Penned by successful songwriting partners Ray Evans and Jay Livingston, Day sang "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)" in Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 remake of his 1934 film The Man Who Knew Too Much. The song serves a crucial purpose in the movie: Day plays a retired singer who gets mixed up in an assassination plot along with her husband (James Stewart) and little boy; at one point, Day uses the song to rescue her son from an attempted kidnapping.
"We got a call from Alfred Hitchcock," Livingston told Paul Zollo in an interview featured in the book Songwriters on Songwriting.
"Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)" was a major success both commercially and critically. Not only did it win the Oscar for Best Original Song, but it also peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the U.K. Singles Chart.
Doris Day didn't originally want to record 'Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)'
"She didn't want to record it but the studio pressured her," Livingston said. "She did it in one take and said, 'That's the last you're going to hear of this song.'"
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