Doris Day - Golden Girl: Columbia Recordings 1944-1966 (2CD)
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Canadian Music Store CD DetailsArtist: Doris DayEdition: Music CD Format: Original recording remastered CD Release Date: 1999-06-01 Music Label: Sony Soundtracks: Music CD 1
Music reviews of Golden Girl: Columbia Recordings 1944-1966 (2CD)Music Review: We never DO forget our first love, do we?
Doris was the first singer/actress I ever got a crush on. My older sister bought her recording of "A Guy is a Guy" in 1952, when I was eight. That catchy novelty love song just hooked me somehow, and I borrowed her 78 rpm of it and played it over and over. The following year, I saw her on screen in "Calamity Jane" and totally lost my heart. The way she performed "Secret Love" and "The Black Hills of Dakota" compelled me to see that movie twice, the first time I'd ever done something like that. I never outgrew Doris Day. Ten years later she was filming "Pillow Talk" and I was still a fan. She quit making records in the late '60's, about the time I was drafted for Vietnam. She ended her big screen career in 1968, when I was coming back from the war. Thank goodness for television, where she starred in "The Doris Day Show" for the next five years. My busy life didn't let me see every episode, but I enjoyed her every time I did get to watch in those pre-VCR days.Oddly enough, I never owned a large number of her Columbia LP's in those days. I bought more singles, by that time on 45 rpm. So finding this two-disc, two-hour collection has pleased me enormously. Almost all of my favorite Day performances are on it, with the notable exception of "Young at Heart" from the melodramatic movie she did with a morose Sinatra and a cheery Gig Young. But "Sentimental Journey" from 1944 is here, and so is "It's Magic" and "That Old Feeling" and "Too Marveous For Words", along with "I Only Have Eyes for You" and "Lullaby of Broadway" and "On Moonlight Bay." AND THAT'S JUST THE FIRST CD! The second disc is even better, with all the great '50's and early '60's hits. In addition to the songs I mentioned early in my review, you find "April in Paris" and "Que Sera Sera" and "There Once Was a Man", along with "Everybody Loves a Lover" and "Pillow Talk" and "Lover Come Back" and "My Romance." Yes, some of the 48 tunes are fluff, but others are great American songbag performances by a great American girl singer. Lots of singers got a chance at movies, like Peggy Lee and Lena Horne and Julie London. Several actresses got a shot at recording fame, such as Debbie Reynolds and Marilyn Monroe. Only Doris got to the top in both worlds and stayed there nearly 15 years. Find out why by purchasing this cool compilation of square music. Then go rent "Calamity Jane" and "Pillow Talk" and "The Pajama Game" and "The Man Who Knew Too Much" and "Love Me or Leave Me." Doris earned her pay, and was worthy of her fans. Toward the end of her career, sophisticates made fun of her because she was playing good virginal girls well into her 40's. Heck, we live in an age in which Britney Spears couldn't pull that off even before age 20. Give me Doris instead.
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