Jazz Articles about Doris Day

About Doris Day

The Great American Songbook

Doris Day Was So Much More Than The "Girl Next Door"!

by Joan Merrill
September 25, 2025

Doris Day was often called America's “girl next door"--friendly, wholesome, relatable, and unintimidating. Women wanted to be her and men wanted to marry her. It was an image so firmly attached to her that it overshadowed her remarkable talent. In her book Holding my own in No Man's Land, film critic Molly Haskell wrote about Doris as a role model. “Doris Day most always played women who followed a career, strong independent women who enjoyed ...

Radio & Podcasts

New Releases With Birthday Shoutouts to Doris Day, Pearl Bailey, Alberta Hunter and More

by Mary Foster Conklin
April 11, 2022

This broadcast presents new releases from Dan Perantoni, Idit Shner and the Jim Self/John Chiodini Duo with birthday shoutouts to Doris Day (100!), Pearl Bailey, Amina Claudine Myers, Alberta Hunter, Rachel Therrien, Tessa Souter, Meredith d'Ambrosio and Norah Jones, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by purchasing their music during this time of pandemic so they can continue to distract, provoke, comfort and inspire. Playlist Dan Peranton} “Yatra--Ta" from Lovin' and a ...