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What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?

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"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 Goldstein & Heitor Pereira won the Grammy for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s): "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" (Chris Botti & Sting) from Botti's album To Love Again - The Duets.

  •   NPR interview with the Bergmans about song (10:12)
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