| All My Tomorrows | |
| Type: | Single |
| Artist: | Frank Sinatra |
| Album: | All the Way |
| A-Side: | High Hopes |
| Released: | June 5, 1959 (single); 1961 (album version) |
| Recorded: | December 29, 1958 |
| Studio: | Capitol Studios, Hollywood, California |
| Genre: | Ballad |
| Length: | 3:13 |
| Label: | Capitol |
| Lyricist: | Sammy Cahn[1] |
| Composer: | Jimmy Van Heusen |
| Prev Title: | French Foreign Legion |
| Prev Title2: | Time After Time |
| Prev Year: | 1959 |
| High Hopes | |
| Title2: | All My Tomorrows |
| Year: | 1959 |
| Next Title: | Talk to Me |
| Next Title2: | They Came to Cordura |
| Next Year: | 1959 |
"All My Tomorrows" is a 1959 ballad with lyrics by Sammy Cahn and music by Jimmy van Heusen.[2] [3] The song was written for Frank Sinatra.[4] It was introduced in the film A Hole in the Head where Sinatra sings it in the opening credits.[5]
Sinatra later featured "All My Tomorrows" on his 1961 album All the Way. Sinatra re-recorded it for his 1969 album My Way, in a new arrangement which writer Charles L. Granata considered superior to the original,[6] and which Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic called "lush and aching".[7] Rolling Stone described the song as "the poignant monologue of a man determined to turn his life around".[8] This version also contains a melody from Sinatra's 1966 hit "Strangers In The Night."
Sinatra released the song on the reverse side of a single with "High Hopes" in 1959.[9] The song was named one of Billboard Spotlight Winners of the Week for May 18, 1959.[10]
Bob Dylan sang the song in concert at the Pine Knob Music Theatre in Clarkston, Michigan on June 30, 1986.[11] [12] Christine Andreas released a version of the song in 1998 on her album Love Is Good.[13] In 2013 Canadian singer Martha Brooks issued a jazz CD featuring 11 Cahn tunes titled All My Tomorrows: The Music of Sammy Cahn.[14] The song has been covered by numerous other artists, including Tony Bennett, Mavis Rivers, Pia Zadora, Shirley Horn, Crystal Gayle, Glen Campbell, Carol Kidd, and Michael Feinstein.[15] In 1994, Grover Washington Jr. recorded the song for his album All My Tomorrows and named the album after it.[16]