AGAIN
DORIS DAY
SONGWRITERS: LIONEL NEWMAN &
LYRICS BY DORCASCOCHRAN
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
ALBUM, "AGAIN/IT’S MAGIC"
LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS
GENRE: CLASSIC
YEAR: 1949
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's
film career began during the latter part of the Golden Age of Hollywood with
the film Romance on the High Seas(1948), leading to a 20-year career as a
motion picture actress. 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, Jack Lemmon, Frank Sinatra, Richard
Widmark, 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).
Again, this
couldn't happen again
This is that once
in a lifetime
This is the thrill
divine
What's more, this
never happened before
Though I have
prayed for a lifetime
That such as you
would suddenly be mine
Mine to hold as I'm
holding you now and yet never so near
Mine to have when
the now and the here disappear
What matters, dear,
for
When this doesn't
happen again
We'll have this
moment forever
But never, never
again (never, never)
We'll have this
moment for ev er
But never, never
again (never, never).