EVERY SUNDAY AT 3 PM AND WEDNESDAY AT 8 PM EST

[Pedro]

A young man with a horn is a treat. There is an excellent jazzy atmosphere still increased by the black and white. Here is a snapshot from the movie :

[Lauren Benjamin]

Mike~
Thank you for your hard work on presenting a 2-hour show today. I very much enjoy your commentary especially the compliments to Doris and where she stood in selling records and where she charted. These are long-lost facts and I think you cannot emphasize enough what an admired and loved singer Doris was during the 40s and 50s. This info is all but lost now and it is up to you and your show to remind those who listen.

Thanks, again, for your hard work,
Lauren

Go Saints!!!

[doris-day-fan]

Mike,
Thanks for another Super Show on Super Sunday! Your show is musical history with your great commentary...each week you out do yourself Mike. Looking forward to each show and spreading the word.

Hope you don't get much more snow as I know it is record breaking already - stay warm!

Mary Anne

[mikeydv]

2 REBROADCASTS WEDS NITE AT 8 AND MIDNIGHT EST IF YOU MISSED ANYTHING.

[Jan Morrow]

Hi Mike,
I've meant to post a comment for a long time already. I just wanted to tell you THANK YOU! Thank you for the superb job you're doing with the show on Sundays. I listen to it every week - I never miss it! I even listen to it again on Wednesdays because it's so good!
It's great to hear songs that most of us have not heard before. I have lots of favorites already! I also like when you play other singers' versions - it's good to hear what they do with DD songs.
Also, thank you very much to Keith for playing Doris all day and night long; I'm so glad to have found a radio where my favorite lady is finally being played.
Mike, I cannot emphasize more how much I LOVE the show! The music is so clear as if it was recorded yesterday and the knowledge you have on Doris' songs is really amazing! It makes me enjoy the songs even more knowing the history behind them. You do know her so well and she would be SO proud and happy to know you're doing this for her. I just know it.
Thank you again so much for putting my Doris on the air again - not that I remember when she was on the air since I could actually be her granddaughter.
Anyway, it was just a little note to say thank you
I can't wait for Sunday!
Jan

[mikeydv]

How very nice of you to be so complimentary. I am glad you are enjoying the show...it is the main reason for doing it, and I love doing it, too. Keep listening!
You always have such wonderful comments on the forum; it is a pleasure to read them.

[Doris Martin]

Hi Mike,
I've meant to post a comment for a long time already. I just wanted to tell you THANK YOU! Thank you for the superb job you're doing with the show on Sundays. I listen to it every week - I never miss it! I even listen to it again on Wednesdays because it's so good!
It's great to hear songs that most of us have not heard before. I have lots of favorites already! I also like when you play other singers' versions - it's good to hear what they do with DD songs.
Also, thank you very much to Keith for playing Doris all day and night long; I'm so glad to have found a radio where my favorite lady is finally being played.
Mike, I cannot emphasize more how much I LOVE the show! The music is so clear as if it was recorded yesterday and the knowledge you have on Doris' songs is really amazing! It makes me enjoy the songs even more knowing the history behind them. You do know her so well and she would be SO proud and happy to know you're doing this for her. I just know it.
Thank you again so much for putting my Doris on the air again - not that I remember when she was on the air since I could actually be her granddaughter.
Anyway, it was just a little note to say thank you
I can't wait for Sunday!
Jan

Hello my dear Jan...thanks for putting my very thoughts so well...I could not do it myself...Doris is a miracle that came into my life,,,,DM

[Doris Martin]

How very nice of you to be so complimentary. I am glad you are enjoying the show...it is the main reason for doing it, and I love doing it, too. Keep listening!
You always have such wonderful comments on the forum; it is a pleasure to read them.

Thank you dear Mike....I love your Doris show...you are great DM

[mikeydv]

OKAY GUYS.......KEITH IS NOT ON THIS FORUM, SO HE DOES NOT SEE THE MESSAGES.
HE IS WAITING FOR SOME OF YOU GUYS TO CALL IN AND TELL HIM WHY YOU LIKE THE STATION, AND HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT DORIS DAY. SO...WHO IS GOING TO START THE CALL BALL ROLLING?
540=288=4001 OPTION 4
BESIDES...IF WE ACTUALLY HAVE A DORIS DAY BIRTHDAY SHOW ON APRIL 4, WE NEED SOME MESSAGES TO DORIS AND/OR ABOUT DORIS ON THE PHONE!!!!

[webmaster]

Some very kind person has sent me all the shows I've missed on here and I hope to repay the favour to others who have not been able to listen live at some stage also. It's amazingly biographical - from what I've heard so far - how do you do it, Mike? Do you plan it from notes/memory beforehand?

[Jan Morrow]

Mike,
I'll be calling - you can certainly count me in! it's going to be a LONG message!
Jan

[mikeydv]

Brian: It takes me about 90 hours to do all the necessary research for each show. About 50 percent is memory; the rest is out and out research (old album liners, about 15 books I own, various copies of Billboard,Cashbox, Variety, Downbeat and other magazine to which I have subscribed over the years. Not to mention many on line resources (the least of these is wikipedia because it is not always accurate and not totally inclusive. The Bear Family sets are pretty good, but there are many inaccuracies there as well. I also have the cooperation of several recordologists on AllExperts.Com., who have been most helpful. I am still waiting for someone (John M?) to come out with a complete discography that shows every recorded/released single complete with its flip side and listing date as well as orchestrators and arrangers...a Herculean job to say the least. Including the original albums is easy (liner notes are all there); the rest is not. And Sony is NOT cooperative. Peter Flappers notes are great.

Jan: Be sure to listen to Show 7 on Feb 21st (One of your web comments will be aired, if it is not cut/edited)

[Lauren Benjamin]

Mike~
You are doing a superb job. I love hearing the background on the recordings. And I'm hoping that other fans not as steeped in DD history as perhaps we are will learn more about her prestigious career.

I wrote to John M. a week ago but have not received a return mail, so I don't know what's going on with him.
He usually writes back.

Have you tried contacting Columbia Records? My guess is that you have, but just wondering. Terry sold the rights to all of Doris' recordings (I'm sure you already know that) during the Rosenthal fiasco, so I doubt that Sony is all that interested in Doris as they just purchased what was already recorded.

I think Katie Gertz was supposed to write a book also, but who knows where that went. I'm told she had Doris' complete cooperation with the book also. Might be a source, if you can get in touch with her. I think she's on someone's Facebook page.

I think Don Chang did a lot of writing about Doris' recording career, but I don't know where to find his articles outside of Googling his name. Howard maybe?

Lauren

[Jan Morrow]

Lauren,
I don't know where you get your information but Doris is not working with Katie Gertz on a book.
And as far as I am concerned, I only trust one book: Doris Day Her Own Story.
And yes, you're right, Mike is doing wonderfully!
Jan

[mikeydv]

You're right, Jan. I am always amazed at the tremendous LACK of information that Columbia Records possessed. Several times in the past 50 years I have written them about various things. ONCE AND ONLY ONCE did someone cooperate in the early 50's with a printed list of all Doris releases starting with IT TAKES TIME, her first. It took me up through DARN THAT DREAM. They were not cooperative at all in helping with flip side info/o rchestration, etc. (That I got from my own collection). At some point, I bought EVERY DD RECORDING....many on 45 and 78 rpm, which I still own. SONY IS NOT COOPERATIVE AT ALL. John M is supposed to be working on the exhaustive discography, but he disappears for weeks....and nothing forthcoming as of yet.
Doris' own book, of course, is excellent, but it stopped too soon. There should have/could have been a complete discography, just like the filmography(which is easier to find). If it is a single I did not buy (esp. when a single might have been part of an ep or something like that), occasional errors can be made, for which I apologize...I am doing the best I can. As for the Bear Family Books....they are good as far as they go..but instead of just showing "songs by session"..they should have given release w/flip side info. as well. For example, there were times when Doris recorded a song say in April, and it would not be released until Dec when it was backed with some thing more recently recorded. I wish Frank Comstock would give us a lot more info. while he is still around...he knows a lot.

[Lauren Benjamin]

Jan~
You certainly are entitled to your own opinion but I have all the current books written about Doris as they provide great insight into her life, which I enjoy reading.

As for the Katie Gertz book, I, of course, cannot reveal where that came from but other fans on this list heard the same thing. Guess we were all misinformed.

Lauren

[littlegoldfish666]

You're right, Jan. I am always amazed at the tremendous LACK of information that Columbia Records possessed. Several times in the past 50 years I have written them about various things. ONCE AND ONLY ONCE did someone cooperate in the early 50's with a printed list of all Doris releases starting with IT TAKES TIME, her first. It took me up through DARN THAT DREAM. They were not cooperative at all in helping with flip side info/o rchestration, etc. (That I got from my own collection). At some point, I bought EVERY DD RECORDING....many on 45 and 78 rpm, which I still own. SONY IS NOT COOPERATIVE AT ALL. John M is supposed to be working on the exhaustive discography, but he disappears for weeks....and nothing forthcoming as of yet.
Doris' own book, of course, is excellent, but it stopped too soon. There should have/could have been a complete discography, just like the filmography(which is easier to find). If it is a single I did not buy (esp. when a single might have been part of an ep or something like that), occasional errors can be made, for which I apologize...I am doing the best I can. As for the Bear Family Books....they are good as far as they go..but instead of just showing "songs by session"..they should have given release w/flip side info. as well. For example, there were times when Doris recorded a song say in April, and it would not be released until Dec when it was backed with some thing more recently recorded. I wish Frank Comstock would give us a lot more info. while he is still around...he knows a lot.

It must be very hard work trying to research everything about Doris's career. I assume it's a lot easier to find out things today with today's stars because of the internet and such things but back then they didn't have these things to keep us up to date on celebrities. But I think I can safely say we all greatly appreciate your extremely hard work in the research you do and the time you spend giving us this wonderful insight into Doris's career and life. Your dedication and hard work is much appreciated. I wasn't fortunate enough to be around at the time when Doris was big in the movie and music industry, it was before my time so I thank you from the bottom of my heart for giving us this wonderful show, I've laerned a lot about Doris since being on this forum and listening to your show You guys are just full of information

[doris-day-fan]

Mike,
I recently met someone who knows Frank Comstock at one of my talks - will contact him and see if he can be of some help and get the two of you together. That could be very interesting. Also, what about contacting Ted Nash? That could be arranged for sure. The possibilities are endless.....You are doing an incredible job, a labor of love, in presenting this wonderful show for us - thank you, Mike, and thank you Keith and FredNetRadio!

Mary Anne

[melancholy]

THANK YOU SO MUCH TO THESE GREAT PEOPLE HAVING MADE A YOU-TUBE SERIES OF Mike's Broadcasts.
I sat hear at my pc for hours and hours,figuring out the time-difference,seeing the show aired through Frednet,but no Doris.Other songs came up,so I have to find a way to listen correctly.So for all of you out there,who somehow missed it,or don't know how to listen in,you can capture it on youtube.What an agreable voice you have Mike,what lovely passion that shines through it,thank you. Dorine

[Jan Morrow]

Thank you Mike for today's show.
I'm so happy that you played one of my very favorite songs: Three Coins In A Fountain and I agree with you, noone can sing it like Doris does! and I also love Young At Heart by Frank Sinatra.
Thanks for a great show!
Jan

[mikeydv]

Thanks, everyone, for being so supportive. As long as you continue to stay tuned, we will keep it going as long as the music (and Keith's patience) holds out. I particularly appreciate the response of many of you to the slight diversion while I tried to put Doris' longevity and popularity in its proper setting in both the 40s and early 50s.
I am also trying VERY HARD to include ALL THE BEST of her available music. If I miss something you want to hear, CALL IN AND REQUEST IT. We have had VERY FEW phone calls sharing memories, making requests, etc. WE NEED A LOT MORE! (540 288 4001/option 4). Thanks~!

[mikeydv]

THIS WEEK'S BROADCAST (TODAY 2/21 AT 3 PM AND WEDS 2/24 AT 8 PM AND MIDNIGHT ES T:

THE 7TH SHOW: This is the 2nd of two shows devoted to the pop music of the early 1950's (1950-1954) before the real beginnings of rock and roll (as opposed to rhythm & blues & soul.) More great songs from Doris today, but especially more from some of those great performers of her time who have also been forgotten.
Don't forget to call in your messages to Doris/comments/memories for THE BIG BIRTHDAY SHOW on APRIL 4 from 1-4 p.m. EST (http://www.frednetradio.com). 540-288-4001 (option 4) or email: mike@frednetradio.com.
Don't wait if you want to be included in the show's airing that day.

NEXT WEEK (2/28) WE RETURN TO THE SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY OF DORIS' MUSICAL CAREER AS WE PICK UP WITH THE YEAR 1951....LOTS OF GREAT SONGS (40 IN ALL!!!)

[unadka]

Hi Mike,

you said I should phone in and give a message for Doris no matter how I know English.

Oh, I tried many times to read my message, but it still isn't good. I desided to record it and I was so dissappointed, my English doesn't sound englishly at all. This is the best I could do, what I'm going to send you via e-mail, but it is probably the first one and from the bottom of my heart.

I wish you the best show with many phone ins and that DD will enjoy it and phones in personally.

T H A N K Y O U !

Nada

[mikeydv]

Nada...I lOVE your message. Doris will too!

[daybyday08]

I called in. I hope it was okay and that you received it. I just hung up when I was finished I hope that was right. I was a bit nervous but I'm glad I did it. Thanks Mike!!