…and all is right with the world. Excuse me while a light a candle and pour a glass of chardonnay.
I’ve gotta admit, she doesn’t sound like a dame who’s pushing 90. Good for her.
Nice whiskey voice now.
I had no idea that she sang inYoung Man with a Horn. I thought she lip synched with Sara Vaughan.
Whenever conversation turns to great women I always jump in with Doris Day and usually am rewarded with smirks. A couple of minutes of biography wipes all the smirks away. She is a remarkable woman.
I thought this was a compilation of previously recorded, but not released, songs rather than anything new?
Her voice sounds a little more Lauren Bacallish, but it has had plenty of time to become that, so they may very well be.
I should worry, not for nothin’,
Everybody loves me, yes they do.
And I love everybody
Since I fell in love with,
Fell in love with,
Fell in love with you.
– Everybody Loves a Lover
I remember her, from before she was pushing 90.
(A paraphrase of Oscar Levant: “I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin”, itself a reference to her squeaky clean screen image).
The Office last year had a brief reference to Jan Levinson (sic) recording an album of Doris Day covers.
I confess I did not remember that Miss Kappelhoff was still with us.
But I am damn happy to learn: she sounds great!
It is. They were recorded in 2004 not long before her son’s death; he was to produce the album but when he died they were shelved for a few years.
She was interviewed by Paul McCartney in September to promote the album; interesting article.
Ah, thanks. So they’re more recent than I thought. I had thought they were songs from the 60s/70s or something.
It says in the link some of the songs were recorded for a television project in the eighties and never released.
This is great! She is an amazing vocalist.
I remember when her “Everybody Loves a Lover” song came out in the 1950’s. She sings a duet with herself, and while that wasn’t the first time someone did that (Les Paul & Mary Ford come to mind), it was quite unusual at the time and made the song stand out as an artistic achievement.
God, I hate to be a bringdown artist, but these recordings are from the 1980’s. They’re just only recently released, that’s the deal.
I’m glad they’re out there.
I hope she’s doing well.
I have no idea what she sounds like now, but if our experience with Anita O’Day, who released an album shortly before her death, is any indication, I wouldn’t expect much touring from Ms. Day.
Anita O’Day, icon of the Newport Jazz Festival: - YouTube
Anita O’Day, a mere 48 years later. Anita O'Day at Franc Pinot (Paris) 07/01/2004 - YouTube
Not bad for someone 88 years old, you betcha. However.
::: sigh ::: Go buy the CD, the proceeds go to benefit animal rescue.
There was Koko Taylor.
I hesitate to mention my ignorance, Your Holiness, may the Great Holy of Holies, the Divine Twickster smite me for speaking to a Moderator, but Day’s son sings on the album and didn’t die until 2004. Is your Divinity certain?
Braces for thunderbolt.
Why would her son having died in 2004 preclude him from having recorded a song in the '80s?
Another Poster claimed that it was more recent.
Dear God I miss Koko Tylor.
I saw her often. One of the great things about living in Chicago was that she was often playing somewhere and it wasn’t impossible to get tickets.
The year before she died she was at the Blues Festival in Helena, Arkansas and I didn’t go see her.
She could
I read in more than one place the recordings were from the 1980s. Now I have to go look it up.
And I will. Back soonest.