Doris Day

I'll See You in My Dreams/Calamity Jane

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I'll See You in My Dreams/Calamity Jane Review

by William Ruhlmann

This discount-priced two-fer combines two 10" LPs originally released in the early '50s and tied in to films starring Doris Day. At the time, Day was recording for Columbia Records and making movies for Warner Bros. Pictures, which tended to mean that there were no actual soundtrack albums from the films, though Columbia would often have her record albums containing the songs from her movie musicals. This was the case with I'll See You in My Dreams, released in December 1951. The film was a biopic of Tin Pan Alley songwriter Gus Kahn, who was played by Danny Thomas (Day played Mrs. Kahn), and Thomas also turned up on the album, singing the evergreens "Ain't We Got Fun" and "Makin' Whoopee!" with Day. She handled the rest, all of them pop standards from the pre-World War II era, accompanied by orchestra leader Paul Weston and the Norman Luboff Choir. Calamity Jane, from a November 1953 film, was a different story. This one actually was a soundtrack album. Well, half of a soundtrack album. Four of the eight tracks did come directly from the movie, but the other four were studio recordings. Nevertheless, Howard Keel, Day's co-star, actually got his own solo, "Higher Than a Hawk (Deeper Than a Well)." The film featured an all-new score by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster, and was an oater in the tradition of Annie Get Your Gun. It was more enjoyable on film than on record, but Day did get to sing "Secret Love," which became a big hit for her. So, these two song collections don't sit particularly easily together on one CD, though Day is, as usual, unfailingly charming whether she's handling a ballad like "My Buddy" or a feisty number like "I Can Do Without You."

Track Listing

	Title/Composer	Performer	Time	Stream
1	Ain't We Got Fun? Raymond B. Egan / Gus Kahn / Richard A. Whiting	Doris Day feat: Paul Weston & His Orchestra / Danny Thomas	02:26	Amazon
2	The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else) Isham Jones / Gus Kahn	Doris Day feat: Paul Weston & His Orchestra	03:24	Amazon
3	I Wish I Had a Girl Gus Kahn / Grace LeBoy / Henry Lee Summer	Doris Day feat: Norman Luboff Choir / Paul Weston & His Orchestra	03:23	Amazon
4	It Had to Be You Isham Jones / Gus Kahn	Doris Day feat: Paul Weston & His Orchestra	02:41	Amazon
5	Nobody's Sweetheart Ernie Erdman / Gus Kahn / Billy Meyers / Elmer Schoebel	Doris Day feat: Norman Luboff Choir / Paul Weston & His Orchestra	02:41	Amazon
6	My Buddy Walter Donaldson / Gus Kahn	Doris Day feat: Paul Weston & His Orchestra	03:15	Amazon
7	Makin' Whoopee Walter Donaldson / Gus Kahn	Doris Day feat: Paul Weston & His Orchestra / Danny Thomas	02:29	Amazon
8	I'll See You in My Dreams Isham Jones / Gus Kahn	Doris Day feat: Norman Luboff Choir / Paul Weston & His Orchestra	03:16	Amazon
9	The Deadwood Stage (Whip-Crack-Away!) Sammy Fain / Paul Francis Webster	Doris Day	03:15	Amazon
10	I Can Do Without You Sammy Fain / Paul Francis Webster	Doris Day feat: Howard Keel	01:45	Amazon
11	The Black Hills of Dakota Sammy Fain / Paul Francis Webster	Doris Day feat: Paul Weston & His Orchestra	03:01	Amazon
12	Just Blew in from the Windy City Sammy Fain / Paul Francis Webster	Doris Day feat: Paul Weston & His Orchestra	02:11	Amazon
13	A Woman's Touch Sammy Fain / Paul Francis Webster	Doris Day feat: Paul Weston & His Orchestra	02:30	Amazon
14	Higher Than a Hawk (Deeper Than a Well) Sammy Fain / Paul Francis Webster	Doris Day feat: Howard Keel	02:16	Amazon
15	'Tis Harry I'm Plannin' to Marry Sammy Fain / Paul Francis Webster	Doris Day feat: Paul Weston & His Orchestra	02:07	Amazon
16	Secret Love Sammy Fain / Paul Francis Webster	Doris Day	03:39	Amazon