August 17, 2011
We have just discovered that Warner Bros. sneaked out a DVD release of this movie without us even knowing. The film, as we previously reported, has been digitally remastered in widescreen format but is initially being released as an exclusive on the Warner Bros. Shop. The downside is this currently means ONLY US fans will be able to order it ...
August 5, 2011
As any devoted Doris Day fan will know out of the star’s 39 feature films there are now only a few titles left awaiting a digital makeover on DVD format! One of the movies in question is of course Ms. Day’s black & white thriller ‘Julie‘ which she filmed during the mid-1950s for the movie ...
August 4, 2010
Sad news broke just a few days ago that the pop maestro Mitch Miller died aged 99. The goateed American musician, singer, conductor, record producer, Artists and Repertoire man and record company executive passed away on Saturday, 31 July 2010 in a New York Hospital after a short illness. Mitchell William “Mitch” Miller was born on the 4 ...
June 4, 2010
Top hat, tails and icons of the silver screen have always stirred my imagination. Astaire, with or without Ginger, used the outfit as the perfect extension of his screen persona, whilst no one donned it as glamorously or perversely as the ambivalent Marlene Dietrich in her movies. Then there was Doris Day!… The up-and-coming Warner ...
Tags: 1950s, Calamity Jane, Film, Gordon MacRae, musical, Warner Bros.Features
October 20, 2008
On the 15 September 2008, independent British music label Zone Records released their 2nd CD instalment containing more of Doris Day’s 1950s radio shows. Many of you will recall, how just over a year ago, we were treated to the release of “The Doris Day Show – Volume 1“. The latest CD set indulges us ...
September 15, 2008
UK Release Date: 15 Sep 2008 [ Shop @ amazon.com aStore ] CD 1: Tracks 1-13 are from show date 9 May 1952 Tracks 14-25 are from show date 16 May 1952 Introduction and It’s Magic (Doris Day & Orchestra) [from the film Romance on the High Seas] (Jule Styne & Sammy Cahn) It’s A ...
May 14, 2007
There are very few CD releases nowadays that I greet with genuine interest as over the last 10 or so years more or less all of Doris Day’s studio-recorded work has been given good coverage in this format. This first CD set by Zone Records (UK) does however offers something new as it turns the ...
May 14, 2007
UK Release Date: 14 May 2007 [ Shop @ amazon.com aStore ] CD 1: Tracks 1-12 are from show date 11 April 1952 Tracks 13-24 are from show date 18 April 1952 Introduction and It’s Magic (Doris Day & Orchestra) [from the film Romance on the High Seas] (Jule Styne & Sammy Cahn) Just One ...
January 29, 2007
UK Release Date: 29 January 2007 [ Shop @ amazon.com aStore ] Whatever Will Be, Will Be [Qué Será, Será][from the fim The Man Who Knew Too Much] (Jay Livingston/Raymond B. Evans) Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps [Quizas, Quizas, Quizas] (Joe Davis/Osvaldo Farres) Move Over Darling [from the fim Move Over, Darling] (Terry Melcher/Hal Kantor/Joe Lubin) Pillow ...
August 17, 2004
US Release Date: 17 August 2004 [ Shop @ amazon.com aStore ] April in Paris (Doris Day) [from the film April in Paris] (Vernon Duke/E.Y. Harburg) I’m Gonna Ring the Bell Tonight (Doris Day) [from the film April in Paris] (Vernon Duke/Sammy Cahn) I Know a Place (Doris Day) [from the film April in Paris] ...