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Day by Night

album by Doris Day

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ5242903 ↗
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Day by Night was a Doris Day album released on November 11, 1957 by Columbia Records, It was released in two versions, catalog number CL-1053 (Mono) and CS-8089 (Stereo), though the stereo version was only released in 1959. It was a follow-up to her extremely successful album, Day by Day, released the previous year.

The album was combined with Day's 1956 album, Day by Day, on a compact disc, issued on November 14, 2000 by Collectables Records.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Day by Night” as album by Doris Day. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Night, album and Doris.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1957, 1053, 1959, 1956—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1957-11-11. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Night, album and Doris providing the first useful test.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 1, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5242903. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1957, 1053, 1959 and 1956.

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This entry incorporates text from “Day by Night” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.