WHATEVER WILL BE, WILL BE
Scarlotti
FAME inductees: Doris Day's WHATEVER WILL BE, WILL BE (QUE SERA, SERA).
The song was written by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston, having been
inspired by a phrase in the Ava Gardner film, THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA,
where the character played by Rossano Brazzi had the family motto "Che
Sera, Sera." Evans and Livingston switched the Italian "Che" to
"Que," changing the language from Italian to Spanish (because Spanish
was more widely spoken in the US).
WHATEVER WILL BE, WILL BE (QUE SERA, SERA) was written for Alfred
Hitchcock's remake of his own British thriller from 1934, THE MAN WHO
KNEW TOO MUCH. Doris Day and James Stewart starred. Hitchcock
didn't normally use music in his films, but Paramount Pictures (the
film's producers) felt that Doris Day's fans would be expecting to
hear her sing.
"Que sera, sera" means "What will be, will be." Normally, QUE
SERA, SERA would have been the song's official title, but as the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences only considered
English-titled songs for Oscars, the songwriters were asked to release
it under it's English translation.
Surprisingly, Doris Day originally didn't want to record it, as she
believed it to be "a kiddie song." WHATEVER WILL BE, WILL BE charted
at #2 in 1956, and became the biggest hit of Doris' career. And,
thanks in part to its title change, it won the Academy Award for Best
Song.
Doris seems to have warmed up to the song after that, as it appears in
two more of her films (PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISIES, 1960, and THE
GLASS BOTTOM BOAT, 1966) and became the theme song of television
series.
The following year, Livingston and Evans wrote another of our 2005 Hall
of Fame inducted songs, Debbie Reynolds' TAMMY.
And, of special interest to Disco Chuck Rogan: Kim Wilde sang the
WHATEVER WILL BE, WILL BE on the UK TV program CELEBRITY STARS IN THEIR
EYES, in 2002. She was dressed up to look like Doris Day.
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Meanwhile, Disco Chuck sat at home, dressed up as Doris Day and whacked his
puny little tack.