Greatest HitsArtist: Doris Day
Community Score: 4.00
Considering Doris Day spent most of her best years with Columbia (late '40s to the mid-'60s), this hits-roundup from the label makes for a perfect introductory disc. Although a might slim, the 12-track set includes most of the key songs ("Secret Love," "Que Sera, Sera," "Teacher's Pet") and spotlights Day at her vivacious best. Featuring fine...
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Day DreamsArtist: Doris Day
Doris Day's career has gone through so many stages that the starlet's movie fans might be surprised to discover her many jazz and pop sides at the local record shop. Not really a jazz singer in the Sarah Vaughn and Ella Fitzgerald sense, Day made her vocalizing name as a perpetually fresh-scrubbed singer of intimate ballads and pep rally...
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Love Me or Leave MeArtist: Doris Day
Love Me or Leave Me was one of Doris Day's greatest, and least likely, successes. Coming out of a string of light movie musicals, she turned in a dramatic performance in this film biography of singer Ruth Etting. She looked nothing like Etting and made no attempt to sound like her, either. But since Etting's recordings of the 1920s and '30s were...
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Doris Day's Greatest HitsArtist: Doris Day
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
Artist: Doris Day
Oddly enough, after recording five consecutive tie-in albums for her Warner Bros. movie musicals on Columbia Records in 1950-1951, each of which hit the Top Five with two going to number one, Doris Day did not cut a record of songs from her 1952 movie April in Paris. But she returned to the practice in 1953 with By the Light of the Silvery Moon,...
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Young Man with a HornArtist: Doris Day
The 1950 film Young Man With a Horn proved to be a pivotal point in Doris Day's career, as it represented her first major screen dramatic role. The soundtrack gave her an opportunity to return to big-band music, this time with Harry James leading the band. Naturally, the tunes in the film leaned toward the familiar, but those standards -- "The...
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Sinatra 80th: All the BestArtist: Frank Sinatra
Community Score: 9.00