Hooray for Hollywood (album)


Hooray for Hollywood is a two-album set recorded by Doris Day, released by Columbia Records. Frank De Vol arranged and conducted the orchestra for the recordings. All but one of the songs were recorded between October and November 1957. The collection was to originally feature Day's recording of "A Very Precious Love", but this was released as a single and replaced on the album with the 1952 re-recording of "It's Magic".
The two-album set was released by Columbia under the catalog number C2L-5 on February 24, 1958. It was subsequently reissued as two separate volumes in both monaural and stereophonic versions as indicated below.

Record 1

The first record was reissued by Columbia as Hooray For Hollywood - Vol. 1 on October 20, 1958. The catalog number of the mono version was CL-1128, and of the stereo version, CS-8066. On April 23, 2007 it was released, together with You'll Never Walk Alone, as a compact disc by Sony BMG Music Entertainment.

Track listing

  1. "Hooray for Hollywood" - 2:31
  2. "Cheek to Cheek" - 2:42
  3. "It's Easy to Remember" - 3:02
  4. "The Way You Look Tonight" - 3:24
  5. "I'll Remember April"
  6. "Blues in the Night" - 3:46
  7. "Over the Rainbow" - 3:37
  8. "Our Love Is Here to Stay" - 3:47
  9. "In the Still of the Night"
  10. "Night and Day"
  11. "You'd Be So Easy to Love"
  12. "I Had the Craziest Dream"

    Record 2

The second record was reissued by Columbia as Hooray For Hollywood - Vol. 2 on January 19, 1959. The catalog number of the mono version was CL-1129, and of the stereo version, CS-8067.

Track listing

  1. "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" - 3:19
  2. "Soon" - 3:00
  3. "That Old Black Magic" - 2:42
  4. "You'll Never Know"
  5. "A Foggy Day" - 3:30
  6. "It's Magic"
  7. "It Might as Well Be Spring" - 3:39
  8. "Nice Work if You Can Get It" - 2:52
  9. "Three Coins in the Fountain" - 3:17
  10. "Let's Face the Music and Dance" - 3:11
  11. "Pennies from Heaven" - 3:32
  12. "Oh, But I Do"
The version of "It's Magic" on this album was recorded a number of years previous to this project and only exists as a mono mix.

Historical note

Doris Day's 1958 recording of "Hooray for Hollywood" is part of radio broadcast history. On November 22, 1963, shortwave radio station WRUL was playing Day's recording of the song when the ABC Radio network interrupted the song at 1:36:50 PM EST to issue the first broadcast bulletin concerning the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.