Britain is a country whose old men say "Happy Birthday" to Doris Day who beguiled them at the cinema when they were boys

The American actress and singer, Doris is 87 today. What you possibly didn't know about Doris, that she :

* was born Doris Kappelhoff in the Cincinnati, where her father was a music teacher and choir master and her grandparents German immigrants.

* had a car accident in 1937, which damaged her legs and curtailed her prospects as a professional dancer and while recovering, took singing lessons and at 17, began performing locally.

* had her first hit recording, 'Sentimental Journey', before I was born, in 1945 which soon became popular with demobbed soldiers from The Second World War.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUw125JMVFI

* in 1953, appeared as 'Calamity Jane', which I saw when I was 6 years old :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXSkVK4sFLQ

* won the Academy Award for 'Best Original Song' for 'Secret Love' :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL87sHjXlVU

* also sang :

The Deadwood Stage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_xmujSyxkU

The Black Hills of Dakota
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p59nrGixAYY

* starred in Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Man Who Knew Too Much' in 1956, Day sang "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)" which won an Academy Award for 'Best Original Song' and became her signature song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVuEC3r7a-o

* had her last major hit single came in the UK in 1964 with "Move Over, Darling" (lyrics at bottom of post)' from the film in which starred with James Garner, which I saw when I was 17 years old and I think was her catching up with the sexual revolution of the 1960's and was
a remake of a 1940 'screwball comedy' :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxAjIqKbeDg

* featured in the 'car wash' scene :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK_PLJZeLW4

* recorded her last album in 1967, 'The Love Album', which was not released until 1995.


* has been an outspoken animal rights activist since her retirement from show business.

Move Over Darling :

Our lips shouldn’t touch.
Move over darling.
I like it too much.
Move over darling.
That gleam in your eyes is no big surprise anymore,
Cos you fooled me before.

I’m all in a spin.
Move over darling.
I’ve got to give in.
Move over darling.
And though it’s not right, I’m too weak to fight it somehow,
Cos I want you right now.

The way you sigh, has me waving my conscience bye-bye.
You can call me a fickle thing,
But I’m practically yours forever, because

I yearn to be kissed.
Move over darling.
How can I resist.
Move over darling.
You captured my heart, and now that I’m no longer free,
Make love to me.

The way you sigh,
Has me waving my conscience good-bye.
You can call me a fickle thing,
But I’m practically yours forever, because

I yearn to be kissed.
Move over darling.
How can I resist.
Move over darling
Please give me your love, I’m longing for you.
I need all your love, honest I do.
You captured my heart and now that I’m no longer free

Make love to me.
Move over darling....