Doris Day will be a pleasant singer how beautifully. She is an old good American symbol. I like CD Jacket Photo very much,and her songs too.
March 23, 2007This is a great place to start if you want to sample the great voice and singing of Doris Day, possibly the most underrated vocalist and actress of the post 1940's generation. I just love her voice. As smooth as honey melting in your mouth, with just the right touch of sexiness under the surface. She never overpowered a song with vocal histrionics, but sang with a purity of heart that was so natural, it made you feel she was singing just for you. You get a great overview of her versatility here: band songs, early ballads, novelty songs, top 40's hits, movie songs and some obscure gems. Of course, you cant squeeze every highlight of her career on 2 cd's so dont expect this to cover everything, but most if not all her big hits are here. The only thing preventing me from giving this 5 stars is the set is topheavy with 40s and her early 50's recordings, leaving her late 50's and 60's work only sparsely covered. Hopefully this will lead you to check this period out as well more throughly (The 1960's Singles CD set does this nicely) The Bear sets are great too if you can afford them, (but even they dont include every song she recorded). I keep hoping Doris will finally get the recongition she deserves. She certainly deserves some type of Lifetime Achievement Award from somebody!
January 6, 2006 |  | Great Day in the Morning - and at Night |  |
There are many, many Doris Day collections on the market but if you had to have just one, GOLDEN GIRL is the one to go with. 25 vintage tracks spanning her twenty year career at Columbia Records. Included are almost all of her biggest hits from the Oscar-winning movie songs "Secret Love" and "Que Sera Sera" to her comic prim/sexual blockbuster single "A Guy is a Guy" which predates her famous sex-comedy movies by a half decade to her earliest recordings when she was just a big band "girl singer" and not yet a solo star and chalked up a 40's classic with "Sentimental Journey". From the jazzy "Cuttin' Capers" to the 60's novelty "Let the Little Girl Limbo", Doris was always a complete pro in the studio and sang every note with all her heart and credibility. My two top favorites from the collection couldn't be more different, her stunningly wistful "I'll Never Stop Loving You" from LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME and the very mod and very hip 60's twister "Move Over Darling" (co-written by her talented late son, songwriter-producer Terry Melcher), this two disc collection is a outstanding explanation why Doris Day has been loved by America and the world like few other stars.
May 25, 2005I am a Doris Day fan, so I'm prejudiced. But this is a great compilation. I first heard a Doris Day song when I was quite young, and at the time I didn't know the name of the singer, but I knew I liked the song. The song was "Love Somebody." Later I heard more songs by her, and again I didn't pick up her name: "Shanghai" and "A Guy Is A Guy." By the time I found out who sang these songs, I was hooked. And finally, in 1954 she sang the song that has ever since become my own favorite, "Secret Love." Obviously, any collection that has all four of the songs that made me a Doris Day fan has to be special to me, and this one has them all.
But above and beyond my own personal favorites, this collection includes her two #1 hits as a big band singer before setting out on her own ("Sentimental Journey" and "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time"), the song that became her theme song ("Whatever Will Be, Will Be"), a LOT of her movie title songs, and altogether almost 50 different great performances by my favorite singer. If 5 stars means "I love it!", 5 stars is what it gets. I'd give it 6 if I could! June 6, 2004
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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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