QUE SERA, SERA
(Whatever Will Be, Will Be)
Academy Award winner (1956). A song specifically designed to
be sung to a child, with child joining in on the refrain.
From the Paramount Pictures, Alfred Hitchcock film THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH.

 

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QUE SERA SERA....There was a Livingston & Evans song in "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (directed in 1955 by Alfred Hitchcock) that Doris Day really liked and which she recorded ("We’ll Love Again"). However, she refused to record QUE SERA SERA because she thought it was a children’s song. But this was the important song in the picture, so Paramount insisted that she record it. Paul Weston, who was present at the recording session, said that she knocked it off in one take and said, "That’s the last time you’ll ever hear that song".

By the way, Jay and Ray won their third Oscar for QUE SERA SERA.

Jay Livingston, Ray Evans
COPYRIGHT 1955
Jay Livingston Music,Inc. (ASCAP)
St. Angelo Music (ASCAP)
Copyright Renewed

RECORDING HISTORY

Doris Day, with Frank DeVol & His Orchestra, Columbia Records single # 4-40704, #RHCO 33718 (female vocal)
Sly and The Family Stone, ANTHOLOGY, Epic Records # EGK 37071 (male vocal)
Holly Cole Trio, DON’T SMOKE IN BED, Manhattan Records # CDP 0777 7 81198 2 1
(female vocal)
Mary Hopkin, THOSE WERE THE DAYS, produced by Paul McCartney, Apple Records single # 1823 (female vocal)
Natalie Cole, NATALIE LIVE!, Capitol Records # SKBL-11709 (female vocal)
Chet Atkins, THE BEST OF CHET ATKINS Vol. 2, RCA Victor Records #
LPM-3558 (instrumental)
Henry Mancini, PRESENTS THE ACADEMY AWARD SONGS 31 “OSCAR” WINNERS, RCA Victor Records # LPM-6013 (instrumental)
Normie Rowe, Sunshine Records single # QK-1103 (Australian male vocal)
The High Keyes, Atco Records single # 45-6268 (male vocal)
The Raes, A&M Records single # AM 446 (Canadian male vocal)
Peter Kraus (mit Connie Francis), (German) ROCK ‘N’ ROLL SCHMUSE PARTY, Folge 2 Records # 12-472786-10 (Sony Music Germany, male German vocal, female English vocal)
Jacqueline Francois, with Michel Legrand and His Orchestra, (French), Phillips single # N 372.390F (female French vocal)
Eddy Howard, Mercury Records single # 70881x45 (male vocal)
Ray Ellis and His Orchestra, LA DOLCE VITA AND OTHER GREAT MOTION PICTURE THEMES, RCA-Victor Records # LSP-2410 (instrumental)
The Red Army Choir, (with John Lennon’ WAR IS OVER) (chorus)
Carla Bardo, Telstar Records single # TS 14692 (female Dutch vocal)
The Shirelles, Scepter Records single # 12150
Emilio Pericoli, Italian Version

FILM HISTORY

Academy Award Winning Song From the Universal International Picture THE MAN
WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, 1956, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

MISCELLANEOUS HISTORY

Academy Award Winning Song From the Universal International Picture THE MAN
WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, 1956, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

SONG CATEGORIES

Production Numbers, Songs For Or About Children, Songs Of Philosophy, Waltzes


Production Numbers, Christmas Songs, Duets, Waltzes