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The Best Is Yet to Come

"The Best Is Yet to Come" is a 1959 song composed by Cy Coleman to lyrics by Carolyn Leigh.[1] It is associated with Frank Sinatra, who recorded it on his 1964 album It Might as Well Be Swing accompanied by Count Basie under the direction of Quincy Jones. It was the last song Sinatra sang in public,[2] on February 25, 1995, and the words "The Best is Yet to Come" are etched on Sinatra's tombstone.[3] Although Sinatra made it popular, the song was written for and introduced by Tony Bennett.[4]

For other uses, see The Best Is Yet to Come (disambiguation).

"The Best Is Yet to Come"

1959 by Edwin H. Morris & Co.

Jazz

Cy Coleman

Carolyn Leigh

August 1964 (1964-08)

June 9, 1964

3:10

Reprise

Cy Coleman

Carolyn Leigh

Sonny Burke

Before it was recorded by Sinatra, the song's debut was sung and played by Cy Coleman on Hugh Hefner's Playboy's Penthouse variety show.

(I Left My Heart in San Francisco) (1962)[5]

Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett and (Duets: An American Classic) (2006)[6]

Diana Krall

Tony Bennett and Diana Krall in Tony Bennett: An American Classic. Documentary directed by (2006)

Rob Marshall

(Call Me Irresponsible) (2007)[7]

Michael Bublé

(This One's from the Heart) (1999)[8]

James Darren

(May I Come In?) (1964)[9]

Blossom Dearie

(Back in Town) (2006)[10]

Matt Dusk

(Triplicate) (2017)[11]

Bob Dylan

(The Best Is Yet to Come) (1982)[12]

Ella Fitzgerald

(The Boy Next Door) (2003)[13]

Stacey Kent

(ClassiKhan) (2004)[14]

Chaka Khan

(Sugar 'N' Spice) (1962)[15]

Peggy Lee

(In Tribute) (1992)[16]

Diane Schuur

(It Might As Well Be Swing) (1964)[17]

Frank Sinatra

(Swing: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (1999)[18]

Lisa Stansfield

(Yesterday's Love Songs/Today's Blues) (1963)

Nancy Wilson

- Come Rain or Come Shine (1999)

Bobby Caldwell

(You're Mine You) (1962)[19]

Sarah Vaughan

In February 1999, James Darren and sang the song in the final scene of "Badda-Bing Badda-Bang", a seventh-season episode of the syndicated science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.[20]

Avery Brooks

The song was played as a wake-up call for the crew of on May 22, 1969. The historic day marked the first time that the Lunar Module flew solo in lunar orbit as it made man's closest approach to the lunar surface to date.[21]

Apollo 10