Hooray for Hollywood (album)

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Hooray for Hollywood was the name of a two-album set recorded by Doris Day, released by Columbia Records. The two-album set was released by Columbia under the catalog number AC2L-5, but each individual LP was also released in both monaural and stereophonic versions as indicated below.

Contents

[edit] Volume 1

Volume 1 was released by Columbia on October 20, 1958. The catalog number of the mono version was CL-1128, and of the stereo version, CS-8066. On April 23, 2007 it was released, together with You'll Never Walk Alone, as a compact disc by Sony BMG Music Entertainment.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Hooray for Hollywood" (Richard A. Whiting, Johnny Mercer)
  2. "Cheek to Cheek" (Irving Berlin)
  3. "It's Easy to Remember" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)
  4. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields)
  5. "I'll Remember April" (Gene DePaul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye)
  6. "Blues in the Night" (Harold Arlen, Mercer)
  7. "Over the Rainbow" (Arlen, E.Y. Harburg)
  8. "Our Love Is Here to Stay" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
  9. "In the Still of the Night" (Cole Porter)
  10. "Night and Day" (Porter)
  11. "You'd Be So Easy to Love" (Porter)
  12. "I Had the Craziest Dream" (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon)

[edit] Volume 2

Volume 2 was released by Columbia on January 19, 1959. The catalog number of the mono version was CL-1129, and of the stereo version, CS-8067.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" (Irving Berlin)
  2. "Soon" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
  3. "That Old Black Magic" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer)
  4. "You'll Never Know" (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon)
  5. "A Foggy Day" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin)
  6. "It's Magic" (Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn) (1952 Re-recording) (with Percy Faith and his Orchestra)
  7. "It Might As Well Be Spring" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II)
  8. "Nice Work if You Can Get It" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin)
  9. "Three Coins in the Fountain" (Styne, Cahn)
  10. "Let's Face the Music and Dance" (Berlin)
  11. "Pennies from Heaven" (Arthur Johnston, Johnny Burke)
  12. "Oh, But I Do" (Arthur Schwartz, Leo Robin)

It should be noted that the version of "It's Magic" on this album was recorded a number of years previous to this project and only appears on the mono version of this release.

[edit] Historical note

Doris Day's 1958 recording of "Hooray For Hollywood" is part of radio broadcast history. On November 22, 1963, the ABC Radio Network was feeding Day's "Hooray For Hollywood" song to its affiliated stations across the United States when the radio network suddenly interrupted the song at 1:36:50 PM EST to broadcast its first bulletin concerning the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

The network had just begun playing the Day song at 1:35:49 PM EST when suddenly it started transmitting a series of tone beeps, while the song continued playing, to alert affiliates that an important news bulletin was about to air. Day's recorded voice had just sung the lyrics, "Hooray for Hollywood, where you're terrific if you're even good, where anyone at all", when the feed of the song was suddenly stopped, immediately followed by the live voice of ABC Radio News anchor Don Gardiner, telling listeners:

"We interrupt this program to bring you a special bulletin from ABC Radio. Here is a special bulletin from Dallas, Texas. Three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade today in downtown Dallas, Texas. This is ABC Radio. To repeat, in Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade today. The president now making a two-day speaking tour of Texas. We're going to stand by for more details on the incident in Dallas. Stay tuned to your ABC station for further details. Now we return you to your regular program."[1]

At that point, the feed of the Day song was not continued. Gardiner's ABC Radio bulletin at 1:36 PM EST on November 22, 1963 was the very first JFK assassination bulletin to be aired by any broadcast network entity -- in either radio or television -- within or outside the United States. Bulletins broadcast by other radio networks such as NBC, CBS, Mutual, RKO and Westinghouse aired after the initial ABC Radio bulletin. The first TV network bulletin was aired on CBS television at 1:40 PM EST.

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Doris Day albums
You're My Thrill (1949) · Young Man with a Horn (1950) · Tea for Two (1950) · Lullaby of Broadway (1951) · On Moonlight Bay (1951) · I'll See You in My Dreams (1951) · By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953) · Calamity Jane (1953) · Young at Heart (1954) · Love Me or Leave Me (1955) · Day Dreams (1955) · Day by Day (1956) · The Pajama Game (1957) · Day by Night (1957) · Hooray for Hollywood (1958; 1959) · Cuttin' Capers (1959) · What Every Girl Should Know (1960) · Show Time (1960) · Bright and Shiny (1961) · I Have Dreamed (1961) · Duet (1962) · You'll Never Walk Alone (1962) · Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962) · Annie Get Your Gun (1963) · Love Him (1963) · The Doris Day Christmas Album (1964) · With a Smile and a Song (1964) · Latin for Lovers (1965) · Doris Day's Sentimental Journey (1965) · The Love Album (1994)