Remarks:
This is the song that made Doris Day’s name. It hit number on the US pop chart in 1945 just as the troops were coming home from the Second World War. The band is Les Brown’s Band of Renown, a famous swing band. Swing music was Anglo-Americanized jazz music and Doris Day herself was a pale imitation of Ella Fitzgerald. Doris Day passed away this past week at age 97.
See also:
- songs, the 1940s
- Anglo Americans
- posts that mention Doris Day:
- I Am Not Your Negro – if you want to know what James Baldwin thought of her
- 1949 media diet review
- Nina Simone: Little Girl Blue – a song Doris Day covered in 1962
- birth names
Lyrics:
Gonna take a sentimental journey
Gonna set my heart at ease
Gonna take a sentimental journey
To renew old memories
Got my bag and got my reservation
Spent each dime I could afford
Like a child in wild anticipation
Long to hear that “All aboard!”
Seven, that’s the time we leave, at seven
I’ll be waitin’ up for heaven
Countin’ every mile of railroad track
That takes me back
Never thought my heart could be so yearny
Why did I decide to roam?
Gonna take a sentimental journey
Sentimental journey home
Sentimental journey
Source: AZ Lyrics.
Abagond 
“Dubbed “The First Lady of Song,” Ella Fitzgerald was the most popular female jazz singer in the United States for more than half a century. In her lifetime, she won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 million albums.”
Doris Day was “swing” not jazz!
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My grandma LOVED Doris Day. I couldn’t help but like her music too, “Sentimental Journey” and ” Que Sera Sera” – “Whatever will be, will be”. Grandma had a beautiful voice and I learned to love listening to Ms. Day AND watch her movies with my grandmother.
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Where’s Doris Day’s “Requiescat in pace.”?
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@ gro jo
LOL. It was hard enough not quoting James Baldwin.
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Right, blame her for the sins of Hollywood and US culture.
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yes idk why a soothing melody perhaps? very nice
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