All My Tomorrows (song)

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"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
Studio Capitol Studios, Hollywood, California
Genre Ballad
Length3:13
Label Capitol
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]

Contents

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]

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  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.
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