The Deadwood Stage (Whip-Crack-Away!)

"The Deadwood Stage (Whip-Crack-Away!)" is a song in the 1953 film Calamity Jane, written by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster, and performed by Doris Day.^[1] It was also used in the London stage show Calamity Jane in 2003^[2] and the musical based on Doris Day's greatest hits, A Sentimental Journey.^[3]

The song's opening lines are:

Oh! The Deadwood Stage is a-rollin' on over the plains,

with the curtains flappin' and the driver slappin' the reins.

Beautiful sky! A wonderful day!

Whip crack-away!, Whip crack-away!, Whip crack-away!

It goes on to contain a macabre line about Wild Bill Hickok, "on his gun there's more than twenty-seven notches".^[4]

In 2010, Australian singer Melinda Schneider recorded the song for her Doris Day tribute album Melinda Does Doris.

References

↑ Tom Santopietro (2008), Considering Doris Day, p. 77
↑ Lizzie Loveridge, Calamity Jane, Curtain Up
↑ Alvin Rakoff gets sentimental over Doris Day, The Daily Telegraph, 13 Feb 2009
↑ Alan Clayson (1997), Death discs: an account of fatality in the popular song, p. 42

Doris Day

Solo albums	You're My Thrill (1949) Young Man with a Horn (1950) Tea for Two (1950) Lullaby of Broadway (1951) On Moonlight Bay (1951) I'll See You in My Dreams (1951) By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953) Calamity Jane (1953) Young at Heart (1954) Love Me or Leave Me (1955) Day Dreams (1955) Day by Day (1956) The Pajama Game (1957) Day by Night (1957) Hooray for Hollywood (1958; 1959) Cuttin' Capers (1959) What Every Girl Should Know (1960) Show Time (1960) Bright and Shiny (1961) I Have Dreamed (1961) Duet (1962) You'll Never Walk Alone (1962) Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962) Annie Get Your Gun (1963) Love Him (1963) The Doris Day Christmas Album (1964) With a Smile and a Song (1964) Latin for Lovers (1965) Doris Day's Sentimental Journey (1965) The Love Album (1994) My Heart (2011)

Singles	"Again" "Ain't We Got Fun?" "Any Way the Wind Blows" "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" "Confess" "The Deadwood Stage (Whip-Crack-Away!)" "Everybody Loves a Lover" "If I Give My Heart to You" "If You Were the Only Girl (In the World)" "It's Magic" "Love Somebody" "Lullaby of Broadway" "Move Over Darling" "My Darling, My Darling" "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time" "My Love and Devotion" "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)" "Secret Love" "Sentimental Journey" "Thoughtless" "(Why Did I Tell You I Was Going To) Shanghai" "Sugar Bush" "You Should Have Told Me"

Related	Discography Filmography Doris Day Animal League Doris Day Show episodes

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