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"The mood of these songs is dreamy," writes annotator Pete Martin, thus defining the theme of Doris Day's second LP of 1961. As usual, someone -- Day herself, her conductor, a Columbia Records A&R person -- had chosen a theme for her album and picked a group of songs, most of them interwar standards that derived from stage musicals or movies. Dreaminess was a concept familiar to any band singer of the 1940s, and Day was such a singer, so she certainly knew her way around "I'll Buy That Dream," even if the hit versions of the 1945 song were by such competitors as Helen Forrest (with Dick Haymes) and Kitty Kallen (as vocalist with Harry James' band). Her vocal style, warm, but never actually sensual, had always conformed to the unruffled approach of the '40s band singers, and she was right at home exploring sedate nighttime fantasy. Actually, though, the concept was a bit threadbare by now; Day had already recorded "Dream a Little Dream of Me" and "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)" on her 1958 album Day by Night, and obvious choices such as "Dream," "I Had the Craziest Dream," and "Darn That Dream" were eschewed in favor of a handful of unknown songs. Day did well by such unusual theater choices as "My Ship" from Lady in the Dark and "Someday I'll Find You" from Private Lives, and orchestra director Jim Harbert (who contributed his own "I Believe in Dreams") swathed everything in blankets of strings. But the album was not all it could have been, and the use of second-rate material and a second-rate conductor suggested that Columbia was losing faith in Day as a recording artist after years of poor sales. Ironically, it became her first new album to chart since 1957.
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
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Doris Day, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Jim Harbert, Conductor - J. HARBERT, Composer - Unknown, Producer - Mark Wilder, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
Originally released 1961. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Doris Day, Associated Performer, Main Artist - H. Hagidson, Composer, Lyricist - A. Wrubel, Composer, Lyricist
Originally released 1961. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Doris Day, Associated Performer, Main Artist - K. Weil, Composer, Lyricist - Ira Gershwin, Composer, Lyricist
Originally released 1961. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Doris Day, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Errol Brown, Composer, Lyricist - Freed, Composer, Lyricist
Originally released 1961. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Doris Day, Associated Performer, Main Artist - S.Romberg, Composer, Lyricist - Oscar Hammerstein II, Composer, Lyricist - Jim Harbert, Conductor
Originally released 1961. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Doris Day, Associated Performer, Main Artist - I. Livingston, Composer, Lyricist - Ray Evans, Composer, Lyricist
Originally released 1956. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Doris Day, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Jim Harbert, Conductor - Richard Rodgers, Composer - Oscar Hammerstein II, Lyricist - Orchestra, Associated Performer
Originally released 1961. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Doris Day, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Jim Harbert, Conductor - Paul Francis Webster, Composer, Lyricist - Jay Livingston, Composer, Lyricist
Originally released 1961. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Doris Day, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Noël Coward, Composer, Lyricist
Originally released 1961. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Doris Day, Associated Performer, Main Artist - N. Brown, Composer, Lyricist - Gus Kahn, Composer, Lyricist
Originally released 1961. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Doris Day, Associated Performer, Main Artist - B. Dunham, Composer, Lyricist - M. Hooven, Composer, Lyricist - J. Hooven, Composer, Lyricist
Originally released 1961. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Doris Day, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Jim Harbert, Conductor - Johnny Rotella, Composer, Lyricist
Originally released 1961. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
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"The mood of these songs is dreamy," writes annotator Pete Martin, thus defining the theme of Doris Day's second LP of 1961. As usual, someone -- Day herself, her conductor, a Columbia Records A&R person -- had chosen a theme for her album and picked a group of songs, most of them interwar standards that derived from stage musicals or movies. Dreaminess was a concept familiar to any band singer of the 1940s, and Day was such a singer, so she certainly knew her way around "I'll Buy That Dream," even if the hit versions of the 1945 song were by such competitors as Helen Forrest (with Dick Haymes) and Kitty Kallen (as vocalist with Harry James' band). Her vocal style, warm, but never actually sensual, had always conformed to the unruffled approach of the '40s band singers, and she was right at home exploring sedate nighttime fantasy. Actually, though, the concept was a bit threadbare by now; Day had already recorded "Dream a Little Dream of Me" and "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)" on her 1958 album Day by Night, and obvious choices such as "Dream," "I Had the Craziest Dream," and "Darn That Dream" were eschewed in favor of a handful of unknown songs. Day did well by such unusual theater choices as "My Ship" from Lady in the Dark and "Someday I'll Find You" from Private Lives, and orchestra director Jim Harbert (who contributed his own "I Believe in Dreams") swathed everything in blankets of strings. But the album was not all it could have been, and the use of second-rate material and a second-rate conductor suggested that Columbia was losing faith in Day as a recording artist after years of poor sales. Ironically, it became her first new album to chart since 1957.
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:39:39
- Main artists: Doris Day
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Columbia - Legacy
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
Originally released 1961. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
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