Doris Day (Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S., April 3, 1922… Read Full Bio ↴Doris Day (Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S., April 3, 1922 β May 13, 2019) was an American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist. After she began her career as a big band singer in 1939, her popularity increased with her first hit recording "Sentimental Journey" (1945). After leaving Les Brown & His Band of Renown to embark on a solo career, she recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967, which made her one of the most popular and acclaimed singers of the 20th century.
Day's film career began during the latter part of the Classical Hollywood Film era with the 1948 film Romance on the High Seas, and its success sparked her twenty-year career as a motion picture actress. She starred in a series of successful films, including musicals, comedies, and dramas. She played the title role in Calamity Jane (1953), and starred in Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) with James Stewart. Her most successful films were the bedroom comedies she made co-starring Rock Hudson and James Garner, such as Pillow Talk (1959) and Move Over, Darling (1963), respectively. She also co-starred in films with such leading men as Clark Gable, Cary Grant, David Niven, and Rod Taylor. After her final film in 1968, she went on to star in the CBS sitcom The Doris Day Show (1968β1973).
Day was usually one of the top ten singers between 1951 and 1966. As an actress, she became the biggest female film star in the early 1960s, and ranked sixth among the box office performers by 2012. In 2011, she released her 29th studio album, My Heart, which became a UK Top 10 album featuring new material. Among her awards, Day has received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and a Legend Award from the Society of Singers. In 1960, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and in 1989 was given the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures. In 2004, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush followed in 2011 by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career Achievement Award. She was one of the last surviving stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Her death was announced by her charity, the Doris Day Animal Foundation, on Monday 13th May 2019.
Discography
chart hits
Year Title Chart Positions
US CB UK
1945 "Sentimental Journey" (w/ Les Brown) 1 β β
"My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time" (w/ Les Brown) 1 β β
"'Tain't Me" (w/ Les Brown) 10 β β
"Till the End of Time" (w/ Les Brown) 3 β β
"Aren't You Glad You're You?" (w/ Les Brown) 11 β β
"Come to Baby Do" (w/ Les Brown) / 13 β β
1946 "You Won't Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart)" (w/ Les Brown) 4 β β
"Day by Day" (w/ Les Brown) 15 β β
"I Got the Sun in the Mornin' (and the Moon at Night)" (w/ Les Brown) 10 β β
"The Whole World Is Singing My Song" (w/ Les Brown) 6 β β
1947 "The Christmas Song" (w/ Les Brown) 12 β β
"Sooner or Later" (w/ Les Brown) 13 β β
"Papa, Won't You Dance With Me" 21 β β
1948 "Thoughtless" (w/ Modernaires) 24 β β
"Love Somebody" (w/ Buddy Clark) / 1 β β
"Confess" (w/ Buddy Clark) 16 β β
"Put 'em in a Box, Tie 'em with a Ribbon, and Throw 'em in the Deep Blue Sea" / 27 β β
"It's Magic" 2 β β
"My Darling, My Darling" (w/ Buddy Clark) 7 β β
1949 "Powder Your Face with Sunshine" (w/ Buddy Clark) 16 β β
"Again" 2 β β
"Everywhere You Go" 22 β β
"Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk" (w/ Frank Sinatra) 17 β β
"Now That I Need You" 20 β β
"Canadian Capers" 15 β β
"Bluebird on Your Windowsill" 19 β β
1950 "Quicksilver" 20 β β
"I Said My Pajamas (and Put on My Prayers)" 21 β β
"Enjoy Yourself (It's Later than You Think)" 24 β β
"Hoop-Dee-Doo" 17 β β
"Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" 9 β β
"I Didn't Slip, I Wasn't Pushed, I Fell" 19 β β
"A Bushel and a Peck" 16 β β
1951 "It's a Lovely Day Today" 30 β β
"Would I Love You (Love You, Love You)" 10 β β
"Shanghai" 7 β β
"Domino" 21 β β
1952 "A Guy Is a Guy" 1 β β
"Sugarbush" (w/ Frankie Laine) 7 12 8
"When I Fall in Love" 20 β β
"No Two People" (w/ Donald O'Connor) 25 β β
"My Love and Devotion" β 31 10
"The Cherries" β 39 β
"A Full Time Job" (w/ Johnnie Ray) / 20 21 11
"Ma Says, Pa Says" (w/ Johnnie Ray) 23 28 12
1953 "Mister Tap Toe" 10 11 β
"When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along)" 29 β β
"Candy Lips" (w/ Johnnie Ray) / 17 18 β
"Let's Walk That-a-Way" (w/ Johnnie Ray) β 31 4
"Kiss Me Again, Stranger" / 30 β β
"A Purple Cow" 25 β β
"Choo Choo Train (Ch-Ch-Foo) 20 β β
1954 "Secret Love" 1 1 1
"The Black Hills of Dakota" β β 7
"Lost in Loveliness" β 25 β
"I Speak to the Stars" 16 17 β
"Someone Else's Roses" β 32 β
"If I Give My Heart to You" / 3 2 4
"Anyone Can Fall in Love" 27 41 β
"Ready, Willing, and Able" / β 31 7
"Hold Me in Your Arms" β 39 β
1955 "Foolishly Yours" β 25 β
"Love Me Or Leave Me" β β 20
"I'll Never Stop Loving You" 13 14 17
"Ooh Bang Jiggily Jang" 83 β β
1956 "Let It Ring" 51 β β
"Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)" 2 3 1
"Julie" / 64 40 β
"Love in a Home" 79 β β
"The Party's Over" 63 47 β
1957 "Twelve O'Clock Tonight" 68 β β
1958 "Teacher's Pet" 56 36 β
"A Very Precious Love" β β 16
"Everybody Loves a Lover" 6 6 25
"Tunnel of Love" 43 53 β
1959 "Love Me in the Daytime" 100 51 β
1960 "Any Way the Wind Blows" 50 109 β
"Please Don't Eat the Daisies" 102 102 β
"A Perfect Understanding" 111 β β
1962 "Lover Come Back" 98 β β
1964 "Move Over Darling" β β 8
"Send Me No Flowers" 135 β β
1967 "Sorry" * β β β
* "Sorry" made the US AC charts at #19.
Albums
10" LP
You're My Thrill (1949)
Young Man with a Horn (1950, soundtrack with Harry James)
Tea for Two (1950, soundtrack)
Lullaby of Broadway (1951, soundtrack)
On Moonlight Bay (1951, soundtrack)
I'll See You in My Dreams (1951, soundtrack)
By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953, soundtrack)
Calamity Jane (1953, soundtrack)
Young at Heart (1954, soundtrack with Frank Sinatra)
12" LPs
Love Me or Leave Me (1955, soundtrack)
Day Dreams (1955, expanded re-issue of You're My Thrill)
Day By Day (1956)
The Pajama Game (1957, soundtrack)
Day by Night (1957)
Hooray for Hollywood (2 volumes, 1958)
Cuttin' Capers (1959)
What Every Girl Should Know (1960)
Show Time (1960)
Listen to Day (1960)
Bright and Shiny (1961)
I Have Dreamed (1961)
Duet (with AndrΓ© Previn, 1962)
You'll Never Walk Alone (1962)
Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962, soundtrack with film cast)
Annie Get Your Gun (1963, with Robert Goulet)
Love Him (1963)
The Doris Day Christmas Album (1964)
With a Smile and a Song (1964)
Latin for Lovers (1965)
Doris Day's Sentimental Journey (1965)
The Love Album (recorded in 1967, released in 1994)
My Heart (2011)
Singles
Hit records:
(with Les Brown's Band of Renown)
"Sentimental Journey"
5,000,000+ sales
"My Dreams Are Getting Better All The Time"
1,000,000+ sales
(As a solo performer)
"It's Magic"
1,000,000+ sales
"Again"
"Love Somebody" (duet with Buddy Clark)
1,000,000+ sales
"Confess" (duet with Buddy Clark) (also done by Patti Page)
"Bewitched"
1,000,000+ sales
"Shanghai"
"Sugarbush" (duet with Frankie Laine)
1,000,000+ sales
"Mister Tap Toe"
"Secret Love"
1,000,000+ sales
"If I Give My Heart to You" (also done by Denise Lor)
"I'll Never Stop Loving You"
1,000,000+ sales
"Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)" ("Que Sera, Sera")
1,000,000+ sales
"Everybody Loves a Lover"
"Move Over Darling"
Day's film career began during the latter part of the Classical Hollywood Film era with the 1948 film Romance on the High Seas, and its success sparked her twenty-year career as a motion picture actress. She starred in a series of successful films, including musicals, comedies, and dramas. She played the title role in Calamity Jane (1953), and starred in Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) with James Stewart. Her most successful films were the bedroom comedies she made co-starring Rock Hudson and James Garner, such as Pillow Talk (1959) and Move Over, Darling (1963), respectively. She also co-starred in films with such leading men as Clark Gable, Cary Grant, David Niven, and Rod Taylor. After her final film in 1968, she went on to star in the CBS sitcom The Doris Day Show (1968β1973).
Day was usually one of the top ten singers between 1951 and 1966. As an actress, she became the biggest female film star in the early 1960s, and ranked sixth among the box office performers by 2012. In 2011, she released her 29th studio album, My Heart, which became a UK Top 10 album featuring new material. Among her awards, Day has received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and a Legend Award from the Society of Singers. In 1960, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and in 1989 was given the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures. In 2004, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush followed in 2011 by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career Achievement Award. She was one of the last surviving stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Her death was announced by her charity, the Doris Day Animal Foundation, on Monday 13th May 2019.
Discography
chart hits
Year Title Chart Positions
US CB UK
1945 "Sentimental Journey" (w/ Les Brown) 1 β β
"My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time" (w/ Les Brown) 1 β β
"'Tain't Me" (w/ Les Brown) 10 β β
"Till the End of Time" (w/ Les Brown) 3 β β
"Aren't You Glad You're You?" (w/ Les Brown) 11 β β
"Come to Baby Do" (w/ Les Brown) / 13 β β
1946 "You Won't Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart)" (w/ Les Brown) 4 β β
"Day by Day" (w/ Les Brown) 15 β β
"I Got the Sun in the Mornin' (and the Moon at Night)" (w/ Les Brown) 10 β β
"The Whole World Is Singing My Song" (w/ Les Brown) 6 β β
1947 "The Christmas Song" (w/ Les Brown) 12 β β
"Sooner or Later" (w/ Les Brown) 13 β β
"Papa, Won't You Dance With Me" 21 β β
1948 "Thoughtless" (w/ Modernaires) 24 β β
"Love Somebody" (w/ Buddy Clark) / 1 β β
"Confess" (w/ Buddy Clark) 16 β β
"Put 'em in a Box, Tie 'em with a Ribbon, and Throw 'em in the Deep Blue Sea" / 27 β β
"It's Magic" 2 β β
"My Darling, My Darling" (w/ Buddy Clark) 7 β β
1949 "Powder Your Face with Sunshine" (w/ Buddy Clark) 16 β β
"Again" 2 β β
"Everywhere You Go" 22 β β
"Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk" (w/ Frank Sinatra) 17 β β
"Now That I Need You" 20 β β
"Canadian Capers" 15 β β
"Bluebird on Your Windowsill" 19 β β
1950 "Quicksilver" 20 β β
"I Said My Pajamas (and Put on My Prayers)" 21 β β
"Enjoy Yourself (It's Later than You Think)" 24 β β
"Hoop-Dee-Doo" 17 β β
"Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" 9 β β
"I Didn't Slip, I Wasn't Pushed, I Fell" 19 β β
"A Bushel and a Peck" 16 β β
1951 "It's a Lovely Day Today" 30 β β
"Would I Love You (Love You, Love You)" 10 β β
"Shanghai" 7 β β
"Domino" 21 β β
1952 "A Guy Is a Guy" 1 β β
"Sugarbush" (w/ Frankie Laine) 7 12 8
"When I Fall in Love" 20 β β
"No Two People" (w/ Donald O'Connor) 25 β β
"My Love and Devotion" β 31 10
"The Cherries" β 39 β
"A Full Time Job" (w/ Johnnie Ray) / 20 21 11
"Ma Says, Pa Says" (w/ Johnnie Ray) 23 28 12
1953 "Mister Tap Toe" 10 11 β
"When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along)" 29 β β
"Candy Lips" (w/ Johnnie Ray) / 17 18 β
"Let's Walk That-a-Way" (w/ Johnnie Ray) β 31 4
"Kiss Me Again, Stranger" / 30 β β
"A Purple Cow" 25 β β
"Choo Choo Train (Ch-Ch-Foo) 20 β β
1954 "Secret Love" 1 1 1
"The Black Hills of Dakota" β β 7
"Lost in Loveliness" β 25 β
"I Speak to the Stars" 16 17 β
"Someone Else's Roses" β 32 β
"If I Give My Heart to You" / 3 2 4
"Anyone Can Fall in Love" 27 41 β
"Ready, Willing, and Able" / β 31 7
"Hold Me in Your Arms" β 39 β
1955 "Foolishly Yours" β 25 β
"Love Me Or Leave Me" β β 20
"I'll Never Stop Loving You" 13 14 17
"Ooh Bang Jiggily Jang" 83 β β
1956 "Let It Ring" 51 β β
"Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)" 2 3 1
"Julie" / 64 40 β
"Love in a Home" 79 β β
"The Party's Over" 63 47 β
1957 "Twelve O'Clock Tonight" 68 β β
1958 "Teacher's Pet" 56 36 β
"A Very Precious Love" β β 16
"Everybody Loves a Lover" 6 6 25
"Tunnel of Love" 43 53 β
1959 "Love Me in the Daytime" 100 51 β
1960 "Any Way the Wind Blows" 50 109 β
"Please Don't Eat the Daisies" 102 102 β
"A Perfect Understanding" 111 β β
1962 "Lover Come Back" 98 β β
1964 "Move Over Darling" β β 8
"Send Me No Flowers" 135 β β
1967 "Sorry" * β β β
* "Sorry" made the US AC charts at #19.
Albums
10" LP
You're My Thrill (1949)
Young Man with a Horn (1950, soundtrack with Harry James)
Tea for Two (1950, soundtrack)
Lullaby of Broadway (1951, soundtrack)
On Moonlight Bay (1951, soundtrack)
I'll See You in My Dreams (1951, soundtrack)
By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953, soundtrack)
Calamity Jane (1953, soundtrack)
Young at Heart (1954, soundtrack with Frank Sinatra)
12" LPs
Love Me or Leave Me (1955, soundtrack)
Day Dreams (1955, expanded re-issue of You're My Thrill)
Day By Day (1956)
The Pajama Game (1957, soundtrack)
Day by Night (1957)
Hooray for Hollywood (2 volumes, 1958)
Cuttin' Capers (1959)
What Every Girl Should Know (1960)
Show Time (1960)
Listen to Day (1960)
Bright and Shiny (1961)
I Have Dreamed (1961)
Duet (with AndrΓ© Previn, 1962)
You'll Never Walk Alone (1962)
Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962, soundtrack with film cast)
Annie Get Your Gun (1963, with Robert Goulet)
Love Him (1963)
The Doris Day Christmas Album (1964)
With a Smile and a Song (1964)
Latin for Lovers (1965)
Doris Day's Sentimental Journey (1965)
The Love Album (recorded in 1967, released in 1994)
My Heart (2011)
Singles
Hit records:
(with Les Brown's Band of Renown)
"Sentimental Journey"
5,000,000+ sales
"My Dreams Are Getting Better All The Time"
1,000,000+ sales
(As a solo performer)
"It's Magic"
1,000,000+ sales
"Again"
"Love Somebody" (duet with Buddy Clark)
1,000,000+ sales
"Confess" (duet with Buddy Clark) (also done by Patti Page)
"Bewitched"
1,000,000+ sales
"Shanghai"
"Sugarbush" (duet with Frankie Laine)
1,000,000+ sales
"Mister Tap Toe"
"Secret Love"
1,000,000+ sales
"If I Give My Heart to You" (also done by Denise Lor)
"I'll Never Stop Loving You"
1,000,000+ sales
"Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)" ("Que Sera, Sera")
1,000,000+ sales
"Everybody Loves a Lover"
"Move Over Darling"
'tain't Me
Doris Day Lyrics
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`Tain't me baby gee I'm blue
`Tain't me that you sigh those tender sighs to
`Tain't me but I wish that it could be
`Tain't me that you tell those sweetest lies to
`Tain't me baby that's so plain to see
I'll remain just the same
Won't complain, kinda feel that I'm to blame
`Tain't me that your hungry heart cries out to
`Tain't me, maybe someday, could be me
`Tain't me that you sigh those tender sighs to
`Tain't me but I wish that it could be
`Tain't me that you tell those sweetest lies to
`Tain't me baby that's so plain to see
I'll remain just the same
Won't complain, kinda feel that I'm to blame
`Tain't me that your hungry heart cries out to
In this Doris Day's song 'tain't Me, the singer is communicating the feelings of jealousy and unrequited love. The lyrics suggest that the one she is in love with is not interested in her and is instead in a relationship with someone else. She acknowledges that it's not her who is experiencing the romantic gestures from the person she loves, but she wishes it could be her. She feels that she is to blame and wishes that she could be the one who is the recipient of the sweetest lies and tender sighs. However, for now, she is resigned to the fact that it is not her, and she will remain the same and won't complain. She believes that someday, the person she loves might see her in a different light and might choose to be with her instead.
Overall, the song is about the experience of unrequited love, where the person you love is in love with someone else, and there is nothing you can do about it. Day's voice gives the song a melancholic and forlorn feeling, which matches the theme very well.
Line by Line Meaning
`Tain't me baby gee I'm blue
It's not me causing your sadness, even though I'm feeling it too
`Tain't me that you sigh those tender sighs to
I'm not the one provoking those loving sounds from you
`Tain't me but I wish that it could be
I'm not the object of your affections, but I desire to be
`Tain't me that you tell those sweetest lies to
I'm not the recipient of your most romantic fibs
`Tain't me baby that's so plain to see
It's abundantly apparent that I'm not the one you're enamoured with
I'll remain just the same
Despite my unrequited love, I will continue to be myself
Won't complain, kinda feel that I'm to blame
I won't voice my frustration, in fact, I feel responsible for not being what you want
`Tain't me that your hungry heart cries out to
My name isn't the one your heart is yearning for
`Tain't me, maybe someday, could be me
Right now, it's not me you love, but perhaps someday in the future, it will be
Lyrics Β© Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: JACK PALMER, LEMUEL DAVIS
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@clivesmith9377
"βTainβt Me" - Doris Day, 1945.
'Tain't me baby gee I'm blue
'Tain't me that you sigh those tender sighs to
'Tain't me but I wish that it could be
'Tain't me that you tell those sweetest lies to
'Tain't me baby that's so plain to see
I'll remain just the same Won't complain,
Kinda feel that I'm to blame
'Tain't me that your hungry heart cries out to
'Tain't me, maybe someday, could be me
@SpecialAgentJamesAki
This is a certified hood classic
@onearmy942
πππ everybody's singing this tune when caught.
@tomasperez1121
Why do you say?
@SpecialAgentJamesAki
@@tomasperez1121 it is a joke to say when you hear a good song
@tomasperez1121
@@SpecialAgentJamesAki oh I thought I missed something.
@SpecialAgentJamesAki
@@tomasperez1121 π
@swingman5635
Les and crew really beat it out on this number, and Doris' reading is groovy! A favorite of my early 78 collection. Many thanks for posting!
@jjakiefte2165
Ah... that tenor saxophone solo, wonderful. Well, that goes for the whole performance, actually.
@Trombonology
I much prefer Doris' sides from her second stint with Les' orch. to those from her first. ... Then again, I suppose most people do -- do they not? This socko affair is one of my absolute favourite Brown-Day platters! The Eddie Heywood sextet record is the other great (and very different!) version of this cute number.
@swingman5635
I can't speak for most people, but I do indeed, agree that her mid-40's sides are superior to her previous stint with Les. I'll go so far as to say,legendary!