We'll Be Together Again

"We'll Be Together Again" is a 1945 popular song composed by Carl T. Fischer, with lyrics by Frankie Laine.^[1]

Fischer was Laine's pianist and musical director when he composed the tune, and Laine was asked to write the lyrics for it. The Pied Pipers were the first to release the song, and as well as Laine, it has since been recorded by such notable vocalists as Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Rosemary Clooney, Lou Rawls and Tony Bennett.^[1]

• Stan Kenton – On AFRS: 1944–45 (vocal: Gene Howard)
• Ben Webster – Music for Loving (1954)
• Johnny Hartman - Songs from the Heart (1955)
• Gene Ammons - Jammin' with Gene (1956)
• Bing Crosby recorded the song in 1956^[2] for use on his radio show and it was subsequently included in the box set The Bing Crosby CBS Radio Recordings (1954–56) issued by Mosaic Records (catalog MD7-245) in 2009.^[3]
• Frank Sinatra – Songs for Swingin' Lovers! (1956)^[4]
• Randy Weston – Trio and Solo (1956)
• Ella Fitzgerald – Like Someone in Love (1957)
• Anita O'Day – Anita Sings the Most (1957, reissued 1994)
• Red Garland – The Red Garland Trio + Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis (1959)
• Billie Holiday – All or Nothing at All (1959)
• Ray Charles and Betty Carter – Ray Charles and Betty Carter (1961)
• McCoy Tyner – Nights of Ballads & Blues (1963)
• Tony Bennett and Bill Evans - The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album (1975)^[5]
• Pat Martino – We'll Be Together Again (1976) with Gil Goldstein
• Woody Shaw – For Sure! (1979)
• Diane Schuur – Diane Schuur & the Count Basie Orchestra (1987)
• Lena Horne – We'll Be Together Again (1994)
• Barbara Cook – All I Ask of You (1999)^[6]
• Carmen McRae – Torchy!/Blue Moon (1999)
• Rod Stewart – It Had To Be You: The Great American Songbook (2002)
• Dianne Reeves – A Little Moonlight (2003)
• Karin Krog & Steve Kuhn – Together Again (2006)
• June Christy – A Friendly Session, Vol. 3 (2000) with the Johnny Guarnieri Quintet
• Jan Harbeck – Copenhagen Nocturne (2013)
• Scott Hamilton – The Best Things In Life (2015)
• Jerry Weldon – What's New (2017)
• Walter Smith III – TWIO (2018)
• Seth MacFarlane – Once in a While (2019)

The song was used in the final episodes of two long-running daytime soap operas. The Tony Bennett version used in the final episode of the CBS soap opera Love of Life on February 1, 1980. The song played during the closing credits as the show's longtime director Larry Auerbach walked through the empty sets. The Lou Rawls version was used in the final episode of Search for Tomorrow, which aired on NBC on December 26, 1986. It played during the closing credits, ending as the show's star Mary Stuart, who played the serial's central character Joanne, said goodbye to the audience and thanked them for watching the show.

The version by Ray Charles and Betty Carter is used in the final ever episode of Moonlighting, aired on ABC on May 14, 1989, in which a montage of the best clips from the last five seasons is played at the very end.