Doris Day – Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera) + You Made Me Love You (I Didn’t Want To Do It) (1956)

I have to reduce my singles collection:

Doris Day (born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff; 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 & 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.

Day’s 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 Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) with James Stewart. Her most successful films were the ones 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, James Stewart, 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).

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 Association’s Career Achievement Award. She was one of the last surviving stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood. (by wikipedia)

And here ar two nice Pop or Eady Listening tunes from two different movies (“The Man Who Know Too Much” and “Love Me Or Leave Me”).

Not my kind of music, but of course an important part of the popluar US music in the 50s.

Personnel:
Doris Day (vocals)
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Frank DeVal Orchestra (on 01.)
Pery Faith Orchestra (on 02.)

Tracklist:
01. Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera) (Livingston/Evans) (from the film “The Man Who Know Too Much”) 2.16
02. You Made Me Love You (I Didn’t Want To Do It) (Monaco/McCarthy Sr.) (from the film “Love Me Or Leave Me”) 2.27

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More from Doris Day:

The offical website:

VA – Good Time Gold – Christmas (2002)

Okay, it´s christmas time again:

Christmas, a Christian holiday honoring the birth of Jesus, has evolved into a worldwide religious and secular celebration, incorporating many pre-Christian and pagan traditions into the festivities.

Christmas is a Christian festival celebrating the birth of Jesus. The English term Christmas (“mass on Christ’s day”) is of fairly recent origin. The earlier term Yule may have derived from the Germanic jōl or the Anglo-Saxon geōl, which referred to the feast of the winter solstice. The corresponding terms in other languages—Navidad in Spanish, Natale in Italian, Noël in French—all probably denote nativity. The German word Weihnachten denotes “hallowed night.” Since the early 20th century, Christmas has also been a secular family holiday, observed by Christians and non-Christians alike, devoid of Christian elements, and marked by an increasingly elaborate exchange of gifts. In this secular Christmas celebration, a mythical figure named Santa Claus plays the pivotal role.

And I will bring during December a lot of christmas music from all over the world.

And I beginn with a real nice Chritmas sampler from Time Life … with a lot of old fashioned christmas tunes … I guess you´ll know most of them.

And I hope you like it, like me.

Tracklist:
01. Bing Crosby: White Christmas (Berlin) 3.04
02. Frank Sinatra: Silent Night (Mohr/GRuber) 3.18
03. Perry Como: Jingle Bells (Pierpont) 3.00
04. Gene Autry: Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer (Marks) 3.13
05. Judy Garland: Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (Martin/Blane) 2.39
06. Dick Haymes: Christmas Dreaming (Gordon/Lee) 2.41
07. Doris Day: The Christmas Song (Torme/Wells) 3.16
08. Bing Crosby: God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman (Traditional) 2.19
09. Dinah Shore: O Little Town Of Betlehem (Redner) 2.10
10. Frank Sinatra: Adeste Fideles (O Come All Ye Faithful) (Traditional) 2.39
11. The Andrews Sisters: Christmas Island (Moraine) 2.39
12. Nelson Eddy: The First Noel (Traditional) 1.49
13. Vera Lynn: The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot (Corner/Carr/Leach) 2.54
14. Vaughn Monroe: Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! (Cahn/Styne) 3.13
15. Judy Garland: Merry Christmas (Spielman/Torre) 2.46
16. Gene Autry: Here Comes Santa Claus (Autry/Haldeman) 2.33
17. Perry Como: I’ll Be Home For Christmas (Kent/Ram/Gannon) 2.56
18. Frank Sinatra: Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (Gillespie/Coots) 2.35
19. Mel Tormé: What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? (Loesser) 3.01
20. Bing Crosby: Let’s Start The New Year Right (Berlin) 2.37

 

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Various Artists – An Easy Christmas (2001)

This is just a sampler, full with 20 old and classic christmas songs, performed by many stars in the easy listening style.
You can hear singers like Don McLean, David Bowie, Andy Williams, Nat King Cole, Doris Day, Perry Como and Al Green.

“This is my most favourite christmas album ever-I had to order a second copy as the first had a scratch on. I listen to it all the time. Not your average Christmas album!”(by miss r aughton)

“Great to listen to while wrapping presents” (by Zoe Bell)

And I guess, I will play this album (amongst others) on December 24, 2016 … Enjoy this romantic and sentimental sampler.

Tracklist:
01. Andy Williams: Most Wonderful Time Of Year (2001) (Pola/Wyle) 2.34
02. Nat King Cole: Christmas Song (1963) (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) (Tormé/Wells) 3.14
03. Eartha Kitt: Santa Baby (1953) (Javits/Springer) 3.26
04. Dean Martin: Let It Snow Let It Snow Let It Snow (1965) (Cahn/Styne) 1.58
05. Judy Garland: Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (1944) (Martin/Blane) 2.45
06. Harry Belafonte: Mary’s Boy Child (1957) (Hairston) 2.59
07. Bing Crosby: White Christmas (1954) (Berlin) 3.04
08. Al Green: Silent Night (1963) (Gruber/Mohr) 3.19
09. Crystal Gayle: Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer (1996) (Marks) 2.57
10. Anne Murray: Snowbird (1978) (MacLellan) 2.11
11. Don McLean: Winter Wonderland (1991) (Bernard/Smith) 2.54
12. Charles Brown: Please Come Home For Christmas (Christmas Finds Me Oh So Sad) (1961) (Brown/Redd) 3.18
13. Doris Day: I’ll Be Home For Christmas (1964) (Gannon/Kent/Ram) 2.27
14. Andy Williams: Sleigh Ride (live) (2001) (Anderson) 2.22
15. Crystal Gayle: Silver Bells (1996) (Livingston/Evans) 4.09
16. Don McLean: Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town (1991) (Coots/Gillespie) 3.06
17. Perry Como: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (1959)(Traditional) 2.56
18. Al Green: What Christmas Means To Me (1963) (Story/Gaye/ Gordy) 3.44
19. Bing Crosby + David Bowie: Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy (1977) (Fraser/Grossman/Alan Kohan/Simeone/Davis/Onorati) 2.38
20. Michael Ball: Happy New Year (1999) (Andersson/Ulvaeus) 4.18

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Doris Day – Day By Day (1956)

By the winter of 1956-1957, Doris Day had become a respectable, even spectacular record seller, as long as her recordings were tied into her film projects. Her soundtrack album of songs from her film Love Me or Leave Me, a biopic about Ruth Etting, had been the longest-running number one hit of 1955 and “Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera),” the theme from the Alfred Hitchcock thriller The Man Who Knew Too Much, in which she starred, was a gold-selling Top Five hit in 1956. But Day’s non-film recordings were less assured of a commercial reception. Day by Day, an LP without a movie tie-in, was her attempt to change that, and it was largely successful. Frank Sinatra had demonstrated the possibilities of the concept album, in which a single mood was sustained throughout an entire LP, and Day and her conductor, Paul Weston, tried out the idea on Day by Day, assembling a group of love songs mostly from the 1930s and ’40s (the only exception being “Autumn Leaves”) and giving them all intimate, small-band arrangements. Day’s convincing, conversational tone was perfect for the approach, at least to the extent that she conveyed warmth and understanding of the lyrics. Unlike, say, Sinatra, however, she did not take the opportunity to plumb the depths of those words; when she sang Gershwin & Gershwin’s “But Not for Me,” for example, she stayed on the surface, never exploring the heartbreak that the song wittily detailed. That was the way a band singer of the ’40s would do it, and Day was a band singer of the ’40s. So was Sinatra, but he had found reason to change, while Day had not. Nevertheless, Day by Day made the Top Ten, demonstrating that Day could sell records without a cinematic association. (by William Ruhlmann)

 
Alternate frontcover

Personnel:
Doris Day (vocals)
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The Paul Weston Orchestra

Tracklist:
01. The Song Is You (Kern/Hammerstein II) 3.21
02. Hello, My Lover, Goodbye (Green/Heyman) 3.40
03. But Not For Me (G.Gershwin/I.Gershwin) 2.40
04. I Remember You (Schertzinger/Mercer) 4.03
05. I Hadn’t Anyone Till You (Noble) 3.06
06. But Beautiful (van Heusen/Burke) 3.26
07. Autumn Leaves (Kosma/Prévert/Mercer) 3.05
08. Don’t Take Your Love From Me (Nemo) 3.26
09. There Will Never Be Another You (Warren/Gordon) 2.46
10. Gone With The Wind (Magidson/Wrubel) 2.50
11. The Gypsy In My Soul (Boland/Jaffe) 3.06
12. Day By Day (Stordahl/Weston/Cahn) 3.28

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