[78-L] Doris Day

[David Lennick]

I see what happened here..I paraphrased too quickly and didn't stress that it 
was Doris Day who someone said "could have recorded great stuff in her later 
years, as Clooney did". With which I totally disagree, but hey, folks, that's 
me. I can't stand Doris Day's early singing (was she pretending to be drunk?), 
I can't stand Doris Day's middle singing ("I'll String Along with You" has to 
be one of the most soporific records ever made), I can't stand Doris Day's 
later singing (precious precious precious blechhhhhh), she was tolerable in 
"Love Me Or Leave Me" as long as you forgot that she was portraying a much more 
interesting person, and she made "romantic comedies" that were a laughing stock 
then, let alone today.

dl

On 9/12/2011 10:08 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> I seem to have been misinterpreted here..I was piling it on Doris Day, not
> Clooney. Clooney was great no matter what she sang, including Mambo Italiano
> and Botch-a-Me. Meanwhile, let's add Anita O'Day to my list of singers who
> could do no wrong.
>
> dl
>
> On 9/12/2011 9:11 PM, Andrea Walsh wrote:
>> Say what you like about Rosemary Clooney, but I met her several times, and
>> she was one of the sweetest ladies I ever met. She owned a piano once owned
>> by George Gershwin, which I marveled at, and lived in the house that Russ
>> Columbo owned until his death. She loved to tell stories, and showed me all
>> around her home. I was lucky to have met her.
>>
>> Andrea Walsh
>> On Sep 12, 2011 6:05 PM, "Mark Bardenwerper"<citrogsa at charter.net>   wrote:
>>> On 9/12/2011 7:53, David Lennick wrote:
>>>> Clooney was mentioned early on, in a context like "if she hadn't been
>> forced at
>>>> gunpoint by Mitch Miller to record crap, she could have done good stuff
>> later
>>>> on". But someone would have had to force her at gunpoint to get rid of
>> that
>>>> elongated "l" in every word and that phony cheek-paralyzing smile. Phony
>> phony
>>>> phony phony phony. Sorry.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> You gotta admit though she could do white soul. I was not big on her
>>> acting. She sure had her day and she had her songs. Italian mombo...
>>> Day could act. Versatile moreso than the others.
>>> They all brought home the bacon.
>>>
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