Wonderful Day (Remastered Edition) Doris Day

• 1Lover Come Back02:15
• 2Pillow Talk02:10
• 3Be Prepared02:32
• 4Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)02:05
• 5It's Magic03:38
• 6Never Look Back02:25
• 7Should I Surrender?02:38
• 8Teacher's Pet02:35
• 9When You're Smiling02:38
• 10Possess Me02:51
• 11Julie02:12
• 12Till My Love Comes to Me03:16
• Total Runtime31:15

Info for Wonderful Day (Remastered Edition)

"Pop icon" and "movie legend" are probably fair descriptions of the American sweetheart who dominated much of the 1950s and ‘60s with her 39 feature films and 16 top40 singles in the UK alone. Who else could I mean but everyone’s favorite girl-next-door Doris Day.

It was in 1946, after a successful run as a band singer, that Doris signed a solo record contract with music giant Columbia Records. This would herald the start of a very productive partnership which would see her capitalize on the popularity she had earned through her work with Les Brown’s band. Already having scored with him a huge million-seller Sentimental Journey (1945), her singing career continued to flourish over an intense 3 decades. This meant hundreds more beautiful Day recordings (some of which are exemplified here) with a variety of hit singles like It’s Magic (1948), Secret Love (1954), Que Sera Sera (1956) and Move Over Darling (1964), as well as countless studio albums which received critical and commercial acclaim.

If this wasn't’t impressive enough, in 1947 a very young Doris Day also began her transition into motion pictures, initially signing to Warner Bros. A score of musical and dramatic roles followed, with her career reaching new heights as a result of a glowing performance alongside leading man Rock Hudson in romantic-comedy Pillow Talk (1959). For this role she was nominated at the Oscars for "Best Actress". Soon after Ms. Day had established herself as America’s #1 box-office attraction retaining this prestigious position with further releases such as Lover Come Back (1961) and That Touch of Mink (1962).

During the late 1960s, Doris began slowly but surely taking a step back from Hollywood’s fast paced showbiz world. Leaving the big screen for a succession of hugely popular prime time television shows.

By the mid 1970s, she was all but ready to leave the glitzy spotlight of Tinseltown for the serene comforts of Carmel-by-the-sea. Publishing her memoirs in her #1 best-seller Her Own Story (1975) was her way to close one chapter in order to begin something just as exciting and rewarding.

The now homey star focused her new found time and energy on a cause she had felt for many years very impassioned over. This was the provision of animal welfare for which over subsequent years she was instrumental in establishing animal charities like her current day organizations the Doris Day Animal Foundation and Doris Day Animal League.

No matter whether the Doris Day of today [who fast approaches her landmark 80th birthday in 2004] ever chooses to return to the world of entertainment there is no denying her legacy of music and film will remain forever young in the hearts of the people who discover it.

Doris Day, vocals

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Doris Day
(born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff; April 3, 1924) is an American actress and singer, and an outspoken animal rights activist since her retirement from show business. Her entertainment career began in the 1940s as a big band singer. In 1945 she had her first hit recording, "Sentimental Journey". In 1948, she appeared in her first film, Romance on the High Seas. During her entertainment career, she appeared in 39 films, recorded more than 650 songs, received an Academy Award nomination, won a Golden Globe and a Grammy Award, and, in 1989, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures.

As of 2009, Day was the top-ranking female box office star of all time and ranked sixth among the top ten box office performers (male and female).

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