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 – 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 (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"

Love Me in the Daytime
Doris Day Lyrics

Jump to: Overall Meaning ↴ Line by Line Meaning ↴

Love me in the daytime
Love me in the nighttime
Anytime you love me
Baby, that'll be the right time

Put your arms around me
When the lights are low
Hug with the bearhug

Never let me go

Because I'm never, ever gonna
Get enough of you, you, you
No, I'm never, ever gonna
Get enough of you

We're as many as a million
Red hot kisses overdue
And I'm never, ever gonna
Get enough of you

I know I've had
My fill of dancing
When my tired twinkletoes
Begin to ache

I know I've satisfied
My sweet tooth
When I tell the waiter
He can take the cake

I know I'm loaded up
With champagne
When my brain begins
To do a spineroo

But as long as I keep living
I'll take anything you're giving
Cause I'm never, ever gonna
Get enough of you

Love me in the daytime
Love me in the nighttime
Anytime you love me
That'll be the right time

Put your arms around me
When the lights are low
Hug with the bearhug
Never let me go

Because I'm never, ever gonna
Get enough of you, you, you
No, I'm never, ever gonna
Get enough of you

We're as many as a million
Red hot kisses overdue
And I'm never, ever gonna
Never, ever gonna
Never, ever gonna
Get enough of you

You

Overall Meaning

can interpret Doris Day's song Love Me in the Daytime in several ways. The song talks about a person's never-ending love and desire for their partner. The lyrics suggest that the singer is always willing to be loved by their partner - whether it is during the day or night, and any time in between. They want their partner to embrace them tightly and never let them go, no matter how hard things get.

The song goes on to describe the singer's experience with other pleasures in life, such as dancing, eating cake, and drinking champagne. These moments eventually come to an end, but their love for their partner is limitless and eternal. "Cause I'm never, ever gonna get enough of you," sings Day, emphasizing her undying love and commitment to her partner.

Overall, Love Me in the Daytime is a cheerful and catchy love song that highlights the durability of true love. It suggests that loving someone is an ongoing process that requires effort and dedication, and it is best enjoyed at any time of the day.

Line by Line Meaning

Love me in the daytime
Expresses the desire to be loved by the partner during the daytime

Love me in the nighttime
Expresses the desire to be loved by the partner during the nighttime

Anytime you love me
Expresses that the time doesn't matter when it comes to being loved by the partner

Baby, that'll be the right time
Expresses the willingness to accept the partner's love at any given time

Put your arms around me
Asks the partner to embrace the artist with their arms

When the lights are low
Suggests that the atmosphere is romantic, with dimmed lighting

Hug with the bearhug
Asks the partner to hug the singer tightly, like a bear hug

Never let me go
Asks the partner to never let go of the artist

Because I'm never, ever gonna
Conveys that the artist will always want

Get enough of you, you, you
The partner's love will always be desired

We're as many as a million
The love between the singer and the partner is immeasurable

Red hot kisses overdue
Expresses the desire for passionate and intimate moments with the partner

I know I've had
The singer recognizes that they have experienced

My fill of dancing
The singer has had enough of dancing

When my tired twinkletoes
The feet are tired from dancing

Begin to ache
The feet are in pain from dancing

I know I've satisfied
The artist recognizes that they have fulfilled

My sweet tooth
The singer has had enough sweets

When I tell the waiter
The server is informed

He can take the cake
The artist is finished with dessert

I know I'm loaded up
The artist recognizes that they have consumed

With champagne
The artist has had enough champagne

When my brain begins
Indicates being drunk from the champagne

To do a spineroo
The artist feels dizzy from the champagne

But as long as I keep living
Expresses the commitment to stay alive

I'll take anything you're giving
The singer is willing to accept anything the partner offers

Cause I'm never, ever gonna
Reiterates the eternal desire

Get enough of you
The partner's love will always be desired

We're as many as a million
The love between the artist and the partner is immeasurable

Red hot kisses overdue
Expresses the desire for passionate and intimate moments with the partner

And I'm never, ever gonna
Reiterates the eternal desire

Never, ever gonna
The partner's love will always be desired

Get enough of you
The partner's love will always be desired

You
Refers to the partner

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15y

Thank you Alicja -- I'm really happy you enjoyed this wonderful Doris song - its a fun one. Hope you have a lovely day too !

Barbara C Norton

15y

Thanks James !!

Dayniac4324

15y

Oh sorry !!! lol

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