This two-fers album should not be missed by anyone in love with American popular music...and if it's show tunes you like, that's all the more reason to get it.

"Day In Hollywood" is a package of twelve songs from Doris' musicals and serves as a musical retrospective of her work through 1955, the period in which musicals were the mainstay of her career. Every song is among the greatest and most popular songs ever written.

Doris Day "purists" (as I am), might cavil with the program, however, for two reasons. Unbelievably, Doris' million-selling recording of the Oscar-nominated "It's Magic" from her first picture, "Romance On The High Seas" is not included here, and the title song from "Love Me Or Leave Me" appears here rather than the hit song from the film, the Oscar-nominated

"I'll Never Stop Loving You."

Two of Doris' films, "Lullaby of Broadway" and I'll See You In My Dreams," are represented by two songs in this collection causing others of Doris' films not to be recognized at all. Giving one slot to "It's Magic," I think the other should have been given to "It's A Great Feeling" whose title song, while not the biggest of hits, was nonetheless nominated for a Best-Song Oscar.

If not that, then perhaps "Young At Heart" should have been cited. That film produced no major hit for Doris, but it was an important film if only because her co-star was Frank Sinatra!

Ah, but Columbia did not ask me, did they? LOLOL

And at least three performances here: "Just One of Those Things," "Secret Love," and "Love Me Or Leave Me," belong among Doris' Best 100 Performances, IMHO.

On "Show Time" Doris takes us to Broadway, and what a tour she gives us! Probably no discussion of the songs themselves is necessary. With the exceptions of "When I'm Not Near The Boy I Love" and "Ohio," all the songs are standards of the first rank.

Any appreciator of American popular music owes this album to him/her-self!

I found this CD in Toronto recently...it was like finding an old friend, as I had Show Time on 4-track tape way back when...it sounds even better on CD, and the mono tracks of Day in Hollywood are all old favorites, too. Doris, down in Carmel, we still think you're the greatest!

This two album set is definitely worth the price! Day in Hollywood features many delightful tunes from DD's early hit musical movies. "Showtime" is one of DD's best studio recordings. Great tunes done in that great DD style. Wait till you hear DD sing "I'm In Love With a Wonderful Guy" from "South Pacific." It gives an enticing sample of how great DD would have been as Nellie Forbush in the musical movie "South Pacific." The song selection is superb and worthy of the great La Day! Don't hesitate...get it!