GONNA TAKE A "SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY"

ALTHOUGH IT WAS RECORDED HUNDREDS OF TIMES, THIS SONG IS SO CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH ONE SINGER AND ONE ORCHESTRA THAT IT IS DIFFICULT TO THINK OF IT BY ANYONE ELSE.  IT HAD ITS BEGINNINGS AS A #1 SONG THAT TOPPED THE  CHARTS FOR 23 WEEKS IN 1945, AT THE END OF WORLD WAR II. THE BAND WAS LES BROWN AND THE SINGER WAS HIS VOCALIST, DORIS DAY.

HERE IS THAT ORIGINAL CLASSIC VERSION THAT BECAME A SIGNATURE TUNE FOR BOTH LES BROWN AND DORIS DAY IN THEIR RESPECTIVE CAREERS

THAT SONG BECAME SO CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH DORIS THAT SHE SANG IT MANY TIMES AND EVEN USED IT AS A TITLE FOR AN ALBUM IN THE 1960'S. HERE ARE A COUPLE MORE OF HER VERSIONS OF THE SONG:

FROM HER 1952/53 RADIO SHOW WITH BACKUP FROM PAGE CAVANAUGH TRIO

THE TITLE TRACK OF HER 60'S ALBUM, "DORIS DAY'S SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY"

WHILE DORIS AND LES MAY "OWN" THIS SONG, SO TO SPEAK, IT DID NOT STOP IT FROM BECOMING ONE OF THE 300 MOST RECORDED SONGS OF ALL TIME. IN FACT, THE LES BROWN BAND KEPT RECORDING WITH OTHER ARTISTS, HOPING TO BRING IT BACK.  IT ONLY WORKED ONCE WITH THIS VERSION BY THE AMES BROTHERS WITH LES BROWN WHICH REACHED #23 ON THE BILLBOARD CHARTS IN 1951, A SLIGHTLY FASTER RENDITION:

YES, THERE WERE SOME OTHER GREAT INTERPRETATIONS OF THE SONG:

THE GLENN MILLER ORCHESTRA  1945

BILLY VAUGHAN ORCHESTRA  1950'S

BETTE MIDLER IN    A GREAT ROUTINE

ELLA FITZGERALD

  MR. FATS DOMINO

   ESQIVEL ORCHESTRA

HOW ABOUT RINGO STARR???????

REMEMBER OLD TIME PIANOROLL?

THE LENNON SISTERS ???

IN MARCH, 1971, DORIS APPEARED IN HER FIRST TV SPECIAL WITH GUEST STAR PERRY COMO. AFTER SINGING A FEW DUETS WITH HIM, SHE THEN SANG TWO OF HER MOST FAMOUS SONGS, "IT'S MAGIC" AND AN AMAZING RENDITION OF "SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY". (CLICK HERE)

IN 1985, DORIS DAY HAD LES BROWN AS HER GUEST ON HER CABLE SHOW, "DORIS DAY'S BEST FRIENDS".  HE BROUGHT THE BAND ALONG, AND A REUNION ENSUED ....ONE MORE TIME! (click here)l