The Best Is Yet to Come

"The Best Is Yet to Come"
Song
Published1959 by Edwin H. Morris & Co.
GenreJazz
Composer(s)Cy Coleman
Lyricist(s)Carolyn Leigh
"The Best Is Yet to Come"
Song by Frank Sinatra
from the album It Might as Well Be Swing
ReleasedAugust 1964 (1964-08)
RecordedJune 9, 1964
Genre
Length3:10
LabelReprise
Composer(s)Cy Coleman
Lyricist(s)Carolyn Leigh
Producer(s)Sonny Burke
Frank Sinatra singles chronology
"I Wanna Be Around"
(1964)
"The Best Is Yet to Come"
(1964)
"The Good Life"
(1964)

"The Best Is Yet to Come" is a 1959 song composed by Cy Coleman to lyrics by Carolyn Leigh. 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, on February 25, 1995, and the words "The Best is Yet to Come" were etched on Sinatra's original tombstone until it was replaced in 2020 (for reasons never officially explained by the Sinatra family) with a new stone that reads "Sleep Warm, Poppa". Although Sinatra made it popular, the song was written for and introduced by Tony Bennett.

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.