Essential Love Songs [Import]

Doris Day | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 9, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Columbia Europe
• ASIN: B00004YU57
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #574,357 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps (Quizas, Quizas, Quizas)

2. Move Over Darling

3. Can't Help Falling In Love

4. Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)

5. Three Coins In The Fountain

6. Secret Love

7. You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want To Do It)

8. I'll See You In My Dreams

9. Moonlight Lover

10. You'll Never Know

11. I Only Have Eyes For You

12. More

13. Send Me No Flowers

14. When I Fall In Love

15. People Will Say We're In Love

16. Day By Day

17. Dream A Little Dream Of Me

18. Something Wonderful

19. I'll Never Stop Loving You

20. The More I See You

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ultimately an Essential for your CD collection !, December 17, 2000

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Mr. K "Webmaster of the 'Discovering Doris' w... (UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Essential Love Songs (Audio CD)

This collection of popular love songs was compiled after over 1500 fans cast their votes at dorisday.com and includes hit material sung by Celine Dion/Nat King Cole (When I Fall In Love), UB40/Elvis Presley (Can't Help Falling In Love), Frank Sinatra (Three Coins In The Fountain), Shirley Bassey (You'll Never Know), Mamas and the Papas (Dream A Little Dream Of Me), Chris Montez (The More I See You) plus musical scores from "Oklahoma!" (People Will Say We're In Love) and "The King and I" (Something Wonderful).

To say the least, you are given a real taster for the many Day styles with tracks appearing from some of her most unforgettable albums whilst signed to Columbia (1947-67). It also features the title soundtrack songs from her romantic comedies like 1963's Move Over, Darling where she starred opposite James Garner and 1964's Send Me No Flowers which paired her for the third and final time with pal Rock Hudson. There are also bonus tracks like the Spanish ballad Perhaps... which was on the soundtrack for a long running UK TV commercial and of course, the Aussie film Strictly Ballroom. Plus rarities like the unreleased single Moonlight Lover based on Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No.2, the swingy US b-side Every Now And Then and the dramatic UK b-side This Too Shall Pass Away.

It's a must for any fan of music...miss this and miss out big time !

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the more imaginative Doris compilations, July 8, 2002

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Essential Love Songs (Audio CD)

This excellent compilation is made up of tracks that fans voted for (will record companies try this idea more, please?). There are some songs that can found on a lot of Doris compilations, but also plenty of equally brilliant less well known songs.

Some of the songs are very old. Dream a little dream of me hit the top of the American charts back in 1931. Doris recorded her version in the late fifties, before the Shirelles and a good ten years before the Mamas and Papas. I only have eyes for you is also from the thirties, although many people identify it with the Flamingoes or Art Garfunkel, both of whom had huge hits with covers of it. You'll never know and The more I see you were big American hits for Dick Haymes (who also wrote and had a hit with Love letters, normally associated with Ketty Lester) in the 1940's.

When I fall in love was an American top 20 hit for Doris in 1952, but it is Nat King Cole's cover which everybody in Britain regards as the definitive version. His version almost topped the British charts in the late fifties and again in the late eighties.

Doris's versions of all these songs are of the highest quality, but it is the less obvious songs which make this collection essential. My personal favorite is Send me no flowers, which is usually ignored by compilers of Doris CD's, but there are some even rarer tracks here.

This is a stunning compilation, with plenty for Doris diehards yet with enough familiar songs to attract casual buyers.