by Pa Rock
Poetry Appreciator
Singer and actress Doris Day passed away at her home in Carmel, California, earlier today. The effervescent Miss Day, who sang with several bands during the heyday of "Big Bands" and later starred in a raft of romantic film comedies from the 1950's and 1960's, was ninety-seven at the time of her death.
Doris Day was perhaps best known for her film pairings with Rock Hudson and for her signature song, "Que Sera, Sera." Another of her best loved songs was "Sentimental Journey" with Les Brown's band.
In addition to being a singer and film acresss, Doris Day was well known and respected for her animal rescue work.
In 1966 Doris Day starred in a comedy about the tour boat business that carried passengers from the California coast to Catalina Island. That movie, Glass Bottom Boat, featured a raft of stars at the time including Arthur Godfrey, Paul Lynde, Rod Taylor, Dom DeLuise, Dick Martin, Ellen Corby, and an uncredited Robert Vaughn. In it the 44-year-old actress played one of her last movie roles as the cheerful girl next door who could sing her way through any situtaiton.
I went to see Glass Bottom Boat not because I was an ardent Doris Day fan - I wasn't - but because I had heard through family stories that one of my grand-uncles (my paternal grandmother's brother), Earl Nutt, had made his personal fortune through owning and operating glass bottom boats between the California coast and Catalina. I didn't learn anything about Uncle Earl from the film, but I did get some sense of what his business might have been like.
Today's poetry selection is the lyrics to the "Glass Bottom Boat," the theme song of the film. Since I wrote about fish in this space yesterday, and in particular one evil old blowfish, I thought it was very apropos to find a piece that mentions blowfish again today.
With best wishes for a peaceful repose to Doris Day and thoughts of sympathy for her loved ones, here is a happy memory from her singing and film career,
The Glass Bottom Boat
by Joe Lubin
Poetry Appreciator
Singer and actress Doris Day passed away at her home in Carmel, California, earlier today. The effervescent Miss Day, who sang with several bands during the heyday of "Big Bands" and later starred in a raft of romantic film comedies from the 1950's and 1960's, was ninety-seven at the time of her death.
Doris Day was perhaps best known for her film pairings with Rock Hudson and for her signature song, "Que Sera, Sera." Another of her best loved songs was "Sentimental Journey" with Les Brown's band.
In addition to being a singer and film acresss, Doris Day was well known and respected for her animal rescue work.
In 1966 Doris Day starred in a comedy about the tour boat business that carried passengers from the California coast to Catalina Island. That movie, Glass Bottom Boat, featured a raft of stars at the time including Arthur Godfrey, Paul Lynde, Rod Taylor, Dom DeLuise, Dick Martin, Ellen Corby, and an uncredited Robert Vaughn. In it the 44-year-old actress played one of her last movie roles as the cheerful girl next door who could sing her way through any situtaiton.
I went to see Glass Bottom Boat not because I was an ardent Doris Day fan - I wasn't - but because I had heard through family stories that one of my grand-uncles (my paternal grandmother's brother), Earl Nutt, had made his personal fortune through owning and operating glass bottom boats between the California coast and Catalina. I didn't learn anything about Uncle Earl from the film, but I did get some sense of what his business might have been like.
Today's poetry selection is the lyrics to the "Glass Bottom Boat," the theme song of the film. Since I wrote about fish in this space yesterday, and in particular one evil old blowfish, I thought it was very apropos to find a piece that mentions blowfish again today.
With best wishes for a peaceful repose to Doris Day and thoughts of sympathy for her loved ones, here is a happy memory from her singing and film career,
The Glass Bottom Boat
by Joe Lubin
All aboard, all aboard
On the glass bottom boat
It's the greatest show that was ever afloat
Take a ride on the tide with the guide and see
The way out wonders of the deep blue sea
The deep blue sea, the deep blue sea
There's a lot to see, in the deep blue sea
The sailfish sail and the blowfish blow
Cockles & mussels alive-alive-o
The hermit crab, he lives alone
You can't even get him on the telephone
The halibut's eyes turn up and in
He don't know where he's going, but he knows where he's been
The deep blue sea, the deep blue sea
There's a lot to see in the deep blue sea
The glass bottom boat, you will agree
Can show you the magic of the deep blue sea
Spiney crabs and white fish too
Will all be there, what a hullabaloo
With so many fish upon the sea
There's hardly room for a fat sardine
The deep blue sea, the deap blue sea
There's a lot goin' on in the deep blue sea
Oh life on the glass bottom boat is great
(I'm the captain) You could use a mate
Now the turtle is slow, but not so dumb
He has his own condominium
A bluebird oyster was caught with "foyle"
He "swoyre" he didn't even know the "goyle"
The deep blue sea, the deep blue sea
There's a lot to see in the deep blue sea
The glass bottom boat, you will agree
Can show you the magic of the deep blue sea
The flyin' fish was an awful ham
Made a three-point landing in a fryin' pan
The porpoise has the most hutzpah
But the whales are ones with the built-in showers
Starfish, starfish, two-pence all
Abelone in the casserole
Winding, binding, joining up
Is growing, growing, growing up
Ahhh...
On the glass bottom boat
It's the greatest show that was ever afloat
Take a ride on the tide with the guide and see
The way out wonders of the deep blue sea
The deep blue sea, the deep blue sea
There's a lot to see, in the deep blue sea
The sailfish sail and the blowfish blow
Cockles & mussels alive-alive-o
The hermit crab, he lives alone
You can't even get him on the telephone
The halibut's eyes turn up and in
He don't know where he's going, but he knows where he's been
The deep blue sea, the deep blue sea
There's a lot to see in the deep blue sea
The glass bottom boat, you will agree
Can show you the magic of the deep blue sea
Spiney crabs and white fish too
Will all be there, what a hullabaloo
With so many fish upon the sea
There's hardly room for a fat sardine
The deep blue sea, the deap blue sea
There's a lot goin' on in the deep blue sea
Oh life on the glass bottom boat is great
(I'm the captain) You could use a mate
Now the turtle is slow, but not so dumb
He has his own condominium
A bluebird oyster was caught with "foyle"
He "swoyre" he didn't even know the "goyle"
The deep blue sea, the deep blue sea
There's a lot to see in the deep blue sea
The glass bottom boat, you will agree
Can show you the magic of the deep blue sea
The flyin' fish was an awful ham
Made a three-point landing in a fryin' pan
The porpoise has the most hutzpah
But the whales are ones with the built-in showers
Starfish, starfish, two-pence all
Abelone in the casserole
Winding, binding, joining up
Is growing, growing, growing up
Ahhh...
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