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Post by superman on Mar 11, 2010 23:26:37 GMT
Doris Day is now insisting that she be called Clara Bixby ... that no one should refer to her as Doris Day ever again.
When asked WHY (since her real name is allegedly Doris - not a stage name) does she want to be called Clara Bixby ... her publicist says "Well, that's a pet nickname Bill Bixby gave her"
Hmmmm all we have to do is find Bill Bixby and ask him if this is true...
OOPS!
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Post by dav8d777 on Nov 1, 2011 17:14:29 GMT
I hope I'm doing this right... I found two very young pics of Doris Day and I think they make the difference a little more obvious... I'm putting the first in as an attachment... Attachments:
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Post by dav8d777 on Nov 1, 2011 17:15:27 GMT
Okay... here's the other... Attachments:
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Post by dav8d777 on Nov 1, 2011 17:16:35 GMT
One thing I can't help but notice in all of these cases is that I'm MUCH more familiar with the replacement's face than the original...
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Post by hounddawg on Dec 11, 2011 4:54:51 GMT
Well, bad news, everyone. I just listened to some "before" and "after" Doris Day music. How this ever slipped by me before, I just do not know. I must have been too young to believe such a thing could be perpetrated on us. The woman singing the theme from "Pillow Talk" is definitely NOT Doris Day. She is talking the words more than she is singing them, because she just couldn't make the grade and "lilt" her voice the way The Real Doris did. I don't need to hear any more than the original "Que Sera' Sera'" and then "Pillow Talk" to know this is two different women. But it would be something to put up the original "Que Sera'" song and compare it to the TV version. What happened to my DORIS DAY???!!!    It's eight years later and I have to respectfully disagree. Her tonality and vibrato are identical, (to my ear when comparing both original recordings) and the phrases in PILLOW TALK required a faster, nearly staccato enunciation. In fact the tempo was just too fast for Doris to have sustained her notes and sung her lilty inflections as she did in Que Sera Sera. (it is a shame that she'd record any song that most ham & egg singers could pull off because she had such a wonderful voice. But even famous torch singers and lady balladeers (At least the Caucasian ones like Julie London) were pretty much relegated to USO and Japanese tours by the 60's, and most couldn't even give it away (their singing, that is) by then. Bill Haley and Buddy Holly were working plenty in the late 50's, but Doris had peaked as a chart topper post-WWII. And, by 1959 I'm sure her advisers (and studio casting big shots) were thinking that she was a bit mature to play those Little Bo Peep roles. ("I've never even seen one of those things before, you sex fiend!") At 35 she couldn't go out for any roles about a 35 year old woman who just left the convent because there were no roles about a 35 yr old woman who just left the convent. If she wanted to work she had to change with the times, and by 1959 even the chaste, sweet, Sandra Dee's "virtue had been compromised" in A SUMMER PLACE.And to others who assert that a replacement Doris' eyes were too far apart, when she began wearing heavy Mascara the out edges of her eyes were darkened, possibly creating the illusion of "eyes that had separated". |
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Post by philovance38 on Mar 21, 2013 0:10:57 GMT
Anyone who says the 60's recordings of Doris Day are the same voice of the early 50's recordings of Doris Day must be deaf. A review of the 60's compilation of her recordings (none of which were close to a hit) were terrible and were filled with "with handclaps, vocal choruses, shuffling percussion, and accentuated brass. . ." to disguise the weak voice. The published review of he 60's Collectables Records CD confirms this. She was offered millions by Las Vegas to appear in person after she found out her deceased "husband" Marty Melcher had embezzled all of the money and left her broke but she turned it down because she could not sing like Doris Day and instead took a much lower paycheck from CBS for her sitcom. Also, the A&E biography of Doris Day flashed to a 1935 Ohio newspaper that reported her accident and showed she was 17 years old and singing for an orchestra band. Her "official" birthdate showed 1924 as her birth year. How do you figure she was singing with an orchestra at 11 years old!! The complete A&E biography has been removed from the internet. Areal close look of the 1955 Doris Day with the Rock Hudson Doris Day shows a much younger probably in her early thirties, not a 42 year old woman.
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