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 (1968–1973).
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 — —
"My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time" (w/ Les Brown) 1 — —
"'Tain't Me" (w/ Les Brown) 10 — —
"Till the End of Time" (w/ Les Brown) 3 — —
"Aren't You Glad You're You?" (w/ Les Brown) 11 — —
"Come to Baby Do" (w/ Les Brown) / 13 — —
1946 "You Won't Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart)" (w/ Les Brown) 4 — —
"Day by Day" (w/ Les Brown) 15 — —
"I Got the Sun in the Mornin' (and the Moon at Night)" (w/ Les Brown) 10 — —
"The Whole World Is Singing My Song" (w/ Les Brown) 6 — —
1947 "The Christmas Song" (w/ Les Brown) 12 — —
"Sooner or Later" (w/ Les Brown) 13 — —
"Papa, Won't You Dance With Me" 21 — —
1948 "Thoughtless" (w/ Modernaires) 24 — —
"Love Somebody" (w/ Buddy Clark) / 1 — —
"Confess" (w/ Buddy Clark) 16 — —
"Put 'em in a Box, Tie 'em with a Ribbon, and Throw 'em in the Deep Blue Sea" / 27 — —
"It's Magic" 2 — —
"My Darling, My Darling" (w/ Buddy Clark) 7 — —
1949 "Powder Your Face with Sunshine" (w/ Buddy Clark) 16 — —
"Again" 2 — —
"Everywhere You Go" 22 — —
"Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk" (w/ Frank Sinatra) 17 — —
"Now That I Need You" 20 — —
"Canadian Capers" 15 — —
"Bluebird on Your Windowsill" 19 — —
1950 "Quicksilver" 20 — —
"I Said My Pajamas (and Put on My Prayers)" 21 — —
"Enjoy Yourself (It's Later than You Think)" 24 — —
"Hoop-Dee-Doo" 17 — —
"Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" 9 — —
"I Didn't Slip, I Wasn't Pushed, I Fell" 19 — —
"A Bushel and a Peck" 16 — —
1951 "It's a Lovely Day Today" 30 — —
"Would I Love You (Love You, Love You)" 10 — —
"Shanghai" 7 — —
"Domino" 21 — —
1952 "A Guy Is a Guy" 1 — —
"Sugarbush" (w/ Frankie Laine) 7 12 8
"When I Fall in Love" 20 — —
"No Two People" (w/ Donald O'Connor) 25 — —
"My Love and Devotion" — 31 10
"The Cherries" — 39 —
"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 —
"When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along)" 29 — —
"Candy Lips" (w/ Johnnie Ray) / 17 18 —
"Let's Walk That-a-Way" (w/ Johnnie Ray) — 31 4
"Kiss Me Again, Stranger" / 30 — —
"A Purple Cow" 25 — —
"Choo Choo Train (Ch-Ch-Foo) 20 — —
1954 "Secret Love" 1 1 1
"The Black Hills of Dakota" — — 7
"Lost in Loveliness" — 25 —
"I Speak to the Stars" 16 17 —
"Someone Else's Roses" — 32 —
"If I Give My Heart to You" / 3 2 4
"Anyone Can Fall in Love" 27 41 —
"Ready, Willing, and Able" / — 31 7
"Hold Me in Your Arms" — 39 —
1955 "Foolishly Yours" — 25 —
"Love Me Or Leave Me" — — 20
"I'll Never Stop Loving You" 13 14 17
"Ooh Bang Jiggily Jang" 83 — —
1956 "Let It Ring" 51 — —
"Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)" 2 3 1
"Julie" / 64 40 —
"Love in a Home" 79 — —
"The Party's Over" 63 47 —
1957 "Twelve O'Clock Tonight" 68 — —
1958 "Teacher's Pet" 56 36 —
"A Very Precious Love" — — 16
"Everybody Loves a Lover" 6 6 25
"Tunnel of Love" 43 53 —
1959 "Love Me in the Daytime" 100 51 —
1960 "Any Way the Wind Blows" 50 109 —
"Please Don't Eat the Daisies" 102 102 —
"A Perfect Understanding" 111 — —
1962 "Lover Come Back" 98 — —
1964 "Move Over Darling" — — 8
"Send Me No Flowers" 135 — —
1967 "Sorry" * — — —
* "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 André 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"
It's Been A Long Long Time
Doris Day Lyrics
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Then kiss me once again.
It's been a long, long time.
Haven't felt like this, my dear
Since I can't remember when.
It's been a long, long time
You'll never know how many dreams
Or just how empty they all seemed without you.
So kiss me once, then kiss me twice
Then kiss me once again.
It's been a long, long time.
Ah, kiss me once, then kiss me twice
Then kiss me once again.
It's been a long time.
Haven't felt like this my dear
Since I can't remember when
It's been a long, long time.
The lyrics of Doris Day's "It's Been A Long Long Time" express the overwhelming joy and excitement of the singer at being reunited with her lover after a long separation. The repetition of the line "kiss me once, then kiss me twice, then kiss me once again" throughout the song emphasizes the urgency and intensity of her longing to be with him again. The phrase "haven't felt like this, my dear, since I can't remember when" highlights the fact that the feelings she is experiencing are so strong that she cannot recall ever feeling this way before.
The second stanza of the song explores the theme of loss, with the singer confessing that she has dreamed about her lover countless times, and that without him, her life feels empty. This heightens the emotional intensity of the song, as it becomes clear that the reunion between the two lovers is not just a happy occurrence, but a desperately needed one.
Overall, "It's Been A Long Long Time" is a deeply romantic song that captures the euphoria and intensity of being reunited with a loved one after a long period of separation. The repetition of the central phrase and the focus on loss and longing make it a particularly powerful expression of these emotions.
Line by Line Meaning
Kiss me once, then kiss me twice
I want you to kiss me, not just once, but twice.
Then kiss me once again.
I want you to keep on kissing me, because it feels so good.
It's been a long, long time.
It's been a very long time since I felt this way.
Haven't felt like this, my dear
I haven't felt this way in a long time, my love.
Since I can't remember when.
I don't remember the last time I felt this way.
You'll never know how many dreams
You will never know how much I dream about you.
I've dreamed about you.
I have so many dreams about you, my love.
Or just how empty they all seemed without you.
My dreams feel so empty without you in them.
So kiss me once, then kiss me twice
Please keep kissing me, because it feels so good.
Then kiss me once again.
I want you to keep on kissing me.
It's been a long, long time.
It's been such a long time since I felt this way.
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
Gwendolyn Snow
Never thought that you would be
standing here so close to me
there's so much I feel that I should say
but words can wait until some other day
Kiss me once, then kiss me twice
Then kiss me once again
It's been a long, long time
Haven't felt like this, my dear
Since I can't remember when
It's been a long, long time
You'll never know how many dreams
I've dreamed about you
Or just how empty they all seemed without you
So kiss me once, then kiss me twice
Then kiss me once again
It's been a long, long time
Ah, kiss me once, then kiss me twice
Then kiss me once again
It's been a long time
Haven't felt like this my dear
Since I can't remember when
It's been a long, long time
You'll never know how many dreams
I dreamed about you
Or just how empty they all seemed without you
So kiss me once then kiss me twice
Then kiss me once again
It's been a long, long time
Luis Rodríguez Imaz
Never thought that you would be
standing here so close to me
there's so much I feel that I should say
but words can wait until some other day.
Kiss me once and kiss me twice
Then kiss me once again
It's been a long, long time
Haven't felt like this, my dear
Since I can't remember when
It's been a long, long time
You'll never know how many dreams
I've dreamed about you
Or just how empty they all seemed without you
So kiss me once, then kiss me twice
Then kiss me once again
It's been a long, long time
Oh, kiss me once and kiss me twice
Then kiss me once again
It's been a long such, a long time
I haven't felt like this my dear
Since I don't remember when
It's been a long been a mighty long time
You'll never know how many dreams
I've dreamed about you
Or how empty they all seem without you
So kiss me once and kiss me twice
And kiss me once again
It's been a long long time
It's been a mighty, mighty long time.
Traducción al español:
Nunca pensé que estarías
parado aquí tan cerca de mí,
hay tanto que siento que debería decir
pero las palabras pueden esperar hasta otro dia
Bésame una vez y bésame dos veces
Entonces bésame una vez más
Ha pasado mucho, mucho tiempo
No me he sentido así, querida
Desde que no puedo recordar cuando
Ha pasado mucho, mucho tiempo
Nunca sabrás cuantos sueños
He soñado contigo
O lo vacíos que parecían todos sin ti
Así que bésame una vez, luego bésame dos veces
Entonces bésame una vez más
Ha pasado mucho, mucho tiempo
Oh, bésame una vez y bésame dos veces
Entonces bésame una vez más
Ha sido tanto, mucho tiempo
No me he sentido así querida
Desde que no recuerdo cuando
Ha sido mucho, mucho tiempo
Nunca sabrás cuantos sueños
He soñado contigo
O lo vacíos que parecen todos sin ti
Así que bésame una vez y bésame dos veces
Y bésame una vez más
Ha pasado mucho tiempo
Ha sido un tiempo enorme, tremendo
Sam Gomez
ENDGAME SPOILERS
I'm so happy that it ended like this. I know the movie isn't anywhere perfect, but Marvel has without a doubt made the best shared universe in cinematic history. Obviously there are a lot of plot holes with the entire time travel thing added in there, but it's still really enjoyable and an overall fun experience. Plus, if you're a big Marvel fan (like myself) then the ending is really emotional for multiple reasons. One big reason is just the fact that we are finishing a franchise that began 11 years ago and the satisfying nostalgia hits you hard when you remember watching the first Iron Man and Captain America back in 2008 and 2011. We've seen these characters grow and change through thick and thin, we've seen them mature and develop as their lives came to an end.
Now its all over.
Everything is finished.
Yes there will be more Marvel movies but the saga of Steve and Tony has been put to rest. And I don't think there could have been a better way to end their story.
(idk, just my thoughts, sorry for sounding like a pretentious douche)
Zonia Treviño
Love this song! Daddy suddenly started singing it a couple of days ago. He has dementia and has wonderful flashbacks of the past. He cried, I cried... when I found it on youtube and he was able to sing along. <3
Senpai-san
How is he rn? Much love to your family ❤️
Gabriel Lozano
Lovely!
Geronimo Mendivil
ZONIA. HES WATCHING OVER U. WHAT A TIME.
Michael White
I'm sorry for what you are facing. But continue to reach out with music... and perhaps a puppy!
Tête Dur
Now I'm crying two years later.
William L Robinson
Doris was a great voice during this period. She started with the Les Brown big band. She went on to do many successful movies.Doris was truly a multi talented woman.
Gulfcoastbeemer
My Dad, Jack, sang with Doris Day (Kappelhoff) in the Les Brown Band. Great memories.
Karl Hungus
+William L Robinson - I didn't realize that Ms. Day started with Les Brown and His Band of Renown. A great band and a great singer. That was the golden age of entertainment that, sadly, we shall never see again.
Panja
She is one of my all time favorite actresses, her movies are wonderful and her music career is wonderful as well. I grew up on movies like "Move Over, Darling" and "The Thrill of It All" and "Send Me No Flowers"...I still love them to this day.