{"id":7145,"date":"2009-10-05T11:17:16","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T18:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=7145"},"modified":"2009-10-05T11:17:16","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T18:17:16","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-doris-day-ashtray-with-title-printed-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-doris-day-ashtray-with-title-printed-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis&#8217; Kitsch O&#8217; The Day &#8211; Doris Day Ashtray With Title Printed Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7149\" title=\"doris-day-ashtray_4947\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/doris-day-ashtray_4947.jpg\" alt=\"doris-day-ashtray_4947\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/doris-day-ashtray_4947.jpg 500w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/doris-day-ashtray_4947-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>\n<p>This promotional ashtray was put out by Columbia Records in 1956 for their big star, Doris Day, and her big hit, &#8220;Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)&#8221;. It has an exalted place in my Kitsch kollection because the title is printed backwards: &#8220;Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)&#8221;. Whether the record sharks felt the foreign language was above the audience&#8217;s head or the manufacturer, Ceramicraft, goofed remains something only Doris or her dogs might know the answer to.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7151\" title=\"doris-day-ashtray_4965\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/doris-day-ashtray_4965.jpg\" alt=\"doris-day-ashtray_4965\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/doris-day-ashtray_4965.jpg 500w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/doris-day-ashtray_4965-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 280px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">This ashtray was one of the first things I found when I first started seriously collecting in the early 1970&#8217;s and I decided to start collecting pop music memorabilia as a result of finding it. It came as a set with &#8220;Sixteen Tons&#8221; by Tennessee Ernie Ford.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 280px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">I love this ashtray not only for the Kitsch title scramble but for the sentimental fact that my first job out of college was at Columbia Records, though long after Doris&#8217;s day had passed.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>This ashtray was one of the first things I found when I first started seriously collecting in the early 1970&#8217;s and I decided to start collecting pop music memorabilia as a result of finding it. It came as a set with &#8220;Sixteen Tons&#8221; by Tennessee Ernie Ford.<\/p>\n<p>I love this ashtray not only for the Kitsch title scramble but for the sentimental fact that my first job out of college was at Columbia Records, though long after Doris&#8217;s day had passed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7153\" title=\"doris-day-ashtray_4946\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/doris-day-ashtray_4946.jpg\" alt=\"doris-day-ashtray_4946\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/doris-day-ashtray_4946.jpg 450w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/doris-day-ashtray_4946-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7165\" title=\"doris-day-ashtray_4963\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/doris-day-ashtray_49631.jpg\" alt=\"doris-day-ashtray_4963\" width=\"450\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/doris-day-ashtray_49631.jpg 450w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/doris-day-ashtray_49631-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This promotional ashtray was put out by Columbia Records in 1956 for their big star, Doris Day, and her big hit, &#8220;Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)&#8221;. It has an exalted place in my Kitsch kollection because the title is printed backwards: &#8220;Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)&#8221;. Whether the record &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-doris-day-ashtray-with-title-printed-wrong\/\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[317,463,413,181,87,193,167,13],"tags":[61,673,675,3232,3245],"class_list":["post-7145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-bad-translations","category-celebrity","category-furniture-and-housewares","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-memorabilia","category-music","tag-allee-willis","tag-doris-day-ashtray","tag-doris-day-columbia","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}