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Doris Day

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Doris Day

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Also known as Doris Mary Kappelhoff

American actress and singer (1922–2019)

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Doris Day was an American female artist whose career spanned from 1939 to 1989. She was active in the fields of acting, jazz, and pop music. Her musical style has been associated with tags such as 50s, oldies, and easy listening. Similar artists include Perry Como, Peggy Lee, Jo Stafford, Rosemary Clooney, and Judy Garland.

Day was recognized in the Hollywood Walk of Fame collection. She authored ten works, including *First Aid for Our Best Friends*, *Ruins*, *Doris Day*, *Don't Let Yesterday Take up Too Much of Today*, and *Doris Day Songbook*. A quote attributed to her states, "The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it."

Born in 1922, Doris Day died on May 13, 2019. Her official website is dorisday.com.

Synthesized by Vinony from 23 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
10

Top works

  • First Aid for Our Best Friends
  • Ruins
  • Doris Day
  • Don't Let Yesterday Take up Too Much of Today
  • Doris Day Songbook

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United States
Active from
1922-04-03
Active to
2019-05-13
actingactorsjazzmotion picture actors and actressespopshow tunes

Discography

Official siteDiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1,131,228
Total plays
9,843,670

Tags

jazzfemale vocalists50soldieseasy listening

Similar artists

Perry ComoPeggy LeeJo StaffordRosemary ClooneyJudy Garland

Doris Day (born Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922 – May 13, 2019) was an American actress and singer. Her career spanned nearly 50 years, during which she became one of the most popular female singers of the 1940s and 1950s and later one of Hollywood’s most successful box-office stars in the 1950s and 1960s. She was known for her “girl next door” screen image and her distinctive singing voice. Day began her career as a big band singer in 1937. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Doris+Day">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis

    · 2022 · cited 13,882x

  2. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

    · 2016 · cited 11,699x

  3. The Capabilities of Market-Driven Organizations

    · 1994 · cited 9,645x

  4. GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral

    · 2017 · cited 8,256x

  5. Freshwater biodiversity: importance, threats, status and conservation challenges

    · 2006 · cited 7,172x

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Music

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Quotes

  • “The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.”
  • “I’ve been through everything. I always said I was like those round-bottomed circus dolls — you know, those dolls you could push down and they’d come back up? I’ve always been like that. I’ve always said, "No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I’m going to come right back up."”

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Encyclopedic overview

Doris Day (born Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922 – May 13, 2019 ) was an American actress and singer. With an entertainment career that spanned nearly 50 years, Day was one of the most popular and acclaimed female singers of the 1940s and 1950s, with a parallel career as a leading actress in Hollywood films, where she became one of the biggest box-office stars of the 1960s. She was known for her on-screen girl next door image and her distinctive singing voice.

Day began her career as a big band singer in 1937, achieving commercial success in 1945 with two No. 1 recordings, "Sentimental Journey" and "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time" with Les Brown and His Band of Renown. She left Brown to embark on a solo career and recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967. Her recording of "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)" became known as her signature song and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2011.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Doris Day” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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