Listen to Day

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Listen to Day
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Studio album by
Released1960
Genre
Length28:30
Label Columbia [1]
Doris Day chronology
Cuttin' Capers
(1960)
Listen to Day
(1960)
What Every Girl Should Know
(1960)

Listen to Day is a 1960 album by the American singer Doris Day. [2] The album mostly consists of Day's singles from the 1950s. [3]

Contents

In March 1960 Billboard magazine reported that Columbia Records was declaring April of that year 'Doris Day Month' and had released Listen to Day as a limited release available with every purchase of Day's album What Every Girl Should Know . [4] Allmusic rated the album 3 stars out of 5. [2]

It peaked at 26 on the Billboard 200 album chart. [3] Day's biographer Tom Santopietro described Listen to Day as a "mixed bag" that was "hastily put together to capitalize on Day's extraordinary popularity" and that it featured "too many mediocre songs". [3]

Track listing

  1. "Pillow Talk" (Buddy Pepper, Inez James) – 2:10
  2. "Heart Full of Love" (Albert Beach, Guy Wood) – 2:42
  3. "Anyway the Wind Blows" (Joseph Hooven, Marilyn Hooven, William D. "By" Dunham – 2:20
  4. "Oh! What a Lover You'll Be" (J. Hooven, M. Hooven) – 2:10
  5. "No" (Lee Pockriss, P. J. Vance) – 2:05
  6. "Love Me in the Daytime" (Bob Hillard, Robert Allen) – 2:46
  7. "I Enjoy Being a Girl" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 2:35
  8. "Tunnel of Love" (Bob Roberts, Patty Fisher) – 2:10
  9. "He's So Married" (Jimmy Dodd, Will Fowler) – 2:22
  10. "Roly Poly" (Sol Lake and Elsa Doran) – 2:15
  11. "Possess Me" (Irving Roth, Joe Lubin) – 2:50
  12. "Inspiration" (Roth, Lubin) – 2:05

Personnel

Charts

Chart performance for Listen to Day
Chart (1960)Peak
position
US Billboard 200 [3] 26

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References

  1. "Doris Day – Listen to Day at Discogs". discogs.com. Retrieved April 14, 2021.
  2. 1 2 Listen to Day at AllMusic
  3. 1 2 3 4 Tom Santopietro (August 5, 2008). Considering Doris Day: A Biography. St. Martin's Publishing Group. p. 374. ISBN   978-1-4299-3751-1.
  4. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (March 28, 1960). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p. 3.{{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)