DORIS DAY

[RD44]

My favourite Doris Day track is "Perhaps, Perhaps" - very sinuous.

There are two entries on youtube but I don't know how to link them!

[brownie]

Nothing against Doris Day... I like her!

Just give me Mildred Bailey anytime

[jostber]

Pretty cool looking girl:

[Teasing the Korean]

I have passed up the Columbia album with Previn too many times. I need to find it.

[Larry Kart]

No, I mean in the video, the Minnesota Twin guy.

I know who "Tough Tony" is, but which video do you mean? The guy with Doris in the one you posted is Louis Jourdan, no? And that's not a video, I think, just a static image or images?

[JSngry]

Those two sides she did in 1950 with Harry James and a small group in conjunction with "Young Man With A Horn" -- "Too Marvelous For Words" and "The Very Thought Of You"! She phrased so gracefully at very slow tempos and was so sexy. Here's "Too Marvelous":

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=OpoWCAyoQqU

Dig the note she hits on "that" in the phrase "'and that old standby amorous."

This video, Larry, the one you posted. Is that Tony Oliva in there?

[Larry Kart]

Those two sides she did in 1950 with Harry James and a small group in conjunction with "Young Man With A Horn" -- "Too Marvelous For Words" and "The Very Thought Of You"! She phrased so gracefully at very slow tempos and was so sexy. Here's "Too Marvelous":

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=OpoWCAyoQqU

Dig the note she hits on "that" in the phrase "'and that old standby amorous."

This video, Larry, the one you posted. Is that Tony Oliva in there?

All I see here are stills of Doris, in one of which she's holding a curly-haired little dog.

[JSngry]

On the other hand, somewhat girlish though it may be, this 1959 version of "The Way You Look Tonight" reveals that Day's laidback time and phrasing could still be damn fine:

http://www.youtube.c...feature=related

Orchestra is Frank DeVol's, wonder who the muted trumpet is. Not Sweets, I think.

Ok, my bad, this video. @ 2:39

[Quincy]

On the other hand, somewhat girlish though it may be, this 1959 version of "The Way You Look Tonight" reveals that Day's laidback time and phrasing could still be damn fine:

http://www.youtube.c...feature=related

Orchestra is Frank DeVol's, wonder who the muted trumpet is. Not Sweets, I think.

Ok, my bad, this video. @ 2:39

It's Jim "Mudcat" Grant. The picture was taken before the '65 World Series game in LA.

[Larry Kart]

In a recent biography of Day, author David Kaufman says that Day had an affair with Maury Wills in 1962:

http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2008-07-09-dorisday_N.htm

[Larry Kart]

In a recent biography of Day, author David Kaufman says that Day had an affair with Maury Wills in 1962:

http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2008-07-09-dorisday_N.htm

I should add this from Wikipedia's Maury Wills entry: "Day denied this in her autobiography 'Doris Day: Her Own Story,' and said it was probably advanced by the Dodgers organization for publicity purposes."

I have no knowledge one way or the other here, but if "probably advanced by the Dodgers organization for publicity purposes" is an accurate account of what Day says about this rumor in her autobiography, that seems a fairly odd claim and/or explanation, a la Jon Lovitz's old Saturday Night Live tagline, "Yeah, that's the ticket!"

[JSngry]

Campanis!

[jazztrain]

NPR had a story about Doris Day on this morning's "Weekend Edition."

[AllenLowe]

let us not forget how rare inter-racial romances were at the time.

[Spontooneous]

There's a slightly disturbing Doris story in this interview with Ronnell Bright. I've also heard him tell the same story, and I believe him to be a truthful man.

[AllenLowe]

interesting and probably a typical Hollywood experience - too many projects that don't go, and stars who are just a bit too insulated from what their management is doing. I've had much worse experiences with well-known (to us), but less famous jazz musicians.

[J.A.W.]

have you listened to the songs from the late 1940s?

I just listened to music samples of the first Bear Family box, It's Magic, with her complete 1947-1950 Columbia recordings and besides the good stuff there's an awful lot of dross on it.

Is there a good CD collection with her better recordings from the late 1940s? The Bear Family box really is a mixed bag in my opinion.

Edited February 22, 2010 by J.A.W.