Doris Day
Biography
Doris Day (Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S., April 3, 1922 – May 13, 2019) was an American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist. After she began her career as a big band singer in 1939, her popularity increased with her first hit recording "Sentimental Journey" (1945). After leaving Les Brown and His Band of Renown to embark on a solo career, she recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967, which made her one of the most popular and acclaimed singers of the 20th century.
Days film career began during the latter part of the Classical Hollywood Film era with the 1948 film Romance on the High Seas, and its success sparked her twenty-year career as a motion picture actress. She starred in a series of successful films, including musicals, comedies, and dramas. She played the title role in Calamity Jane (1953), and starred in Alfred Hitchcocks The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) with James Stewart. Her most successful films were the bedroom comedies she made co-starring Rock Hudson and James Garner, such as Pillow Talk (1959) and Move Over, Darling (1963), respectively. She also co-starred in films with such leading men as Clark Gable, Cary Grant, David Niven, and Rod Taylor. After her final film in 1968, she went on to star in the CBS sitcom The Doris Day Show (1968–1973).
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Day was usually one of the top ten singers between 1951 and 1966. As an actress, she became the biggest female film star in the early 1960s, and ranked sixth among the box office performers by 2012. In 2011, she released her 29th studio album, My Heart, which became a UK Top 10 album featuring new material. Among her awards, Day has received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and a Legend Award from the Society of Singers. In 1960, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and in 1989 was given the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures. In 2004, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush followed in 2011 by the Los Angeles Film Critics Associations Career Achievement Award. She was one of the last surviving stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Her death was announced by her charity, the Doris Day Animal Foundation, on Monday 13th May 2019.
Discography
chart hits
YearTitleChart Positions
USCBUK
1945"Sentimental Journey" (w/ Les Brown)1——
"My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time" (w/ Les Brown)1——
"Taint Me" (w/ Les Brown)10——
"Till the End of Time" (w/ Les Brown)3——
"Arent You Glad Youre You?" (w/ Les Brown)11——
"Come to Baby Do" (w/ Les Brown) /13——
1946"You Wont Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart)" (w/ Les Brown)4——
"Day by Day" (w/ Les Brown)15——
"I Got the Sun in the Mornin (and the Moon at Night)" (w/ Les Brown)10——
"The Whole World Is Singing My Song" (w/ Les Brown)6——
1947"The Christmas Song" (w/ Les Brown)12——
"Sooner or Later" (w/ Les Brown)13——
"Papa, Wont You Dance With Me"21——
1948"Thoughtless" (w/ Modernaires)24——
"Love Somebody" (w/ Buddy Clark) /1——
"Confess" (w/ Buddy Clark)16——
"Put em in a Box, Tie em with a Ribbon, and Throw em in the Deep Blue Sea" /27——
"Its Magic"2——
"My Darling, My Darling" (w/ Buddy Clark)7——
1949"Powder Your Face with Sunshine" (w/ Buddy Clark)16——
"Again"2——
"Everywhere You Go"22——
"Lets Take an Old-Fashioned Walk" (w/ Frank Sinatra)17——
"Now That I Need You"20——
"Canadian Capers"15——
"Bluebird on Your Windowsill"19——
1950"Quicksilver"20——
"I Said My Pajamas (and Put on My Prayers)"21——
"Enjoy Yourself (Its Later than You Think)"24——
"Hoop-Dee-Doo"17——
"Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered"9——
"I Didnt Slip, I Wasnt Pushed, I Fell"19——
"A Bushel and a Peck"16——
1951"Its a Lovely Day Today"30——
"Would I Love You (Love You, Love You)"10——
"Shanghai"7——
"Domino"21——
1952"A Guy Is a Guy"1——
"Sugarbush" (w/ Frankie Laine)7128
"When I Fall in Love"20——
"No Two People" (w/ Donald OConnor)25——
"My Love and Devotion"—3110
"The Cherries"—39—
"A Full Time Job" (w/ Johnnie Ray) /202111
"Ma Says, Pa Says" (w/ Johnnie Ray)232812
1953"Mister Tap Toe"1011—
"When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin Along)"29——
"Candy Lips" (w/ Johnnie Ray) /1718—
"Lets Walk That-a-Way" (w/ Johnnie Ray)—314
"Kiss Me Again, Stranger" /30——
"A Purple Cow"25——
"Choo Choo Train (Ch-Ch-Foo)20——
1954"Secret Love"111
"The Black Hills of Dakota"——7
"Lost in Loveliness"—25—
"I Speak to the Stars"1617—
"Someone Elses Roses"—32—
"If I Give My Heart to You" /324
"Anyone Can Fall in Love"2741—
"Ready, Willing, and Able" /—317
"Hold Me in Your Arms"—39—
1955"Foolishly Yours"—25—
"Love Me Or Leave Me"——20
"Ill Never Stop Loving You"131417
"Ooh Bang Jiggily Jang"83——
1956"Let It Ring"51——
"Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)"231
"Julie" /6440—
"Love in a Home"79——
"The Partys Over"6347—
1957"Twelve OClock Tonight"68——
1958"Teachers Pet"5636—
"A Very Precious Love"——16
"Everybody Loves a Lover"6625
"Tunnel of Love"4353—
1959"Love Me in the Daytime"10051—
1960"Any Way the Wind Blows"50109—
"Please Dont Eat the Daisies"102102—
"A Perfect Understanding"111——
1962"Lover Come Back"98——
1964"Move Over Darling"——8
"Send Me No Flowers"135——
1967"Sorry" *———
* "Sorry" made the US AC charts at #19.
Albums
10" LP
Youre My Thrill (1949)
Young Man with a Horn (1950, soundtrack with Harry James)
Tea for Two (1950, soundtrack)
Lullaby of Broadway (1951, soundtrack)
On Moonlight Bay (1951, soundtrack)
Ill See You in My Dreams (1951, soundtrack)
By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953, soundtrack)
Calamity Jane (1953, soundtrack)
Young at Heart (1954, soundtrack with Frank Sinatra)
12" LPs
Love Me or Leave Me (1955, soundtrack)
Day Dreams (1955, expanded re-issue of Youre My Thrill)
Day By Day (1956)
The Pajama Game (1957, soundtrack)
Day by Night (1957)
Hooray for Hollywood (2 volumes, 1958)
Cuttin Capers (1959)
What Every Girl Should Know (1960)
Show Time (1960)
Listen to Day (1960)
Bright and Shiny (1961)
I Have Dreamed (1961)
Duet (with André Previn, 1962)
Youll Never Walk Alone (1962)
Billy Roses Jumbo (1962, soundtrack with film cast)
Annie Get Your Gun (1963, with Robert Goulet)
Love Him (1963)
The Doris Day Christmas Album (1964)
With a Smile and a Song (1964)
Latin for Lovers (1965)
Doris Days Sentimental Journey (1965)
The Love Album (recorded in 1967, released in 1994)
My Heart (2011)
Singles
Hit records:
(with Les Browns Band of Renown)
"Sentimental Journey"
5,000,000+ sales
"My Dreams Are Getting Better All The Time"
1,000,000+ sales
(As a solo performer)
"Its Magic"
1,000,000+ sales
"Again"
"Love Somebody" (duet with Buddy Clark)
1,000,000+ sales
"Confess" (duet with Buddy Clark) (also done by Patti Page)
"Bewitched"
1,000,000+ sales
"Shanghai"
"Sugarbush" (duet with Frankie Laine)
1,000,000+ sales
"Mister Tap Toe"
"Secret Love"
1,000,000+ sales
"If I Give My Heart to You" (also done by Denise Lor)
"Ill Never Stop Loving You"
1,000,000+ sales
"Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)" ("Que Sera, Sera")
1,000,000+ sales
"Everybody Loves a Lover"
"Move Over Darling"
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