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"Que Será, Será (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)" is a song written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans and first published in 1955. Doris Day introduced it in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), singing it as a cue to their onscreen kidnapped son. The three verses of the song progress through the life of the narratorfrom childhood, through young adulthood and falling in love, to parenthoodand each asks "What will I be?" or "What lies ahead?" The chorus repeats the answer: "What will be, will be."
Day's recording of the song for Columbia Records made it to number two on the Billboard Top 100 char and number one in the UK Singles Chart. It came to be known as Day's signature song. The song in The Man Who Knew Too Much received the 1956 Academy Award for Best Original Song. It was the third Oscar in this category for Livingston and Evans, who previously won in 1948 and 1950. In 2004 it finished at number 48 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema. In 2012, the 1956 recording by Doris Day on Columbia Records was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
It was a number-one hit in Australia for pop singer Normie Rowe in September 1965.
The song popularized the title expression "que sera, sera" to express "cheerful fatalism", though its use in English dates back to at least the 16th century. The phrase is evidently a word-for-word mistranslation of the English "What will be will be", as in Spanish, it would be "lo que será, será".
Well, this arrangement for a brass quintet is expected to get you going. Enjoy!
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