DORIS DAY - EVERYBODY LOVES A LOVER

EVERYBODY LOVES A LOVER

DORIS DAY

SONGWRITERS: ROBERT ALLEN & RICHARD ADLER

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: EVERYBODY LOVES A LOVER

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORD RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 1958

 

         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 of the 1950s–1960s. 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. The same year, she released her 29th studio album, 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.

         "Everybody Loves a Lover" is a popular song which was a hit single for Doris Day in 1958. Its lyricist, Richard Adler, and its composer, Robert Allen, were both best known for collaborations with other partners. The music Allen composed, aside from this song, was usually for collaborations with Al Stillman, and Adler wrote the lyrics after the 1955 death of his usual composing partner, Jerry Ross.

Everybody loves a lover

I'm a lover, everybody loves me

Anyhow, that's how I feel

Wow, I feel just like a Pollyanna

 

I should worry, not for nothin'

Everybody loves me, yes they do

And I love everybody

Since I fell in love with you

 

Who's the most popular personality?

I can't help thinkin' it's no one else but me

Gee, I feel just about ten feet tall, havin' a ball

Guess ya might call me a Pollyanna

Everybody loves a lover

 

Who's the most popular personality?

I can't help thinkin' it's no one else but me

Gee, I feel just about ten feet tall, havin' a ball

Well, I feel just like a Pollyanna.

 

I should worry, not for nothin'

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, (Call me a Pollyanna, do).