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Jay Livingston

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Jay Livingston · Arts & Literature

What

Songwriter (Que Sera, Sera)

When

1915, McDonald, Pennsylvania, USA — 2001, Los Angeles, California, USA

Where

United States

Biography

Jay Livingston is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Songwriter (Que Sera, Sera)

How & why

Jay Livingston was an American composer who, with lyricist Ray Evans, wrote a string of Academy Award-winning film songs, most famously 'Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)' for Hitchcock's 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'. Born Jacob Harold Levison in Pennsylvania to Jewish parents, he is buried under a headstone reading 'Que Será, Será'.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Music

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Songwriter (Que Sera, Sera)

1915

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Music