION OF DORIS' BIG HIT!) THE LINK

A FUN INTERVIEW WITH
      MIKE AND DORIS