Um…does anybody know anything about that song, or if there is sheet music for that song that you could play on whistle…one of my friends has said before that that song has special meaning to her, and I was going to try to record some songs onto a tape and send to her and would really like to find that song. I looked everywhere, and only found bits and pieces about it… All I could find were words and that Doris Day once recorded it.
Ned Flanders sang it on the Simpsons once, that’s about all I know… 
You can view the first two lines in manuscript on musicnotes.com but you’ll have to install their plug-in first (takes seconds). The idea is that you buy the music after…Can’t be more help.
Hi, Cranberry.
I can’t help you with the sheet music, except to say, “Good on ya, for rallying around a friend.”
Also, I noticed that you wrote:
“When you fail once, you’ve failed ten times in people’s eyes. When you fail twice, you’re good as dead.”
If I might, I’d like to post a few quotations to try to offer another perspective.
"Show me a millionaire, and I'll show you someone who's been broke at least three times."
"An aspiring young entrepeneur had occasion to hear a speech by a highly successful person she greatly admired. After the speech, by luck she had a chance to speak with the successful person. She asked if she might ask a couple of questions, to which the successful person said, “Sure. Ask away.”
“How did you get to be so successful?” she asked.
“By making the right decisions.”
“How do you know how to make the right decisions?” she asked.
“Experience.”
“How did you get the experience?” she asked.
“By making the wrong decisions.”
There's a legitimate point of view where there's no such thing as a failure or a mistake.
If anyone with a better grasp of history would care to chime in, I seem to recall that George Washington lost almost every battle he engaged in. The British were delighted when he was chosen to lead the American army, as he had failed to win any battles in the French and Indian War. However, even though he also lost most of the battles in the war for independence, he did succeed in winning the war.
It's also worth noting that Thomas Paine, whose writings were a (perhaps the) decisive factor in getting the colonists to rally for the war effort, was a misfit ne'er do well, unsuccessful at everything else he ever tried. And, in a very real way, we owe that misfit, ne'er do well "failure" our very existence as a nation.
And the story of Thomas Edison’s assistant, trying to find a suitable material for light bulb filaments. “Mr. Edison,” he complained, “we’ve failed. We have tried 50,000 different things to make light bulbs, and none of them has worked.” To which Mr. Edison replied, “That’s ridiculous. We haven’t failed. We have succeeded at identifying 50,000 things that don’t work!”
http://www.wilstar.com/midi/queserasera.htm
If you can learn by hearing, here is the tune
Cran: Doubtless you will get your answers from the vast Chifflandian database but I wanted to throw in a few facts for excess nyuks.
There is a Brazilian version of this song (O que sera), written by Chico Buarque, but with a much more serious tone (probly owing to their political history) and a different kind of harmonic progression. There is a very famous version sung by Chico and Milton Nascimento. I was surprised when I came across it. BTW, Chico Buarque is an awesome composer, poet and performer if you ever venture in another musical style.
Also, who can forget the incredibly lame Eddie Money song, called Baby Hold On to Me, in which he literally lifted the second and third lines from the Doris day song, no doubt in a chemically-induced stupor? After a super lame organ into it goes:
" Baby Hold On to Me, Whatever will be will be, the Future is Ours to see" and I think its has a grand lyrical climax of “Baby Hold On to Me.”
I never could figure out why he didnt get sued. Just for lameness alone but also for copyright infringement. Some pop things just make me cringe they are so bad. Hmmm… an idea for an OT thread…hmmm…
Hey Cranberry,
One day, I’ll be able to learn a song by ear, but until then, I need sheet music too.
When I want to learn a particular song, this is how I go about getting sheet music for it.
- Start with a midi of the song. Go to Google and type in your search query as
+“song name” +mid
and hit enter. This will usually give you a long list of sites only some of which actually have a midi of the song. Find one that does and copy it to your machine.
Here’s one site with Que Sara Sara:
http://wilstar.net/midi/queserasera.mid
- Import the midi into NoteWorthy Composer (http://www.noteworthysoftware.com). Noteworthy will give you several music staffs - one for each insturment in the midi composition. Find the one with the melody line and delete the rest (keep the very last line since that is where Noteworthy puts the tempo info). You can press F5 to play the entire composition or click on one staff an press Shift-F5 to play just that staff. Doing this allows you to find the melody line pretty easily.
Noteworthy is a shareware program that costs US$40 but the trial version is enough to do what you are looking to do. There are other programs out there that will work as well, but Noteworthy is the one I use.
That song was feature in a movie- of course I can’t remember it’s name-
I saw it when I was a kid waaay back when. I do remember that Doris Day sang it in the movie, heck, I even remember some of the lyrics…
If you happen to know the tune , just find it on the whistle and don’t worry about the written music.
I believe it was “The man who knew too much.” A Hitchcock remake of his own movie. She and her son sang it, and when he was kidnapped, she was able to find him using the song, he started singing with her.
Or, my favorite, “Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” I think Henry Ford said it.