Track Listing

1. It's Magic (From "Romance On The High Seas")
2. Move Over Darling (From "Move Over Darling")
3. Singin' In The Rain (From "Singin' In The Rain")
4. Secret Love (From "Calamity Jane")
5. Pretty Baby (From "I'll See You In My Dreams")
6. Whatever Will Be, Will Be (From "The Man Who Knew Too Much")
7. Anything You Can Do (From "Annie Get Your Gun")
8. The Very Thought Of You (From "Young Man With A Horn")
9. As Long As He Needs Me (From "Oliver")
10. The Party's Over (From "Bells Are Ringing")
11. Getting To Know You (From "The King And I")
12. The Sound Of Music (From "The Sound Of Music")
13. A Wonderful Guy (From "South Pacific")
14. When I Fall In Love (From "Sleepless In Seattle")
15. Lover Come Back (From "Lover Come Back")
16. High Hopes (From "Antz")
17. The Deadwood Stage (From "Calamity Jane")
18. I'm Not At All In Love (From "The Pajama Game")
19. The Tunnel Of Love [Take 1] (From "The Tunnel Of Love")
20. Pillow Talk (From "Pillow Talk")
21. White Christmas (From "Holiday Inn")
22. You'll Never Walk Alone (From "Carousel")
23. Three Coins In A Fountain (From "Three Coins In A Fountain")
24. I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles (From "On Moonlight Bay")
25. Teacher's Pet (From "Teacher's Pet")

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18789 in Music
• Released on: 2003-02-10
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Album Description
"This collection brings together 25 magical movie tunes all digitally restored and remastered from the vaults at Columbia. Prepare to be dazzled by America's leading lady of song with classic recordings from 1947 to 1964. Tracks 7, 19 & 22 are Previously Unreleased in the UK on CD format".

About the Artist
DORIS DAY (born: Doris Mary Anne Von Kappelhoff - 3rd April 1924 - Cincinnati Ohio, USA) "Pop icon" and "movie legend" are probably fair descriptions of the American sweetheart who dominated much of the 1950s and ‘60s with her 39 feature films and 16 top40 singles in the UK alone. Who else could I mean but everyone’s favourite girl-next-door Doris Day. It was in 1946, after a successful run as a band singer, that Doris signed a solo record contract with music giant Columbia Records. This would herald the start of a very productive partnership which would see her capitalise on the popularity she had earned through her work with Les Brown’s band. Already having scored with him a huge million-seller Sentimental Journey (1945), her singing career continued to flourish over an intense 3 decades. This meant hundreds more beautiful Day recordings (some of which are exemplified here) with a variety of hit singles like It’s Magic (1948), Secret Love (1954), Que Sera Sera (1956) and Move Over Darling (1964), as well as countless studio albums which received critical and commercial acclaim.

If this wasn’t impressive enough, in 1947 a very young Doris Day also began her transition into motion pictures, initially signing to Warner Bros. A score of musical and dramatic roles followed, with her career reaching new heights as a result of a glowing performance alongside leading man Rock Hudson in romantic-comedy Pillow Talk (1959). For this role she was nominated at the Oscars for "Best Actress". Soon after Ms. Day had established herself as America’s #1 box-office attraction retaining this prestigious position with further releases such as Lover Come Back (1961) and That Touch of Mink (1962). During the late 1960s, Doris began slowly but surely taking a step back from Hollywood’s fast paced showbiz world. Leaving the big screen for a succession of hugely popular prime time television shows. By the mid 1970s, she was all but ready to leave the glitzy spotlight of Tinseltown for the serene comforts of Carmel-by-the-sea. Publishing her memoirs in her #1 best-seller Her Own Story (1975) was her way to close one chapter in order to begin something just as exciting and rewarding. The now homely star focused her new found time and energy on a cause she had felt for many years very impassioned over. This was the provision of animal welfare for which over subsequent years she was instrumental in establishing animal charities like her current day organisations the Doris Day Animal Foundation and Doris Day Animal League. No matter whether the Doris Day of today [who fast approaches her landmark 80th birthday in 2004] ever chooses to return to the world of entertainment there is no denying her legacy of music and film will remain forever young in the hearts of the people who discover it.

Customer Reviews

Outstanding Value - Rarities, Hits and so much more!
This collection brings together some of Doris Day's best soundtrack songs and cover versions of popular movie tunes.

The CD release by Sony Music England is aimed to give fans ultra-value for money, much like its sister-release from 1998 "Best of Doris Day" (Cat # 4837222). It also features a mino bio and some pretty pictures!

Additionally, and most importantly it highlights some beautiful recordings from Doris's "You'll Never Walk Alone", "Annie Get Your Gun" and "With a Smile and A Song" studio albums including 4 songs which debut on CD format in the UK.

Brilliant compilation of movie songs
With the possible exception of Barbra Streisand, Doris was the most successful singer-actress of the twentieth century - and I'm referring to those who were equally regarded as both singers and actresses. This compilation features many songs from movies that Doris starred in, but it also includes songs from other movies that Doris recorded simply because she wanted to.

Although this is not a greatest hits package, it features several songs that became big hits for Doris including Move over darling (a UK top ten hit in the sixties), Whatever will be will be and Secret love (both UK number one hits) although Black hills of Dakota and I'll never stop loving you are among her hits that are missing despite their use in soundtracks.

Of the movies that Doris starred in, Calamity Jane is represented by Secret love and The deadwood stage. Other songs from her own movies included here are It's magic, Move over darling, Tunnel of love, Pillow talk, Teacher's pet and Whatever will be will be - but a lot of her own movie songs have been omitted to make way for covers of other movie songs including Let's face the music and dance, Three coins in the fountain, Singing in the rain, You'll never walk alone, The sound of music, White Christmas and High hopes.

It is worth noting that many of these songs are also available on another UK compilation, 41 Hollywood greats, which is also a collection of songs from the movies.

This is a magnificent collection but if you're looking for the definitive collection of Doris Day's songs from the movies she acted and sang in, this isn't it. Indeed, I'm not sure that such a collection has been released. Just enjoy this collection for what it is - a brilliant selection of movie songs generally.

Great selection, great movies
Doris' voice on this cd is so good, and she sings all the different songs so well that you wonder why she was never cast in the roles anyway. She sings the 'Sound of Music' beautifully, and 'Anything you can do I can do better' really well also. It's a lovely collection and its great to hear how talented she was. And its good to sing along to as well!