One of the last big popular music stars from the 1940's.
>Actress And Singer Doris Day, Hollywood's Girl Next Door, Dies At 97
>Actress and singer Doris Day made nearly three dozen films and more than 600 recordings. At the height of her career, she topped both the billboard and the box office charts. Day died of pneumonia on Monday at the age of 97...
>...her career began as a big band "girl singer," and with Les Brown's big band she had one of the biggest hits of World War II: "A Sentimental Journey."
well, old gal definitely showed most of her peers, cheers to that. F
Julian Wood
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Henry Flores
Rock critics have painted her, Patti Page, and Dinah Shore as a three-headed monster of syrupy pop tunes that dominated the airwaves until Rock Around The Clock arrived.
Austin Reyes
didn't know she was alive desu
Adrian Martin
>97 years old Wow. I liked singing que sera sera in music class. F
Normal as Blueberry Pie: A Tribute to Doris Day [Verve, 2009] Though I wish I believed McKay would have discovered Day if the 87-year-old box office queen hadn't devoted half her adult life to animal rights, the spritz, groove, sweetness and delight of this project not only raise Day from the shallow grave of the camp canon but give McKay a chance to grow up without going all sententious or stodgy. If by some mischance she's contracted the writer's block that can afflict kids who've spent years unable to staunch the river of new songs within--the only original is one of the few forgettables--then McKay has a future as an interpreter. At first the jazzy lightness of her arrangements seems like a distortion. But when you compare Day's "Crazy Rhythm" or "Do Do Do"--even the radio transcription of "Sentimental Journey" or a "Wonderful Guy" so much less brassy than Mary Martin's--you remember that like every Cincinnati girl of her era Day grew up with swing and probably resented the orchestral overkill she was saddled with. McKay's covers are jazzier and kookier than anything Day would have dared, or wanted. But to borrow language she's used for Day, they're "uncluttered, sensual and free, driven by an irrepressible will to live." A
There is something incredibly comfy about old orchestral pop from the 40's and 50's. It's kind of unfortunate that the genre got BTFO so hard by changing tastes in the 60's.
David Fisher
That's surprisingly kinder words for DD than I would have expected from him.
Jace Perry
Would I Love You is fun in a cheesy way.
Benjamin Rodriguez
>and probably resented the orchestral overkill she was saddled with
I'd resent too.
Sebastian Lee
I only know that song because of the Simpsons.
Christopher Harris
Good voice. The 50s was obviously her artistic heyday but some of her 60s material wasn't bad.
Cooper Myers
Come on, guys. She was in her 40s by that point and forgive them if they wanted her to be in more mature roles and de-sexualize her a bit.
French jazz critic Boris Vian, who was generally suspicious of non-black jazz/variety artists in the late 40s/50s, and could indeed be pretty harsh on them, thought highly of her.
Apparently she didn't find out until her last years that she was born in 1922, not 24, although this seems a bit of a stretch and it may just be that her parents fudged her age on an audition form for a talent show.
Kayden Kelly
I liked how she stood by Rock Hudson's side and supported him when he publicly announced he had AIDS. A real class act. RIP.
Nicholas Cox
Like a lot of people, I suspect, I'm tantalised by what might have happened if she'd accepted the role of Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate.
It could have revived her movie career and might have given her singing career a real link to the counterculture (which was already available to her, sort of, via her son, but she didn't seem to make any use of it). As she was a Republican and fairly right-leaning politically, I'm not sure though if that would have appealed to her.
Owen Ortiz
>I can only regard people from the past as fully human if I pretend they shared my values People didn't expect to like the same kind of music all their lives before the rock generation's massive imaginative failure to launch. Day probably loved her orchestral arrangments. Deal with it.
It's not about Day you illiterate, it's about a woman who did a tribute album.
Easton Robinson
She had lots of Hollywood rock & roll connections....from Kim Fowley (worked for her husband early on) to the Beach Boys (her son worked with Bruce Johnson etc.) and even Charlie Manson (the Cielo Drive murders were originally intended as a retaliation against Terry as well).
Angel Ramirez
That's because they're misogynist little boys, committed to the myth that rock was neccesary or a good thing. If you stop listening to white music at about 1956, and pick it up again in 1970, you lose nothing of lasting value.
Luke Wilson
>People didn't expect to like the same kind of music all their lives before the rock generation's massive imaginative failure to launch What does that mean?
Angel Hernandez
literally who is doris day?
Luke Gray
Too bad though, she had a lot of hardship in her personal life given her son's premature demise and being married several times to abusive husbands.
Off the record, John Lennon was an admirer of Doris Day. He spoke about her with reverence during the Let It Be sessions as well as mentioning her in "Dig It" on the Get Back/Let It Be albums.
What I mean, you retard, is that people in those days were expected to grow the fuck up and not act like they were 21 forever.
Elijah Ross
Doris Day was essentially a clout martyr.
Everyone is claiming this was a random robbery, but it's clear what was actually happening: her killers were driven to take her life solely for the sake of clout. They wanted infamy of their own and found it in gunning down a 97-year old.
As Doris was taking his final breath, she was surrounded by kids taking video and pictures of her. Why? For clout. No one was taking her pulse, no one was calling 911, everyone was standing around with their phones out as her body was clinging to life.
The moral lesson of Doris Day's life story should be a cautionary tale of the horrors of social media and how it's fucked our society beyond belief.
Yea Forums now is entirely GoT threads, people complaining that GoT is taken over by liberals, and people crying because there was a black lesbian n Star Wars or Marvel or some shit.
Matthew Butler
They have no idea who she was.
Jaxon Moore
get a load of this guy
Jacob Walker
He does have a habit of projecting his own beliefs onto the artist eg. that one Blue Oyster Cult review.
Samuel Davis
I think you're right. She was probably the last living person to have had a major hit song in the 40s since Vic Damone died last year.
Wyatt Cox
Not the last film star though since Kirk Douglas and Olivia De Havilland are still around.
David Powell
>but some of her 60s material wasn't bad. Latin For Lovers was a decent attempt at bandwagoning the 60s bossa nova fad.
Alexander Brown
Apparently she wasn't keen on live performances and didn't do them very well.
Jeremiah Lewis
My nan never liked female singers very much, but she always loved Doris.
Her charity the Doris Day Animal Foundation announcer her death. They stated that she had been in good health for her age until succumbing to pneumonia. I could believe it--she was still giving interviews as late as late year and looked darn good for 96 or whatever and was still fully with it mentally.
Michael Hall
There is still Vera Lynn. Her first big hit ('We'll Meet Again') was released in 1939.
Ok thanks. I admit this vid has sexier pics than the other one which just had photos of some record label.
Brayden Hill
Maybe (sort of) Petula Clark since she was a radio star on the BBC since she was 9 years old and cut her first record in 1949, but nobody this side of the Atlantic knew about her until 1964.
Ian Lee
Her first UK hit was in 54 so she doesn't really count as belonging to the 40s at all.
Robert Richardson
10/10 made me lol
Cameron Martinez
Harry Belafonte had a moderate hit in 1949 with a song called "Lean On Me."
