DORIS DAY - A WOMAN'S TOUCH

A WOMAN’S TOUCH

DORIS DAY

SONGWRITERS: SAMMY FAIN & PAUL FRANCIS WEBSTER

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: CALAMITY JANE

LABEL: IDEAL MUSIC

GENRE: SOUNDTRACK

YEAR: 1953

Calamity Jane is a Technicolor western musical released in 1953. It is loosely based on the life of Wild West heroine Calamity Jane and explores an alleged romance between Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok in the American Old West. The film starred Doris Day as the title character and Howard Keel as Hickok. It was devised by Warner Brothers in response to the success of Annie Get Your Gun.

It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song ("Secret Love", Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster) and was also nominated for Scoring of a Musical Picture and Best Sound, Recording (William A. Mueller).

The songs and screenplay form the basis of a stage musical of the same name that has had a number of productions.

A woman's touch, a woman's touch

The magic of Aladdin couldn't do as much

She's a wizard, she's a champ

And she doesn't need a lamp

A woman's touch can weave a spell

The kind of hocus-pocus that she does so well

With the magic of a broom

She can mesmerise a room

With a whisk-whisk here and a whisk-whisk there

And a dustpan for the cinders

With a rub-rub here and a rub-rub there

She could polish up the winders

Then presto-chango, suddenly

The sun comes shining through

And what does Mr Sunshine say to you

How-do-ya-do

It makes you blink, to stop and think

A woman and a whisk broom

Can accomplish so darn much

So never underestimate a woman's touch

A woman's touch can quickly fill

The empty flower boxes on a winder sill

One smile from her and zoom

Little buds begin to bloom

A touch of paint, a magic nail

Can turn a kitchen chair into a Chippendale

Even make a lamp appear

Like a crystal chandelier

With a tack-tack here and a tack-tack there

And a hand around a hammer

With a mop-mop here and a mop-mop there

You can give a cabin glamour

Then gosh-o-mighty, all at once

The cabin that we knew

Becomes a shiny castle built for two

Me and you

The pies and cakes, a woman bakes

Can make a fella tell her

That he loves her very much

So never underestimate a woman's touch.