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What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? (ver. 1) by Alan Bergman - Piano Sheets and Free Sheet Music

  
About the Song
"What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" is a song with lyrics written by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman and original music written by Michel Legrand for the 1969 film The Happy Ending and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song. Legrand won the 1973 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist for a version performed by Sarah Vaughan. More than thirty years later, Billy Childs, Gil Goldstein, and Heitor Pereira won the 2006 Grammy Award for the same category for a version performed by Chris Botti and Sting. Apart from the award winning versions, the song has been covered by many renowned artists including Julie Andrews, Maysa, Shirley Bassey, Bill Evans, Ferrante & Teicher, Peggy Lee, Johnny Mathis, Carmen McRae, Jaye P. Morgan, Joe Pass, Frank Sinatra, Dusty Springfield, Barbra Streisand, Rita Reys and Andy Williams. In 2006, Billy Childs, Gil.    Download this sheet!
About the Artist
Alan Bergman (born September 11, 1925) is a prolific American lyricist and songwriter. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he studied at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UCLA. His involvement in the entertainment industry began in the early 1950s as a director of children's television shows. He and his wife Marilyn Bergman, whom he married in 1958, were born in the same hospital and raised in the same Brooklyn neighborhood, but didn't meet until each had relocated to Los Angeles. Together they have written the music and lyrics for numerous television shows, films, and stage musicals. In 1983, the couple became the first songwriters ever to have written three of the five tunes nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song - "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" from Best Friends, "It Might Be You" from Tootsie (with Dave Grusin), and "If We Were in Love" from Yes, Giorgio (with John Williams). Bergman was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1980 and in 1995 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Berklee College of Music. He is a member of the board of The Streisand Foundation. Bergman and his wife's credits include: * Lyrics.
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