“Que Sera Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)” – Doris Day performing the song in the 1956 film The Man Who Knew Too Much
Single by Doris Day
B-side “I’ve Gotta Sing Away These Blues”
Released May 21, 1956
Label Columbia
Composer Jay Livingston
Lyricist Ray Evans
Charted No.2 in US
“Que Será, Será (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)”[a] 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.[4] The three verses of the song progress through the life of the narrator—from childhood, through young adulthood and falling in love, to parenthood—and each asks “What will I be?” or “What lies ahead?” The chorus repeats the answer: “What will be, will be.”
