I suppose it was a combination of shear curiosity to who she was and a love for the catchy-hook of her single Move Over, Darling that I decided to find out more about the lady, her music and her career...

The only problem was there simply wasn't much out there to find until I found and joined her British fanclub, The Doris Day Society.

Slowly but surely I discovered her movies, extensive music catalogue and a lady who seemingly had a heart of gold. The twist to this tale is that I decided to share my appreciation with cyberspace.

Thus, on the 30 May 1998, I launched what was a very basic looking version of the site you see today (can you believe it used to look like this picture!). Run initially as an online spin-off to the fanclub I quickly took the decision to develop and build it as a solo project.

One of my earliest encouragements was in 1999 when after printing and mailing a copy of the site to Carmel I received a lovely letter from the great lady herself. Click here to read what she thought of the site.

Originally www.dorisday.com, in 2003, I as a "gesture of goodwill" handed my domain over to Arwin Productions (Doris's company) who had plans to develop their own official website. So, folks Discovering Doris relocated to its current-day home of www.dorisdaytribute.com.

As the site blossomed and grew so did my love and involvement in the music industry. This led to my involvement on the Doris Day projects below. The most significant of which was the '80th birthday' tribute ("Her Life in Music") which I coordinated and Doris kindly contributed a message for....

The rest as they say boys and girls is "cyber" history....

- Stephen Munns, Webmaster