Favorite Doris Day Song- Page 2

[BrendanStryker]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 3:18pm

Marquise, what does that mean?

[Marquise]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 3:19pm

You had to be there papi....

[PalJoey]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 3:46pm

Please.

Please.

Don't eat the daisies.



Don't eat the daisies.

Please.

[Marquise]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 3:47pm

She musta been on drugs when she recorded that...

[kjklo]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 3:57pm

There was a song in The West Point Story called "Ten Thousand Four Hundred and Thirty-Two Sheep" which she sang with a group of cadets. That was kind of cute in a typical slighty annoying way. Doris was doing a lot of her famous blinking-and-nodding-for-emphasis in that one.

Yes, it was very satisfying to see Jimmy Stewart sedating Doris. Didn't he get to slap her silly also? He said something like "You know how you get when you're nervous." It was all very repressed and fifties.

[kjklo]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 4:05pm

And remember her wafting through her apartment in Lover Come Back, musing on whether to have sex with Rock Hudson, while singing 'Should I Surrender?'

[Marquise]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 5:24pm

I'm not big on Doris Day or her movies. I find them too "corny" for my taste but I have to admit LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME and PAJAMA GAME are two of my favorite films.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 6:04pm

Of course you love them, 'Quise. How could you not?

I know you so well...

[Marquise]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 6:42pm

I was just re-reading my last post.
I didn't mean to write Doris Day herself was corny.
I happen to think she was a good actress with a beautiful singing voice.
What I meant to write was that some of her films like Glass Bottom Boat and Send Me No Flowers were corny.



Updated On: 12/18/05 at 06:42 PM

[Glebb]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 11:05pm

Love Me or Leave Me and Pillow Talk are two of my favorites.
"Ya ya roly-poly".

Oh, On Moonlight Bay and I'll See You in my Dreams are fab too.

[kjklo]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 11:28pm

Anyone who likes On Moonlight Bay should also enjoy By the Light of the Silvery Moon. I remember Merv Griffin had a bit part in one of them (don't recall which).

April in Paris with Ray Bolger was also great fun. I watched all of her movies, repeatedly, on TV in the sixties.

[Glebb]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 11:28pm

I love Doris Day movies.

[kjklo]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 11:37pm

I always had a love/hate thing with them and her. In one way they embarrassed me, but in another way I was oddly obsessed. I would ridicule her, yet never miss a single broadcast.

[Glebb]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 11:40pm

I'm really in the mood to watch 'ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND.'

[BrendanStryker]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 11:42pm

No love/hate here, just love. I LOVE Doris Day. The like of her will never be seen again.

[kjklo]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 11:52pm

Both Edmund Wilson and John Updike were, surprisingly, attracted to her.

Do you remember the sixties rumors that she was having affairs with Maury Wills, from the Dodgers, and Sly, from Sly and the Family Stone?

[Glebb]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 11:54pm

Not I.

[BrendanStryker]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 11:59pm

Why surprising? She had one of, if not THE best body in all of Hollywood!

[kjklo]

Posted: 12/19/05 at 12:04am

Surprising to me, I guess, because it was so all-american butch, and not the European look that I assumed intellectuals of the time fancied. Doris had a gym teacher's body. Yes, it was good, but not that era's notion of sophisticated or erotic.

[justme2]

Posted: 12/19/05 at 2:45am

DG, thank you...that is indeed the song I was remembering. A beautiful song, with haunting strains.

[Garland Grrrl]

Posted: 12/19/05 at 12:15pm

i love doris day. completely underrated as an artist. she had it all. looks, sex appeal (an AMAZING BODY!), charisma, singing, affinity for comedy and drama ~ and she was a HUGE star in her day. i can't think of anyone today who comes close.
i love her singing anything from LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME (but my favorite of her lighter films is THE THRILL OF IT ALL with james garner ~ where she does happy soap tv commercials)

[touchmeinthemorning]

Posted: 12/19/05 at 12:24pm

I'll Never Stop Loving You


--such phrasing -- who does that kind of phrasing now? No one.

[WonderBoy]

Posted: 12/19/05 at 12:53pm

Too many to choose! "Teacher's Pet" and "Little Girl Blue" quickly jump to mind though.

[Mamie]

Posted: 12/19/05 at 1:06pm

This time of the year I get to hear my favorite Christmas carol. Doris' "Silver Bells". While the rest of the family was going ape over miniature country villages under the tree, I always felt the best place to be at Christmas was the city. I think this song deserves a lot of the credit for that.

[BrendanStryker]

Posted: 12/19/05 at 1:07pm

--such phrasing -- who does that kind of phrasing now? No one.

That's because most people don't know how to sing a song, anymore. It's all riffs and runs. People find it impossible to just sing notes and interpret a tune. When was the last time you actually heard someone just sing a song, and not put in 5 or 6 notes, where one ought to be? Sad, really.