November 22, 2011
With just a couple weeks to go until the US release of Doris Day’s new album “My Heart” the singer has just received another big honour from The Recording Academy. Continuing its tradition of preserving and celebrating great recordings, The Recording Academy announced yesterday that Ms. Day’s signature tune “Que Sera Sera” (Whatever Will Be, ...
November 14, 2009
British radio & television legend Sir Terry Wogan has covered Doris’s trademark tune ‘Que Sera Sera’ in aid of the BBC’s Children in Need appeal. BBC Children in Need, with its Pudsey bear mascot, is the annual telethon held by BBC television. Since 1980, the event has raised over £500 million (over $800 million) to ...
October 31, 2008
Free from her seven year contract with Warner Brothers, Doris Day was finally able to consider tempting offers from other Hollywood studios; allowing the opportunity for husband/manager, Marty Melcher to attain producer credit on almost all her future movies… Fortunately, her first choice was a winner and there must have been no hesitation in accepting ...
February 20, 2007
The Oscar-winning composer Ray Evans wrote countless hit songs including Doris’s most successful single release “Que Sera, Sera”. The music industry is mourning the sad loss of the prolific Jewish songwriter Ray Evans. He apparently died from a heart attack on Thursday, 15 February 2007. Evans was born in Salamanca, New York and best known ...
January 22, 2007
In Spring 2006, I was out shopping in Toronto (Canada) and heard a club track playing, that to my surprise sampled Doris Day’s hit single “Que Sera, Sera”. The question for me at the time was “what is this?”. This mystery was solved months later when I finally discovered it was a club track by ...
September 15, 2006
Columbia/SonyBMG International have repackaged their late 1960s LP compilation “Whatever will be, will be”. The 10-track collection now featuring a cute 1950s cover shot will be released in October 2006 as part of their new series of budget-price CDs which are being released in the USA, Canada, Hong Kong, Australia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Norway and ...
March 19, 1996
Germany Release Date: 19 March 1996 [ Shop @ amazon.com aStore ] Disc: 1 Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) (Livingston/Evans) Somebody Somewhere (Loesser) We’ll Love Again (Evans/Livingston) Julie (Stevens/Adair) Love in a Home (DePaul/Mercer) Gone with the Wind (Magidson/Wrubel) Song Is You (Kern/Hammerstein) Don’t Take Your Love from Me (Nemo) Gypsy in ...
October 19, 1964
US Release Date: 19 October 1964 [ Shop @ amazon.com aStore ] Give A Little Whistle [from the animated film Pinocchio] (Leigh Harline/Ned Washington) The Children’s Marching Song [Nick Nack Paddy Whack] (Additional & arrangement by Malcolm Arnold) Getting to Know You [from the musical The King & I] (Oscar Hammerstein II/Richard Rodgers) Listen Zip-a-dee-doo-dah ...
May 16, 1956
US Release Date: 16 May 1956 [ Shop @ amazon.com aStore ] James Stewart — Dr. Ben McKenna Doris Day — Jo McKenna Brenda De Banzie — Lucy Drayton Bernard Miles — Edward Drayton Daniel Gélin — Louis Bernard (as Daniel Gélin) Christopher Olsen — Hank McKenna This is Alfred Hitchcock’s lavish remake of his ...