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"
There's a Bluebird on Your Windowsill
Doris Day Lyrics
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There's a bluebird
(There's a rainbow)
There's a bluebird on your windowsill
There's a rainbow in your sky
Near enough to make you cry
(There's a bluebird)
There he is.
(There's a rainbow)
And with every tear you've washed away
All the things you've kept inside
You count your joys this lovely day
And you wonder why you cried
There's a bluebird on your windowsill
There's a rainbow in your sky
There are happy thoughts, your heart to fill
Near enough to make you cry
(There's a bluebird)
Look at him out there, ain't he pretty
(There's a rainbow)
And if perchance your heart grow sad
You still can smile again
And with every tear you've ever had
Comes the sunshine after rain
[Orchestral Break]
There's a bluebird
(Yes, yes)
There's a rainbow
(Hear, hear.)
[Orchestral Break]
The rainy days may come and go
But the clouds soon roll away
Everything will come that you wish it so
As an answer when you pray.
There's a bluebird on your windowsill
There's a rainbow in your sky
There're happy thoughts, your heart to fill
Near enough to make you cry
(There's a bluebird)
Cutest feathers.
(There's a rainbow)
Lovely weather.
(There's a bluebird)
Look at that bluebird and the rainbow in the sky.
The lyrics in "Bluebird on Your Windowsill" are a simple but powerful reminder to look for the small things in life that bring us joy and happiness. The bluebird, a symbol of happiness and hope, is perched on the windowsill, while a rainbow appears in the sky. The song urges the listener to focus on these beautiful sights as well as the happy thoughts in their hearts, that are near enough to make them cry with gratitude. The tears represent the emotions that we keep bottled up inside, but when we let them out, they make room for the sunshine to pour in.
Line by Line Meaning
There's a bluebird
The singer is calling attention to a bluebird that is present.
There's a bluebird on your windowsill
The bluebird the singer is referring to is on the windowsill of the listener.
There's a rainbow in your sky
The listener is experiencing the beauty of a rainbow in the sky.
There are happy thoughts, your heart to fill
The presence of the bluebird and the rainbow is evoking positive emotions in the listener.
Near enough to make you cry
The positive emotions evoked by the bluebird and the rainbow are so strong that the listener may be moved to tears.
And with every tear you've washed away
The singer acknowledges that the listener may be crying, but suggests that it may be a cathartic release.
All the things you've kept inside
The crying may be caused by emotions that the listener has been suppressing.
You count your joys this lovely day
The beauty of the bluebird and the rainbow is causing the listener to reflect on positive things in their life.
And you wonder why you cried
The listener may be surprised by their emotional reaction to the beauty they are experiencing.
Look at him out there, ain't he pretty
The artist is admiring the appearance of the bluebird.
And if perchance your heart grow sad
The singer suggests that the beauty of the bluebird and the rainbow can also provide comfort during difficult times.
You still can smile again
The artist is encouraging the listener to remain optimistic and resilient.
Comes the sunshine after rain
The difficult times will eventually pass and be replaced by more positive experiences.
The rainy days may come and go
The singer acknowledges that difficult times are a natural part of life.
But the clouds soon roll away
The difficult times will not last forever.
Everything will come that you wish it so
The artist is expressing optimism that the listener's desires will come to fruition.
As an answer when you pray.
The artist suggests that prayer can be a source of comfort and hope.
Cutest feathers.
The singer is again admiring the appearance of the bluebird's feathers.
Lovely weather.
The singer is again commenting on the beauty of the weather and the natural world.
Look at that bluebird and the rainbow in the sky.
The artist is again calling attention to the natural beauty that is present.
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: ELIZABETH CLARKE, ROBERT MELLIN, NEW VERSION, ORIGINAL VERSION:
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@KaetheV
When one describes Doris Day in one word it can only be : Happy. Her face is happy, her voice is happy, most of her songs are happy. And we listen to her and get: happy too. Thank you!
@nikiichan
She's one of the few singers I just cannot stop listening to and the only one I keep wishing I sounded like. Love Doris Day ! Thanks for uploading so much of her music :)
@natentreyable
Your so good to us! Thank you! I just dont know what I would do without Doris's lovely voice in my life. Nate
@weeyin1155
Never heard this one before.What a lovely way to get your day off to a positive start!! Thanks toni.Twinkling stars and hugs..Jan and Susan.x
@Dayniac4324
I'm with you there... I can listen to Doris all day long ! I'm so happy you're enjoying her music ... and this happy song !!
@SuperChris1225
Great song! I have this recording on a "78" R.p.M. I'm sure I heard it on the radio back in October or November, 1949. It's a happy tune that I always loved. Thank you for posting.
@elczanka
The actress and beautiful voice and great charm. Suuuper. Thank you. Alicja
@Dayniac4324
There's a great quote from Doris - " I want to smile and I want to make people laugh. And that's all I want. I like it. I like being happy. I want to make others happy." -- I think she did just that !!
@teejaymz742
Doris brightens any morning.
@fralinsandfriends
I've always loved her voice.