Written by the award winning duo of Ray Evans and Jay Livingston the song Que Sera Sera was an extremely popular hit which sold millions of copies in the year it was released for a movie. The movie for which the song was made went by the name of “The Man Who Knew Too Much” and it was song that won the Academy Award under the category of Best Original Song in the same year that it was released. The song was sung by Doris Day during the suspense movie which Alfred Hitchcock remade twenty-two years after the first version of the movie was released in the annum 1934.
Doris sung Que Sera Sera on numerous occasions in the movie which made its entry in the Cannes Film Festival of the year as well. The movie was graced with an Oscar award for the performance of the song for which the lyrics were written by Evans while the music was composed by Livingston.
The words of the song portray a fatalistic approach to reality as this woman expresses how when she was young she would ask her mother what profession or lifestyle will she live when she grows older only to get the response from her mother than there really is no way to tell what will happen in the future with the words “whatever will be, will be.” The song Que Sera Sera made it to the Billboard Charts in America where it held second position for a significant amount of time and then in the later years it hit the charts in Great Britain as well between the years 1968 and 1973.
Que Sera Sera
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