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"
You Made Me Love You
Doris Day Lyrics
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I didn't want to do it
I didn't want to do it
You made me want you
And all the time you knew it
I guess you always knew it
You made me happy sometimes
But there were times, dear
You made me feel so bad
You made me sigh for
I didn't want to tell you
I didn't want to tell you
I want some love, it's true
Yes I do, deed I do
You know I do
Give me, give me, what I cry for
You've got the brand of kisses that I'd die for
You know you made me love you
You know you made me love you
The lyrics of "You Made Me Love You" by Doris Day are filled with contradicting emotions. The song is about the singer admitting to being in love with someone, even though they didn't want to be. In the first verse, the singer confesses that they didn't want to fall in love with the person, but that they made them want them all the time. The phrase "You made me want you, and all the time you knew it" implies that the person they are talking about may have intentionally led them on, despite knowing that they didn't want to fall in love. The singer acknowledges that the person made them happy and glad at times, but there were also times when they made them feel bad, indicating that the relationship was emotionally tumultuous.
In the second verse, the singer reveals that the person made them sigh, implying that they longed for their affection. They didn't want to tell the person, most likely because they were afraid of being rejected or because they were in denial about their feelings. However, they eventually confess that they want love and that they want it from the person they're singing about. The final lines of the song, "You've got the brand of kisses that I'd die for, you know you made me love you," are a testament to the singer's boundless love for the person they're addressing.
Overall, "You Made Me Love You" is a song that encapsulates the complex and often contradictory emotions that come with falling in love. The lyrics speak to the many dimensions of love, including the joy and the pain that come with it.
Line by Line Meaning
You made me love you
The singer is expressing that their love for the addressed person is a result of factors outside of their control.
I didn't want to do it
The singer did not intentionally fall in love with the addressed person.
I didn't want to do it
The singer did not intentionally fall in love with the addressed person.
You made me want you
The addressed person's actions caused the artist to experience a desire to be closer to them.
And all the time you knew it
The addressed person was aware of the artist's growing affection for them.
I guess you always knew it
The singer believes that the addressed person was aware of their love from the beginning.
You made me happy sometimes
The addressed person's actions sometimes brought joy to the singer.
And you made me glad
The addressed person's actions sometimes improved the artist's mood.
But there were times, dear
Despite the positive moments, there were also negative experiences between the artist and addressed person.
You made me feel so bad
The addressed person caused the artist to experience negative emotions.
You made me sigh for
The addressed person's actions caused the singer to deeply desire something they may not have been able to obtain.
I didn't want to tell you
The artist did not want to reveal their true feelings to the addressed person.
I didn't want to tell you
The singer did not want to reveal their true feelings to the addressed person.
I want some love, it's true
The singer desires to receive love from the addressed person.
Yes I do, deed I do
The singer's desire for love is sincere and true.
You know I do
The artist believes that the addressed person is aware of their love.
Give me, give me, what I cry for
The artist is pleading with the addressed person to give them what they have been asking for.
You've got the brand of kisses that I'd die for
The addressed person's romantic gestures and affections are deeply desired by the singer.
You know you made me love you
The addressed person's actions and characteristics are responsible for the singer's love for them.
You know you made me love you
The addressed person is aware of the impact they had on the artist's emotions and feelings.
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: JAMES MONACO, JOSEPH MCCARTHY
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
Dearly Beloved
You made me love you
I didn't wanna do it
I didn't wanna do it
You made me want you
And all the time you knew it
I guess you always knew it
You made me happy sometimes
And you made me glad
But there were times, dear,
You made me feel so bad
You made me sigh for
I didn't wanna tell you
I didn't wanna tell you
I want some love it's true
Yes, I do, 'deed I do
You know I do
Gimmie, gimmie, what I cry for
You've got the brand of kisses
That I'd die for
You know you made me love you
You know you made me love you ♥
Cheryl M
Doris Day has so much TRUTH in her sound. She literally "hits you over the head" with perfection! It is impossible for me to express how very much I absolutely adore all her many talents. Then there is her look! Gosh! Maybe just thee most perfect woman the good Lord could have ever come up with! I pray all is well with her and that she never forgets how very much she is still loved and appreciated today! Hats off to you, Dayniac4324 for your love of Doris and for these wonderful posts!
Jean Brooks
Love this. Great voice.
Isabel Cordero
What a beautiful song!! Doris Day is fabulous!!! Thank you, thank you for sharing this moment of
romance and tenderness ❤❤❤
Daniel Shumway
My mother, as a teenager, used to sit through the Saturday matinees again and again when all the boys were all going off to war in the 40's, tears streaming down her cheeks.
Dayniac4324
I love this song from Doris ..... and you can't go wrong with Gable ... one of my all time favorites. So happy you enjoyed !!
Dayniac4324
SandraX ---- you are SOOOO right ! Most of todays "stars" couldn't hold a candle to Gable. He's one of my fav's too ! Thanks !
Dayniac4324
She does and is -- should have received at least and academy award nomination for it ! Thanks - glad you enjoyed !
Pamela Harkness
Such a feel good video. Great job stirring up a classic love song!
Westcoastjazzer
This song still works for me! Love it, thanks!
Dayniac4324
He really is. Doris said in her bio that he was such an adorable big bear of a man -and so kind and gentle. Very concerned about doing a scene just the way the director wanted it and offering to do it over if he wanted something else. Doris thought he was very special. Me too ! Thanks - glad you enjoyed !!