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Doris Day: Careers
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This ambitious two-CD release from Columbia is not strictly a soundtrack release but, as it features many songs written for and featured in some of the classic films that starred Doris Day, it is definitely worth a mention. The collection includes forty-eight songs originally recorded by Columbia between 1944 and 1966. Many of Doris Day's songs form part of a generation's popular music. Doris Day was one of the most successful singers of the 1950s, with a parallel career in films that was just as successful. This collection demonstrates her talent, her unique style and her versatility.
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Doris Day has achieved iconic status. In addition to becoming a perpetually adored actress via her spectacular film career, she is ... an irresistible singer, bringing an air of sparkling vitality and radiant freshness to every song she sings. In fact, in terms of today’s media, Doris remains as popular as she ever was.
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Doris grew up in a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. She started out a dancer, but at an early age an automobile accident prevented her from furthering a career in dance. She began taking singing more seriously after her accident and her mother got her a vocal coach. It wasn't too long after that, that she was able to get jobs singing. The band leader Barney Rapp was opening a club and looking for a female vocalist and picked her. He wanted to put her name on the marquee but thought that Kappelhoff was too awkward of a name and they arrived at Day (inspired from the song “Day After Day”).
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Recorded late in 1961, this album is a milestone in Doris Day's career -- despite having generated no hits -- as her best long-player (and, by extension, her best CD), and her purest jazz solo album. Cut ...Read full review
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