Sony Music Australia release a new 3CD Doris Day set “Hits, Hollywood & Broadway”

In April 2010, Sony BMG Australia released a new budget Doris Day CD set of music which she originally recorded and released for the Columbia label.

The set which we are now in possession of is entitled “Hits, Hollywood & Broadway”. The 3-discs come in a standard slimline case (usually associated with a single CD album) and contains a basic booklet with track listing and a short biography about the star.

The pluses for this release are that it is a compilation which is exclusive to Australia and one of the first major Doris Day music release downunder for some years. We also think that the decision to press picture disc CDs was quite charming as each CD features a pretty fifties shot of Doris from the movie “Love Me or Leave Me”. The 68 track set offers any newbie fan a nice assortment of material which will give them a good introduction into what ‘Doris Day – The Singer’ is all about.

The downsides in our opinion are the booklet does not contain any photographs; the innovative style “slimline” case proved fragile and lasted 5 minutes before the teeth that hold the CDs in place broke apart; the set on import outside of Australia is rather overpriced for what it offers; the three themed CDs don’t contain anything which we haven’t already seen before: CD1 is almost a copycat of the best-selling British compilation “The Hit Singles Collection”; CD2 offers recordings from Doris’s 1958 double studio album “Hooray for Hollywood”; CD3 is an assortment of songs taken from some of her finest studio albums “Cuttin’ Capers”, “What Every Girl Should Know”, “Show Time” and “Bright & Shiny” (released between 1959 to 1961). We commend Sony Music Australia for commemorating Doris Day’s birthday but wish they had tried to be a wee bit more creative.

Hits, Hollywood & Broadway
Sony Music Australia; 88697682822
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CD 1 – Hits:

1. Move Over Darling
2. Everybody loves a lover
3. A Very Precious Love
4. Lover Come Back
5. The Deadwood Stage
6. If I Give My Heart To You
7. Anyway The Wind Blows
8. The Black Hills Of Dakota
9. Teacher’s Pet
10. Love Me Or Leave Me
11. Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
12. Secret Love
13. My Love And Devotion
14. Let’s Walk That-A-Way
15. April In Paris
16. Ready Willing And Able
17. Sugarbush
18. When I Fall In Love
19. Pillow Talk
20. Love Him
21. I’ll Never Stop Loving You
22. Bewitched
23. Sentimental Journey
24. Whatever Will Be Will Be (Que Sera Sera)

CD 2 – Hollywood:

1. Let’s Face The Music And Dance
2. Oh, But I Do
3. Pennies From Heaven
4. Three Coins In The Fountain
5. Nice Work If You Can Get It
6. It Might As Well Be Spring
7. It’s Magic
8. A Foggy Day
9. You’ll Never Know
10. That Old Black Magic
11. Soon
12. I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
13. I Had The Craziest Dream
14. Easy To Love
15. Night And Day
16. In The Still Of The Night
17. Love Is Here To Stay
18. Over The Rainbow
19. Blues In The Night
20. I’ll Remember April
21. The Way You Look Tonight
22. It’s Easy To Remember
23. Cheek To Cheek
24. Hooray For Hollywood

CD 3 – Broadway:

1. Show Time
2. Make Someone Happy
3. I Got The Sun In The Morning
4. Ohio
5. I Love Paris
6. When I’m Not Near The Boy I Love
7. As Long As He Needs Me
8. People Will Say We’re In Love
9. I’ve Grown Accustomed To His Face
10. The Surrey With The Fringe On Top
11. On The Street Where You Live
12. The Sound Of Music
13. Moonshine Lullaby
14. My Kinda Love
15. Something Wonderful
16. I Got Lost In His Arms
17. What’s The Use Of Wond’rin’
18. You’ll Never Walk Alone
19. Happy Talk
20. Lullaby Of Broadway