What is considered Doris Day's signature song?

The 1956 song "Que Sera Sera" (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) came to be considered Doris Day's signature song. This is a song that she went on to sing it in later films and TV appearances. In the 1960 film "Please Don't Eat the Daisies", she sings a snippet of the song to her co-star, David Niven, who plays her husband.

This is a song that is normally sung in the first person by a woman in a reflective, pensive frame of mind. It has four verses denoting four phases of a lady's life in progressive order. She is a child, young adult, lover, and mother respectively.

During the late 1950s and early 1960s, it was a very popular song and pleased most audiences when featured in films or on TV. It was Doris Day who sang it in the film "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1956). In the film, it is sung twice in parts by Day who plays Josephine Conway a popular singer. It is an item that helps with the film's suspense. The film was directed by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock and was a revised version of a film, by the same name, made in 1934 by Hitchcock. The song "Que Sera Sera" written and composed by the American duo Jay Livingston and Ray Evans became an instant hit.

Day was a successful singer and actress who was one of the top stars of her day during the mid-20th century. She died of pneumonia in May 2019 at the age of 97. Many of her songs remain as perennial favorites and the widely-popular evergreen number "Que Sera Sera" will always be viewed by many as Day’s signature song.