On April 3, let’s celebrate Doris Day, a very great singer.
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Dorisb4day is a great screen name because
of Oscar Levant’s witticism (he knew Doris Day
“before she was a virgin”) but mostly because
of the voice of Doris at break of day or when
driving on Rte 17 and listening to her sing
“Sentimental Journey” with Les Brown (“and
his band of renown”) and “Dream a Little Dream
of Me” or “Someone Like You,” “A Hundred Years
from Today,” or “Love Me or Leave Me,”
the face cherubic, the flip side of Sinatra’s
brooding in Young at Heart, blonde
and relentlessly upbeat, but there is sex in that voice
from Playlist by David Lehman (Pittsburgh, 2019)
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Author: The Best American Poetry
