What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?
What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? is a song by Michel Legrand (music), Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman (lyrics), released in 1969.
background
Legrand, Bergman and Bergman wrote the song for the film Happy Ending for a Marriage (Original Title: The Happy Ending , 1969), directed by Richard Brooks , with Jean Simmons and John Forsythe in the lead roles. In the film, the song is presented by Michael Dees.
In the lyrics of the song, the singer thinks about his lover (s); he wishes to see his face in all facets of light, including those of darkness. The singer asks what the other will do with the rest of his life; he only had one request: to share this time with him.
Awards
The song received an Oscar nomination for Best Song in 1970 , as well as a Golden Globe nomination. In 1973 What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? Received the Grammy Award in the category Best Instrumental Arrangement with Vocal Accompaniment in the version by Sarah Vaughan and the arrangement by Michel Legrand. Billy Childs , Gil Goldstein and Heitor Pereira won the same category at the 2006 Grammy Awards with a version interpreted by Chris Botti and Sting .
Cover versions and alternative titles
In 1970 the song was recorded in numerous cover versions, including a. by Peggy Lee , Bill Evans ( Montreux II ), Jimmy Smith, and Stan Kenton ; Tom Lord lists 312 versions in the field of jazz alone . In the following years, the film song was also known through the recordings of Frank Sinatra , Sacha Distel (Warner 8020), Shirley Bassey ( Something ), Barbra Streisand (Columbia 4-45944), Gene Ammons , Oscar Peterson and Rita Reys .
The 1969 Legrand / Bergman film song should not be confused with the song of the same name by Burton Lane and Ted Koehler , which Jack Carson and Jane Wyman (accompanied by the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra ) sang in the film Hollywood Canteen (1944). Another song of this title came from Henry H. Tobias (music) and Charlie Tobias (lyrics); it was recorded by Max Rumpf (1938) and Kurt Hohenberger in 1939 under the German title Was ist das Ende vom Lied (Telefunken A 2839).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life: Lyrics at MetroLyrics
- ^ The 1970 Oscars in the Internet Movie Data Base
- ^ Past Winners Search on grammy.com
- ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 23, 2014)
- ^ William H. Young, Nancy K. Young: Music of the World War II Era . 2008 - page 230
- ↑ Joyce Breach: Odds and Ends at Allmusic (English)
- ^ Library of Congress. Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions, Part 3, Volume 33, Issue 1 , United States Government Printing Office , 1938