The Best Is Yet To Come

Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh wrote The Best Is Yet To Come in 1959, and Frank Sinatra recorded it with Count Basie's orchestra in 1964 for It Might As Well Be Swing, arranged by Quincy Jones. It is a brash, swinging promise that the good part has not started yet, which is precisely what a couple wants to say on their wedding night. The pace is quick, so it suits couples who want to move rather than sway, and bands can stretch the ending for a flourish. Sinatra sang it at his last public performance in 1995, and the title was engraved on his original headstone near Palm Springs, California.