All My Tomorrows (song)

"All My Tomorrows"
Single by Frank Sinatra
from the album All the Way
A-side"High Hopes"
ReleasedJune 5, 1959 (single);
1961 (album version)
RecordedDecember 29, 1958
StudioCapitol Studios, Hollywood, California
GenreBallad
Length3:13
LabelCapitol
Composer(s)Jimmy Van Heusen[1]
Lyricist(s)Sammy Cahn[1]
Frank Sinatra singles chronology
"French Foreign Legion" / "Time After Time"
(1959) 		"High Hopes" / "All My Tomorrows"
(1959) 		"Talk to Me" / "They Came to Cordura"
(1959)

"All My Tomorrows" is a 1959 ballad with lyrics by Sammy Cahn and music by Jimmy van Heusen.[2][3] The song was written for Frank Sinatra.[4] It was introduced in the film A Hole in the Head where Sinatra sings it in the opening credits.[5]

Sinatra later featured "All My Tomorrows" on his 1961 album All the Way. Sinatra re-recorded it for his 1969 album My Way, in a new arrangement which writer Charles L. Granata considered superior to the original,[6] and which Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic called "lush and aching".[7] Rolling Stone described the song as "the poignant monologue of a man determined to turn his life around".[8] This version also contains a melody from Sinatra's 1966 hit "Strangers In The Night."

Release history

Sinatra released the song on the reverse side of a single with "High Hopes" in 1959.[9] The song was named one of Billboard's Spotlight Winners of the Week for May 18, 1959.[10]

Covers

Bob Dylan sang the song in concert at the Pine Knob Music Theatre in Clarkston, Michigan on June 30, 1986.[11][12] Christine Andreas released a version of the song in 1998 on her album Love Is Good.[13] In 2013 Canadian singer Martha Brooks issued a jazz CD featuring 11 Cahn tunes titled All My Tomorrows: The Music of Sammy Cahn.[14] The song has been covered by numerous other artists, including Tony Bennett, Mavis Rivers, Pia Zadora, Shirley Horn, Crystal Gayle, Glen Campbell, Carol Kidd, and Michael Feinstein.[15] In 1994, Grover Washington Jr. recorded the song for his album All My Tomorrows and named the album after it.[16]

References

  1. ^ a b Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  2. ^ Jenness, David; Velsey, Donald (4 February 2014). Classic American Popular Song: The Second Half-Century, 1950-2000. Routledge. p. 101. ISBN 978-1-136-79745-3.
  3. ^ Dietz, Dan (2010). Off Broadway Musicals, 1910–2007: Casts, Credits, Songs, Critical Reception and Performance Data of More Than 1,800 Shows. McFarland. p. 340. ISBN 978-0786457311.
  4. ^ DuBoff, Rob, ed. (1996). The Swing Era – 1936-1947 (Songbook). Hal Leonard. p. 254. ISBN 9781476804248.
  5. ^ Santopietro, Tom (2009). Sinatra in Hollywood. Macmillan. p. 391. ISBN 9781429964746.
  6. ^ Granata, Charles L. (1 October 2003). Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording. Chicago Review Press. p. 190. ISBN 978-1-61374-281-5.
  7. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Frank Sinatra – My Way". AllMusic. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  8. ^ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian David (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon and Schuster. p. 63. ISBN 978-0-7432-0169-8.
  9. ^ "Today's Top Talent". Billboard. 12 October 1959. p. 9.
  10. ^ "The Billboard Spotlight Winners of the Week". Billboard. 18 May 1959. p. 44.
  11. ^ "Setlists that contain All My Tomorrows". bobdylan.com. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  12. ^ Bonner, Michael (14 May 2014). "Bob Dylan's new album: let the wild speculation begin!". Uncut. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  13. ^ Verna, Paul, ed. (February 21, 1998). "Reviews&Previews: Albums". Billboard. p. 63.
  14. ^ Smith, Chris (9 December 2013). "Bird's Turbulent Flight Begins in Bio". Winnipeg Free Press. Archived from the original on 17 March 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  15. ^ "All My Tomorrows by Frank Sinatra". secondhandsongs.com. 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  16. ^ "Grover Washington, Jr. – All My Tomorrows". Discogs. 1994. Retrieved 29 December 2018.