DORIS DAY - BEWITCHED, BOTHERED, AND BEWILDERED

BEWITCHED, BOTHERED, AND BEWILDERED

DORIS DAY

SONGWRITERS: LORENZ HART & RICHARD RODGERS

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: DORIS DAY

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: EASY LISTENING

YEAR: 1949

"Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" is a show tune and popular song from the 1940 Rodgers and Hart musical Pal Joey. It is part of the Great American Songbook. The song was introduced by Vivienne Segal on December 25, 1940, in the Broadway production during Act I, Scene 6, and again in Act II, Scene 4, as a reprise. Segal also sang the song on both the 1950 hit record and in the 1952 Broadway revival. It was performed by Carol Bruce in the 1954 London production.

Doris Day (born Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922 – May 13, 2019) was an American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist. She began her career as a big band singer in 1939, achieving commercial success in 1945 with two No. 1 recordings, "Sentimental Journey" and "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time" with Les Brown & His Band of Renown. She left Brown to embark on a solo career and recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967.

Day was one of the biggest film stars in the 1950s-1960s era. Day's film career began during the Golden Age of Hollywood with the film Romance on the High Seas (1948). She starred in films of many genres, including musicals, comedies, dramas, and thrillers. She played the title role in Calamity Jane (1953) and starred in Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) with James Stewart. Her best-known films are those in which she co-starred with Rock Hudson, chief among them 1959's Pillow Talk, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also worked with James Garner on both Move Over, Darling (1963) and The Thrill of It All (1963), and starred alongside Clark Gable, Cary Grant, James Cagney, David Niven, Ginger Rogers, Jack Lemmon, Frank Sinatra, Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, and Rod Taylor in various movies. After ending her film career in 1968, only briefly removed from the height of her popularity, she starred in her own sitcom The Doris Day Show (1968–1973).

In 1989, she was awarded the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures. In 2004, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2008, she received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award as well as a Legend Award from the Society of Singers. In 2011 she was awarded the Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career Achievement Award. Also in 2011, she released her 29th studio álbum My Heart which contained new material and became a UK Top 10 album. As of 2020, she was one of eight record performers to have been the top box-office earner in the United States four times

I'm wild again, beguiled again

A simpering, whimpering child again

Bewitched, bothered, and bewildered am I

Couldn't sleep and wouldn't sleep

Then love came and told me I shouldn't sleep

Bewitched, bothered, and bewildered am I

Lost my heart but what of it?

He is cold, I agree

He can laugh but I love it

Although the laugh's on me

I'll sing to him, each Spring to him

And long for the day when I cling to him

Bewitched, bothered, and bewildered am I

instrumental interlude

(You'll sing to him, each Spring to him)

And long for the day when I cling to him

Bewitched, bothered, and bewildered am I.