What Every Girl Should Know
US Release Date: 21 March 1960
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What Every Girl Should Know
(Robert Wells/David Holt) -
Mood Indigo
(Duke Ellington/Irving Mills/Albany Bigard) -
When You’re Smiling
(Mark Fisher/Joe Goodwin/Larry Shay) -
A Fellow Needs a Girl
[from the musical Allegro]
(Oscar Hammerstein II/Richard Rodgers) -
My Kinda Love
(Joe Trent/Louise Alter) -
What’s the Use of Wond’rin’
[from the musical Carousel]
(Oscar Hammerstein II/Richard Rodgers) -
Something Wonderful [1959 remake]
[from the musical The King & I]
(Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein II) Listen -
A Hundred Years from Today
(Joseph Young/Ned Washington/Victor Young) -
You Can’t Have Everything
(Mack Gordon/Harry Revel) -
Not Only Should You Love Him
(Sid Robin) -
What Does A Woman Do
[Love theme from the film Midnight Lace]
(Maxwell Anderson/Allie Wrubel) -
The Everlasting Arms
(Martin Broones/Paul Francis Webster)
The 1950s were Doris Day’s most successful recording decade and this project was her last to be completed within it. Sessions for this album were held over 4 separate days in the run up to Christmas 1959 (11 Dec – 22 Dec 1959). Doris was accompanied by the Harry Zimmerman orchestra which regularly provided the music on Dinah Shaw’s popular TV variety-show.
What Every Girl Should Know offers twelve velvety-smooth ballads that are performed with an understated sway and swing. One of the highlights from these sessions is Doris’s much improved remake of the King and I classic “Something Wonderful”, a tune that she had first recorded for her 1951 single of songs from the musical. Doris also gives a stellar performance of Louis Armstong’s “When You’re Smiling” and includes “What Does a Woman Do”, a vocal version of the love theme from her hit thriller Midnight Lace.
Conductor: Harry Zimmerman
Label: Columbia Records (USA)
Format: 12″ Mono LP (#CL-1438) / 12″ Stereo LP (#CS-8234)
LP Cover Artwork: Ted Coconis