What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?
What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?
is the eighth studio album by the English rock band Echo& the Bunnymen.
The album saw the departure of bassist Les Pattinson from the group, partly due to disagreements with vocalist Ian McCulloch; McCulloch and the remaining band member, guitarist Will Sergeant, subsequently recorded the record with session musicians.
The London Metropolitan Orchestra provided backing music and the American alternative hip hop band Fun Lovin' Criminals appeared as guest musicians on two tracks.
The album was produced by Alan Douglas and Echo& the Bunnymen and it was recorded at various locations throughout England.
Feeling sidelined during the recording of the album, Sergeant described it as" probably the worst time in my whole life".
" What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?" was released on 16 April 1999 through London Records following the release of the first single from the album," Rust", the previous month.
One further single," Get in the Car", followed the album's release.
The album received mixed reviews from the music press, being described as both flawless and having no appeal.
The album was not as popular with the public as earlier releases from Echo& the Bunnymen; the album peaked at number twenty- one on the UK Albums Chart.
What Are You Going to Do to Help the Boys?
"What Are You Going to Do to Help the Boys?" is a World War I era song released in 1918.
Gus Kahn wrote the lyrics.
Egbert Van Alstyne composed the music.
It was published by Jerome H. Remick & Co. of Detroit, Michigan.
Artist E.E. Walton designed the sheet music cover.
It features Uncle Sam inside a red, white, and blue question mark.
He is holding his beard and looking down at liberty bonds.
To the left of this image it reads, "Buy a Liberty Bond!"
on some editions.
The song was written for both piano and voice.
The song is a call to action.
It encourages listeners to buy liberty bonds, especially if they are staying home while soldiers fight overseas.
The voice states that it doesn't matter one's age, where he is from, or who he is.
Uncle Sam expects everyone to help in the war effort.
The chorus is as follows:
The sheet music can be found at Pritzker Military Museum & Library.
What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?
" 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".
The song was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song but lost out to" Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head".
Alan Bergman would recall that after Michel Legrand had written eight melodies which were somehow not viable for the film, Marilyn Bergman suggested the opening line" What are you doing the rest of your life?", and Legrand then completed the song's melody based on that phrase.
Marilyn Bergman would later comment on the double meaning of the phrase" What are you doing the rest of your life?" within its parent film: as the romantic theme song's title the question overtly references the marriage proposal Mary Spencer( played by Jean Simmons) received and accepted sixteen years earlier but, as Mary's present- day angst becomes apparent," What are you doing the rest of your life?" is recast as a question Mary must ask herself.
" What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" was sung in" The Happy Ending" by Michael Dees whose version was included on the film's soundtrack album.
The first evident" outside" cover was by Barbra Streisand who recorded the song on 24 September 1969 in the first session for her intended album" The Singer", with the track having a single release 26 October 1969.
After two later sessions- in respectively March and April of 1970- Streisand had recorded a total of eight tracks toward" The Singer", only to have Clive Davis shelve the project in favor of an album which was soft rock rather than easy listening, with Streisand cutting the first tracks for what would be her 1971 album release" Stoney End" on 29 July 1970.
" What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" was utilized as the B-side of Streisand's# 1 hit" The Way We Were" released in 1973, and was included on the 1974 album release" The Way We Were".
Although the Streisand version drew no evident attention in its original single release," What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" did reach the Easy Listening Top 40 ranking in" Billboard"- with a# 40 peak- via a January 1970 recording by veteran vocalist Jaye P. Morgan, whose version served as the title cut for her first album release in eight years( and her last until 1976).
Also in 1970" What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" was recorded by Della Reese for her album" Right Now": the 9 November 1997 broadcast of the CBS series" Touched by an Angel" featured Reese's character; the angel Tess, singing the song in the guise of a supperclub singer ..
" What Are Doing the Rest of Your Life?" was also recorded by Dusty Springfield in 1970, in the July sessions at Trident Studios( Soho) for her" See All Her Faces" album, but despite Springfield having had a Top 40 hit with the Bergman's first Oscar- winning composition" The Windmills of Your Mind" her version of" What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" was cut from her upcoming album without being mixed, remaining" in the can" until 1994 when Philips Records put together the four volume box set" Dusty: The Legend Of Dusty Springfield" with a completed recording of" What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" being included on the disc devoted to" Rarities"( the track was in fact first released earlier in the year as a bonus on a CD single which paired Springfield's hits" Goin' Back" and" Son- of- a Preacher Man").
In 2006 Springfield's version of" What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" was featured in a 60- second commercial for diamonds- sponsored by the Diamond Trading Company- which aired on American television, in cinemas and online.
In 1972 Sarah Vaughan recorded" What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" for the album" Sarah Vaughan with Michel Legrand" on which Legrand acted as arranger and conductor.
The track would win Legrand the 1972 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist.
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 trumpeteer Chris Botti and vocalist Sting on Botti's 2005 album" To Love Again".
There is also a song called" What Are You Doin' the Rest of Your Life?" in the 1944 film" Hollywood Canteen", performed by Jack Carson and Jane Wyman with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra.
What Are You Doin' in My Life
What Are You Doin' in My Life may refer to:
Robert Gillespie
Robert James Gillespie( born 9 November 1933 in Lille, France) is a British actor, director and writer.
Notable acting credits include" Keep It in the Family"( 1980)," At the Earth's Core"( 1976) and" Force 10 from Navarone"( 1978).
More recently he appeared in Jimmy McGovern's" Broken" and Mike Leigh's film" Peterloo" about the Peterloo Massacre.
The first volume of his autobiography," Are You Going To Do That Little Jump?", was published in 2017.
Egbert Van Alstyne
Egbert Anson Van Alstyne (March 4, 1878 – July 9, 1951) was an American songwriter and pianist.
Van Alstyne was the composer of a number of popular and ragtime tunes of the early 20th century.
Rust (song)
" Rust" is a single by Echo& the Bunnymen which was released in March 1999.
It was the first single to be released from their 1999 album," What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?".
It reached number 22 on the UK Singles Chart and currently remains their last UK Top 40 hit.
Quo Vadis (disambiguation)
Quo vadis?
is a Latin phrase meaning "Where are you going?"
It may also refer to:
Alonso Mudarra
Alonso Mudarra( c. 1510 – April 1, 1580) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance, and also played the vihuela, a guitar- shaped string instrument.
He was an innovative composer of instrumental music as well as songs, and was the composer of the earliest surviving music for the guitar.
What Are You Waiting For?
What Are You Waiting For? may refer to:

Question: What nationality is the composer of song What Are You Going To Do To Help The Boys??
Answer: American