Catalogue Number: A732245
Label: Collector's Choice Music (USA)
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With A
Smile And A Song
- Give A Little Whistle
[from the animated film Pinocchio]
- The Children's Marching Song
[Nick Nack Paddy Whack]
- Getting
to Know You
Listen
[from the musical The King & I]
- Zip-a-dee-doo-dah
[from the movie Song of
the South]
- The Lilac Tree
- High
Hopes
Listen
[from the film A Hole in the Head]
- Do Re Mi
[from the musical The
Sound of Music]
- Whatever
Will Be, Will Be
[Qué Será, Será] [1964 Remake]
[from the movie The Man Who Knew Too Much]
- The
Inch Worm
- Swinging on
a Star
- Sleepy Baby
- With
a Smile and a Song
You'll
Never Walk Alone
- If I Can Help Somebody
- Nearer My God to Thee
- The
Prodigal Son
- Abide with Me
- Bless This House
- You'll Never Walk Alone
Listen
[from the musical
Carousel]
- In the Garden
- Walk with Him
- Scarlet Ribbions
[For Her
Hair]
- Be Still and Know
- I Need Thee
Every Hour
- The
Lord's Prayer
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Review by Allen Pollock:
Media
obsession with the lives of celebrities currently in
public favour due to proven talent or just plain
notoriety may be fair game for comment but it seems
unfair to rake over the life of a long self-imposed
retired eighty-four year old star and leaving matters
for conjecture, based on unsubstantiated claims made in
two recently published books.
Doris Day
will always be celebrated for a career which brought joy
through her films and recordings so the Collectors’
Choice Music reissue combination of two of her rarer
albums WITH A SMILE AND A SONG/YOU’LL NEVER WALK ALONE
(CCM-957) is a timely reminder of that fact even though
their opposing concepts were originally intended to meet
differing moods.
The first
album, recorded in 1964, is an appealing collection of
songs - many from Disney films – with cute kid’s chorus,
suitably upbeat arrangements and Day vivacity guaranteed
to lift the spirits of all ages. Doris delivers
irresistible versions of SWINGING ON A STAR, GIVE A
LITTLE WHISTLE and ZIP-A-DEE-DOO-DAH with ballads SLEEPY
BABY, GETTING TO KNOW YOU and the title number slowing
the pace. A charming update of WHATEVER WILL BE, WILL BE
(QUE SERA SERA), joins them all in conveying the
intuitive warmth and innate vocal style which
established Doris as such a personable singer.
Same
qualities apply to YOU’LL NEVER WALK ALONE, released two
years earlier, at a time when all singers were expected
to record at least one seasonal or sacred sourced album.
Doris did both and this collection of secular and
religious songs of faith, inspiration and family values
may not hit the right button for all but accepted as
examples of vocal sincerely and pure expression, IF I
CAN HELP SOMEBODY, ABIDE WITH ME, SCARLET RIBBONS and
THE LORD’S PRAYER are amongst tracks which give power
for contemplation. It’s not difficult to accept that
Doris believed every word, assisted by varying backings
as sparse as a simple organ or within full orchestral
settings.
This US
release has attractive art-work and inner booklet
photographs in keeping with excellent notes and besides
inclusion in the Day Bear Family box-set anthologies,
both albums have already had UK “2 on 1” release but as
part of different combinations
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