The Doris Day Special

ORCHESTRA SWELLS

# Now I shout it from the highest hill

# Even told the golden daffodil

# At last

# My heart's an open door

# And my secret love's

# No secret anymore. #

From Television City in Hollywood,

it's The Doris Mary Anne Kapplehoff Special.

Starring Doris Day. With her special guest, Perry Como.

# Who will buy this wonderful morning?

# Such a sky you never did see

# Who will tie it up with a ribbon

# And put it in a box for me?

# So I can see it at my leisure

# Whenever things go wrong

# And I would keep it as a treasure

# To last my whole life long

# Who will buy this beautiful feelin'

# I'm so high I swear I could fly

# Me, oh my, I don't want to lose it

# There must be someone who will buy

# This wonderful feelin'

# This wonderful feelin'

# This wonderful feelin'

# Groovy...

# Doodle-oo doo-doo, doo-doo, doodle-oo-doo

# Doo-doo-doo doo-doo, doo-doo

# Feelin' groovy

# Slow down, you move too fast

# You gotta make the mornin' last

# Kickin' down the cobble stones

# Looking for fun, and feelin' groovy

# Doo-doo-doo doo-doo, doo-doo, doodle-oo-doo

# Boo doo-doo-doo doo-doo-doo doo doo-doo-doo

# Let the morning time drop all its petals on me

# Slow down, you move too fast

# Life, I love ya

# Feelin' groovy. #

# La-la-la-la la-la-la-la la-la-la

# La-la-la-la la-la-la-la la

# La-la-la-la la-la-la-la la-la-la

# La-la-la la-la-la-la la-la-la-la-la

# Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on, whoa...

# La-la, how the life goes on

# Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on, whoa...

# La-la, how the life goes on

# La-la-la-la la-la-la-la la-la-la

# La-la-la-la la-la-la-la la

# La-la-la-la la-la-la-la la-la-la

# La-la-la la-la-la-la la-la-la-la-la

# Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on, whoa...

# La-la, how the life goes on

# Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on, whoa...

# La-la, how the life goes on. #

# Slow down, you move too fast

# Feelin' groovy

# Slow down, you move too fast

# Feelin' groovy

# Slow down, you move too fast

# Feelin' groovy. #

APPLAUSE

# Hey, buds below

# Up is where to grow

# Up with which below can't compare with

# Hurry

# It's so lovely up here

# Come, rhododend, courage little friend

# Everything will end rhodo-dandy

# Hurry

# It's lovely up here

# Climb up, geranium

# It can't be fun subterran-ium

# On the exterior

# It's cheerier

# RSVP, peonies, pollinate the breeze

# Make the queen of bees hot as brandy

# Come give at least a

# Preview of Easter

# Life can be rosy

# If you're a posy

# Hurry

# It's so lovely up here! #

APPLAUSE

Welcome.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and that ever-popular...

.."Hi there." LAUGHTER

Oh, look. I don't know how to start a special. I mean, how do you do that?

As far as I'm concerned, I started my special on the bicycle back there.

So why don't we get on with it, OK?

Besides, I have some friends I want you to meet. Daisy June...!

Come on in here. Daisy June!

Come on. Come up here. That's it, that's a girl.

Look into camera, and show everybody how beautiful you are.

This is my beautifulest... Oops! Thanks a lot, Daisy.

That's Daisy June.

And then we have, Muffy...

Come, Muffy! Come, Muffy.

Yes, come on.

Yeah, this is Muffy. Now, Muffy, I've had the longest.

And Muffy hails from Las Vegas, Nevada.

I think she was a topless dancer there, but...

since she's become a mother she went straight.

Come on, Beau! Come on, Beau. Come on Beau. Yes,

cos Beau, he is handsome and he loves his mother.

And we have Charlie Brown, who is Muffy's little boy.

Yes, Mummy, here's your boys. Here's Charlie -

Charlie's a little peculiar-looking since he lost his beard.

Tiger... Oh, Tiger!

Tiger, he has... Well, he has a pedigree that long. I swear.

His real name is Le Grand El Tigre De Sassafras.

Oh, yes. He's a college graduate, from the east.

Now, we have Bubbles.

Come on, my darling.

And here is... Oh, Bubbles is a super dog! Now, Bubbles...

Take a good look at Bubbles, cos she's very rare.

She's part Schnauzer, and she's part poodle. Which makes her a Schnoodle.

Now, last but not least, I didn't give you Daisy's origin. Here we go.

Daisy... Now, look into camera.

See, Daisy came from the shelter,

and she's part collie, and er... Yeah.

LAUGHTER

# Does your mother realise

# The stork delivered quite a prize

# The day he left you on my family tree?

# Does your dad appreciate

# That you are merely super-great

# A miracle, without a pedigree?

LAUGHTER

# If they don't

# Send them both to me. #

Are you having a good time?

# Cos you must have been a beautiful baby

# You must have been a wonderful pup

# When you were only startin' to go to kindergarten

# I'll bet you stirred the other pups up

# And when it came to winning blue ribbons

# You must have shown the other dogs how

# I can see the judges' eyes

# As they handed you the prize

# I'll bet you made the cutest bow-wow

# You must have been a beautiful puppy

# Cos Daisy, look at you now

# And Muffy, look at you

# And Bobo, look at you

# Tiger, look at you

# Bubbles, look at you

# Charlie... #

Oh, look at you, Charlie. Poor Charlie.

Folks, I have to tell you something about Charlie.

He didn't really want to be on this special tonight because he's embarrassed.

You see, he had all his upper teeth pulled. He's having a gum problem,

and he just didn't want to be on my show.

And I said, "Charlie, look at me.

"Look at your mother.

"Charlie, with or without teeth, I love you.

"I really do, Charlie."

# Cos you must have been a beautiful puppy

# And Charlie

# Charlie, look at you now

# Bow-wow, wow-wow-wow... #

APPLAUSE

Can I move them over a little?

Knock everybody off. Come on.

-Good to see you.

-Nice to see you, Doris.

Charlie's all right. I've got the problem.

You? You kidding? You look perfect.

-Perfect?

-You really do. Stand up.

-I look like Soupy Sales!

I want to take a look.

I have to see... Oh, that's marvellous. Was I right?

-You're putting me on.

-No, was I right?

-Wrong!

I'm a tux man. I've worn tuxedoes all my life.

-This looks kind of dumb.

-It is perfect.

Folks, I have to explain something to you. You see,

we have been going around and around, with 20 long-distance phone calls

about what Perry was going to wear.

I said, I thought he should wear this because he looks so great.

And I said I thought I should wear a tux.

Would you like to tell them what you said?

I said if you want to wear a tux, you wear it on the plane.

And I wore it on the plane, and I served 143 chicken dinners.

LAUGHTER I got all the gravy and the peas in my pockets...

-You're supposed to sing now.

-You're too much.

Not there, darling...

Over there, just follow the breadcrumbs.

-LAUGHTER

-Gently!

(Come on now, everybody. Come on now. Come here. Come here, everybody.)

(Tiger! You have to be very quiet, because Perry Como's going to sing.)

(You know how he is.) Hi, Perry...

# This time

# We almost made the pieces fit

# Didn't we, girl?

# This time we almost made some sense of it

# Didn't we, girl?

# This time I had the answer

# Here right in my hand

# And I touched it

# And it had turned to sand

# This time we almost sang our song in tune

# Didn't we, girl?

# This time we almost made it to the moon

# Didn't we, girl?

# This time we almost made our poem rhyme

# Didn't we almost make it

# This time?

# Didn't we, girl?

# Mmm, hmmmm....

# Didn't we, girl?

# This time

# We almost made our poem rhyme...

# This time

# We almost made that long

# Long climb

# Didn't we almost make it

# This time?

# Didn't we almost make it

# This time? #

APPLAUSE

You know, when I heard that I was going to do a special,

I was so excited because of all the beautiful clothes that

I would have a chance to wear, you know?

And I had all kinds of gorgeous things picked out.

And then the producer sent the script to me.

And I had seven changes, and it was very depressing.

And so I said to them, "Look, I have about 20 things picked out,

"and they're so beautiful, and I just have to wear them."

They said, "But how are you going to do that?"

I said, "I don't know, but we have to do it."

They said, "How are you going to do it?" And this is how we did it.

Oh, there she is, folks - Doris Mary, a symphony in red and white.

And don't you love that hat? I loved it so much, I bought it!

I wear it around the house a lot.

And is that pretty? You have to admit that's pretty.

My favourite white cotton knitty.

With lovely daisies on the dress and in the basket.

You have to have a basket of daisies!

Ahem! Would you call that the girl next door? Pretty sexy, I'd say!

Perfect for the fandango!

But nobody does the fandango anymore. Whatever happened to that dance?

We should bring it back.

Ha-ha-ha! Coo-oo!

Hi there!

Something to wear around the house, girls!

When it rains.

Or even when it doesn't! There's a close-up of Doris Mary again.

CASTANET MUSIC

Arriba, arriba, arriba!

OK, everybody get ready for the big taco number -

and bring your own tacos!

Or a very heaped enchilada!

# If I am fancy-free

# And love to wander

# It's just the gypsy in my soul

# There's something calling me

# From way out yonder

# It's just the gypsy in my soul

# No cares, no strings

# My heart has wings

# There is no other life

# Of which I'm fonder

# It's just the gypsy in my soul

# It's just the gypsy in my soul. #

APPLAUSE

And now, to change into something more comfortable,

to let your hair down, girls - never hurts -

a marvellous pumpkin velour pantsuit. Isn't that a gas?

And the pink vinyl raincoat.

Whoops! And something a little more comfortable...

Say, that's ME under there! LAUGHTER

And it's bound to turn all eyes.

Even mine!

Sorry about that!

Well, what do we have here?

The latest thing in wedding gowns - or, I should say, pants.

Perfect for getting married, or arrested, whatever.

But it does give the groom a chance to see what he's getting,

and I think it's only fair!

This smart alpaca coat dress in red and navy wool was designed

by Michael Novarese.

I don't know why, but it's hard to stand up straight

in this little number!

There's a hat, coat and peek-a-boo umbrella.

Coo!

And you can lean on it.

Ah, this is so pretty!

With the gypsy belt and big soutache flowers in navy and red.

Appliqued on knit, set off with white organdy blouse and billowing sleeves.

And hair.

Well!

For that really super night out,

this groovy jumpsuit really makes you feel like

a person could take you anywhere and not be ashamed.

And you can do the high kick.

Or exercises.

Whatever.

Ah, and after a sophisticated - yawn - evening,

retire into something sexy and seductive.

Quilted gown with matching mukluks.

And there's that hat again!

I told you I love it!

Ah, a little fashion right out of the '20s. I mean, the '70s!

You see that? It could take you back to the '20s, couldn't it?

And here we go, and there's Crazy Legs Day!

Wee!

# Rah-rah rumble seats and running boards

# Them was the good old days

# Knee pants and dime-a-dance girls, oh, lord

# Them was the good old days

# Them was the good old days, with model As

# And radios, bo, dee, oh, do

# Rah-rah rumble seats and running boards

# Them was the good old days

# Rudy Vallee, oh, you kid

# Them was the good old days

# Everybody eating up everything he did

# Them was the good old days

# Them was the good old days, they had the foxtrot

# The Charleston to the nickelodeon

# Rah-rah rumble seats and running boards

# Them was the good old days

# Them was the good old days

# Them was the good old days

# Them was the good old days, model As

# And radios, bo, dee, oh, do

# Rah-rah rumble seats and running boards

# Them was the good old, them was the good old

# Them was the good old... #

And that is how we did it!

APPLAUSE

# I love you as I never loved before

# Since first I met you on the village green

# Come to me or my dream of love is over

# I love you as I loved you

# When you were sweet

# When you were sweet 16. #

You sing so good.

APPLAUSE

You sing so good.

-That's my favourite record of yours.

-Thank you.

-It's a beautiful song, isn't it?

-Yes, I love it.

Hope it doesn't date us too much!

Does it bring back memories?

Uh, a few. A few nice ones and a few pretty bad ones.

Do you want to hear a funny story about that song?

How long is it?

It's a very funny story! A few years ago,

I was doing a guest appearance at the Chicago Theatre in Chicago.

They had shows at 8:40 in the morning.

I'm out there, singing a song, with the pin spot,

and I'm being as romantic as I can, with the eyes and the thing.

And some joker up on the balcony threw one of those jawbreakers.

You know those jawbreakers? Hit me right in the...

Almost knocked my eye out.

Really?

And I, 25, 26 years old,

mean Italian, I challenged the whole theatre, you know.

I could have started a real stampede.

I caught so much...you know, for doing that.

It was kind of a stupid thing to do,

but that's the kind of memory I have with that song.

Where did he hit you?

Right there.

Aw.

He could've knocked my eye out.

Yes.

Ah, let me kiss it and make it better.

Oh...

When it hit there, it kind of rolled down... It rolled...down in there...

Down in that area?

Mmm-hmm.

Anywhere else?

Well, anyway, it hit me over here...

SHE LAUGHS

You know a song that I like that you recorded?

What?

A thing called Ba-Joom-Boom.

-Ba-Joom-Boom?

-Yeah.

I didn't record Ba-Joom-Boom.

It was a good song.

I don't know a song... Ba-Joom-Boom!

HE WHISPERS

I don't!

Yes, you do, because you recorded the thing.

Look, you like it?

I do.

Well, you like it so much, then you sing it, cos I don't know it.

BAND PLAYS

# Ba-joom-boom

# Ba-joom-boom

# Everybody

# Loves a lover

# Ba-joom-boom

# I'm a lover

# Ba-joom-boom

# Everybody loves me

# Anyway, that's how I feel

# Wow, I feel

# Just like a Pollyanna

# I should worry

# Ba-joom-boom

# Not for nothing

# Ba-joom-boom

# Everybody loves me, yes, they do

# And I love everybody

# Since I fell in love with you

# Who's the most popular person?

# Everybody

# Loves a lover

# I can't help thinking it's no-one else but you

# I'm a lover, everybody loves me

# Gee, I feel just about ten-feet tall

# Anyway, that's how I feel

# Wow, I feel just like Pollyanna

# I should worry

# Ba-joom-boom

# Not for nothing

# Ba-joom-boom

You're right!

# Everybody loves me

# Yes, they do!

# And I love everybody

# Since I fell in love with

# Fell in love with

# Fell in love with you. #

# In my loneliness

# When you're gone and I'm all alone

# And I need your caress... #

You'll miss me.

# I just think of you

# And the thought of you holding me near

# Makes my loneliness soon disappear

# Yes, I love you so

# And that for me Is all that I need to know

# Quiet nights and quiet stars

# Quiet chords from your guitar

# Floating on the silence that surrounds us

# Quiet thoughts and quiet dreams

# Quiet walks by quiet streams

# And a window looking on

# The mountains and the sea

# How lovely

# Yes, I love you so

# And that for me Is all that I need to know

# I will wait for you

# Till the sun falls from out of the sky

# For what else can I do?

# I will wait for you

# Meditating how sweet life would be

# When you come back to

# Me

# Quiet nights and quiet stars. #

APPLAUSE

Kiss me.

Listen, when my mother heard that you were going to be on my show,

she said, "Do you think that Perry Como would sing my favourite song?"

And I said, "No."

Why did you say that?

SHE LAUGHS Would you?

Why, I sure will. What's your mother's favourite song?

Summertime, do you know it?

No(!)

Yes!

SHE LAUGHS

Will you sing it?

I sure will.

OK.

MUSIC "Summertime" By George Gershwin

# Summertime

# And the living is...

(UPBEAT TUNE)# In the summertime when all the trees and leaves are green

# And the red birds sing

# I'll be blue

# Cos you don't want my love

# You don't seem to care a thing about me

# You'd rather live without me

# Than to have my arms around you

# When the nights are cold and you're so all alone

Two...

Three... Five... Seven...

Four... Six!

# I summertime when all the trees and leaves are green

# And the red birds sing I'll be blue

(GERSHWIN) # With Daddy and Mammy

# Standin' by. #

APPLAUSE

Oh, that was for you mum. Thank you.

You're welcome.

I could have done it much better with a tux on, though.

LAUGHTER

Are you ready for this?

Uh-huh, ready.

# If I had my life to live over

# I'd do the same things again

You would not and you know it.

# I'd still wanna roam

# To the place we called home

# Where my happiness never would end

# I'd meet you when school days were over

# We'd walk down the lanes that we knew

# If I had my life to live over

# I'd still fall in love with you

# Let me call you sweetheart

# I'm in love with you

# Let me hear you whisper

# That you love me too

# Keep that love light glowin'

# In your eyes so true

# If I had my life to live over

-# I'm in love

-# I'd still fall in love

# With you. #

APPLAUSE

# You ought to be in pictures... #

There she is, folks. That's Doris Mary Ann Kapplehoff.

And I'm Doris Day.

And little did I know, when I stood under that tree,

in those daidies and knee socks,

that I was going to end up in Hollywood.

Little did I know.

LAUGHTER

Well, that's the way it goes.

And now I'm in television.

Oh, I have to tell you something else.

It's interesting to me that people always wrote and said to me,

"Ms Day, we really love your pictures.

"You make us feel so good.

"And when we leave the theatre we're always so happy and gay

"and you just make us smile all the time."

And I could never understand that, because all I ever did was cry.

I have cried more than any actress in Hollywood.

Buckets of tears.

And now that I'm on television, of course, I love television.

I love everything about television.

I love my series, I love the people that I'm working with.

I just hate television sets.

You know, every other week, my set goes out.

I put the show on, I look at myself,

I call my hairdresser and I say,

"How do I look to you?" And she said, "Your head looked too long."

I said, "But it looked flat on my set."

I called my wardrobe girl, "How did my blouse look to you?"

She said, "It looked red." I said, "It looked pink on my set!"

We're all going crazy.

So I called the repairman, he comes in, every other week.

The clicker never works.

I click, nothing.

So, I had him out there one day, and that night I got into bed, see...

About 1.30 in the morning, I woke up, couldn't sleep, and I thought,

"A-ha, I'll see what that joker did today."

So, I give it a click...

and of course, it has to warm up, you know.

The sound comes on, but you have no picture.

And I heard someone crying.

And I thought, "Was that my Aunt Marie?

"No, she has nothing to cry about.

"Is that my mother?

"No, she's too far from my room, it can't be my mother."

And then I... "That's me!

"That was my voice! It's me crying!"

And all of a sudden, the picture came on and there I was,

flung on the bed, crying buckets of tears over Gordon MacRae.

Here we go again.

I have cried over Rex Harrison, James Cagney,

Jack Carson, Cary Grant,

Rock Hudson, Jimmy Durante!

I have cried over everybody.

In fact, my life has been one continuous crying jag.

And I can prove it.

It IS true! It was him all the time! Ain't it?! Ain't it?!

No, it's you! It's you, it's you!

Because of you!

It's enough to scare you to death.

I know what I owe you. I know it. But there's no way to pay it.

Don't you see there's no way to pay it?

Ain't there?

You'll do just fine.

What should I do, bury my head in the sand?

What's the matter? Are you afraid you're losing your grip?

You really enjoy your work.

Once I get in bed, I'm through.

You walked away. You walked away!

My wife can't take much more of this.

Turn me around a bit.

It's rotten, dirty...

It's all I've got. I don't want to lose it.

I haven't done anything like this before.

It's all right, there has to be a first time.

-I thought we were going to get married.

-Forget it.

SHE CRIES

You're becoming hysterical!

-I can't do it!

-I hate to do this, but this is for your own good.

Just sit there and laugh about it if you want to.

I tell you, I'm just warn out.

Does... Does anybody have another hankie?

I have a towel, Doris Mary.

-Would you like to use it?

-Wow!

-APPLAUSE

How did you know I was here?

Are you kidding? After all those pictures we've done together, I'd know that cry anywhere.

Oh, ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce to you one of my dearest friends,

Mr Roy Harold Fitzgerald of Winnetka, Illinois!

-LAUGHTER

-Anyone here from Winnetka?

THEY LAUGH

No, all kidding aside, folks, Mr Roy Harold Fitzgerald

you all know as the one and only Mr Tab Hunter!

-LAUGHTER

-You come back here, Tab!

You come back and give me a kiss before you go.

Oh-ho! Oh, my, I love that man!

Mmm, and he does tickle.

APPLAUSE

# Bows and flows of angel hair

# And ice-cream castles

# In the air

# And feather canyons

# Everywhere

# I've looked at clouds that way

# But now they only block the sun

# They rain and snow on everyone

# So many things I would have done

# But clouds got in my way

# I've looked at clouds from both sides now

# From up and down

# And still somehow

# It's cloud illusions

# I recall

-# I really don't know clouds

-(Really don't know clouds)

# At all

# Tears and fears and feeling proud

# To say I love you right out loud

# Dreams and schemes and circus crowds

# I've looked at life that way

# But now old friends are acting strange

# They shake their heads They say I've changed

# But something's lost

# But something's gained in living every day

# I've looked at life from both sides now

# From win and lose

# And still somehow

# It's life's illusions I recall

-# I really don't know life

-(Really don't know life)

# At all. #

APPLAUSE

# You sigh, the song begins

# You speak and I hear violins

# It's magic

# The stars desert the skies

# And rush to nestle in your eyes

# It's magic

# Without a golden wand

# Or mystic charms

# Fantastic things begin

# When I am in your arms

# When we walk hand-in-hand

# The world becomes a wonderland

# It's magic

# How else can I explain

# Those rainbows when there is no rain?

# It's magic

# Why do I tell myself

# These things that happen

# Are all really true?

# When in my heart I know

# The magic

# Is my love

# For you

# Gonna take a sentimental journey

# Gonna set my heart at ease

# Gonna make a sentimental journey

# To renew old memories

# I got my bag

# Got my reservation

# Spent each dime

# I could afford

# I'm like a child

# In wild anticipation

# I long to hear that "All aboard"

# Seven!

# That's the time we leave

# At seven

# I'll be waiting up

# For heaven

# Counting every mile

# Of railroad track

# That takes me back

# Never thought

# My heart could be so yearny

# Why did I decide to roam?

# I gotta take that sentimental journey

# Sentimental journey home

# Sentimental journey. #

APPLAUSE

You mean the hour is up?

Oh...I can't believe it!

And I had so many fashions that I wanted to wear.

Yeah, me too. LAUGHTER

-What is that?

-What does it look like? It's my tux.

Oh, you're ready for the trip home, huh?

LAUGHTER

APPLAUSE

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