What économies Every Girl Should Know/I Have Dreamed by Doris Day NEUF

Tracks:
What Every Girl Should Know
Mood Indigo
When Youre Smiling
Fellow Needs a Girl, A
My Kinda Love
Whats the Use of Wondrin
Something Wonderful
Hundred Years from Today, A
You Cant Have Everything
Not Only Should You Love Him
What Does a Woman Do
Everlasting Arms, The
I Believe in Dreams
Ill Buy That Dream
My Ship
All I Do Is Dream of You
When I Grow Too Old to Dream
Well Love Again
I Have Dreamed
Periwinkle Blue
Someday Ill Find You
You Stepped Out of a Dream
Oh What a Beautiful Dream
Time to Say Goodnight

Performer Notes:

• 2 LPs on 1 CD: WHAT EVERY GIRL SHOULD KNOW (1960)/I HAVE DREAMED (1961).
• Originally released on Columbia.
• Liner Note Author: Pete Martin .
• Recording information: 12/11/1959-05/05/1961.
• Directors: Harry Zimmerman; Jim Harbert.
• In the early 60s, recording artists like Doris Day often would assemble the songs for their albums by coming up with a concept -- travel songs, Oscar winners, etc. -- and then picking 12 tunes, most of them from among the hundreds of pop standards that came from movie and stage musicals of the 20s, 30s, and 40s, sometimes commissioning a new song or two on the theme to be written. (Actually, all this legwork was done less often by the singer herself than by the A&R person assigned to her at the record label.) This discount-priced two-fer reissue presents two such albums, the first released originally in 1960, the second in 1961. What Every Girl Should Know was an album of songs of advice, such as "Whats the Use of Wondrin" from Rodgers & Hammersteins Carousel and "You Cant Have Everything" from the 1937 movie of the same name. I Have Dreamed was an album of songs about dreaming, such as the 1945 hit "Ill Buy That Dream" and "You Stepped Out of a Dream" from the 1941 film Ziegfeld Girl. Day, who came up as a 40s band singer, knows her way around dream songs, which were a staple of the swing era, and coming from a pre-womens liberation generation, she has no trouble articulating advice to women to be true to often imperfect males, even if listeners 40 years later may cringe here and there. As a 2001 Day compilation, the 24-track set contains perhaps a few too many obscure and not very good songs, but it does afford fans the opportunity to hear Day address many memorable show tunes, especially a clutch of lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. ~ William Ruhlmann

Format: CD (1 Disc); Stereo

Country: USA

Studio/Live: Studio

Release Date: 14 March, 2006

Label: Collectables