But this was the important song in the picture, so Paramount insisted that she record it. However, she refused to record QUE SERA SERA because she thought it was a children’s song. Meanwhile, there was a Livingston & Evans song in “The Man Who Knew Too Much” that Doris Day really liked and which she recorded (“We’ll Love Again”). And he walked out and they didn’t see him again for years. When Jay played the completed song for Hitchcock, the director said, “Gentlemen, I told you I didn’t know what kind of song I want. The phrase is also “Que sera sera” in French, which may account for the song’s wide acceptance. Later, they changed the Italian “che” to the Spanish “que” because of so many Spanish-speaking people in the world. He told her that it was their family motto and meant “What will be, will be”.
It just so happened that Jay had seen a picture called “The Barefoot Contessa”, and at the end of the picture Rozzano Brazzi took Ava Gardner to his ancestral home in Italy, and carved in the stone was the legend CHE SERA SERA. Also, in the picture, I have it set up so that Doris sings to their little boy”. But Jimmy Stewart is a roving ambassador and it would be nice if the song had some foreign words in the title. He added, ”I don’t know what kind of song I want. He told Jay and Ray that he didn’t want a song, but, he said, Doris is a singer, and the studio wants a song for her.
Hitchcock didn’t want Doris Day, although he was very happy with her later. Livingston & Evans insist this is the only time an agent ever got them a job. Stewart’s agents, the omnipotent MCA, told Hitchcock he could have Stewart only if he took another client, Doris Day, and another of their clients, Livingston & Evans, to write a song for her. In 1955, Alfred Hitchcock was making a picture called, “The Man Who Knew Too Much” and wanted Jimmy Stewart for the lead.
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