At Last is a Grammy Award

Grammy Award

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-nominated 2003 album by Cyndi Lauper

Cyndi Lauper

Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper is an American singer, songwriter, actress and LGBT rights activist. She achieved success in the mid-1980s with the release of the album She's So Unusual and became the first female singer to have four top-five singles released from one album...

. It made the top 40 of the album charts in both the US

United States

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 and Australia

Australia

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. The album features a duet with Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett is an American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz....

 on "Makin' Whoopee". Lauper co-produced the album with Russ Titelman

Russ Titelman

Russ Titelman is an American record producer and songwriter. He has to date won three Grammy Awards. He earned his first producing the Steve Winwood song "Higher Love", and his second and third for Eric Clapton's Journeyman and Unplugged albums...

. The album consists of a collection of cover version

Cover version

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s of jazz standard

Jazz standard

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s songs, in addition to a cover of a contemporary song, re-arranged into a Jazz song.

The US

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 long box was available only at Costco

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 or Sam's Club

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 shops within the first two weeks when it was released. The song "Walk on By" was #15 in Billboard

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s Hot Dance Club Play and the S.A.F. and Eddie X Mixes version hit the same chart at #10.
The album has sold 276,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Track listing

1. "At Last
   At Last
   "At Last" is a 1941 song written by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren for the musical film Orchestra Wives, starring George Montgomery and Ann Rutherford. It was performed in the film and on record by Glenn Miller and his orchestra, with vocals by Ray Eberle and Pat Friday...
   
   " (Mack Gordon
   Mack Gordon
   Mack Gordon was an American composer and lyricist of songs for the stage and film. He was nominated for the best original song Oscar nine times, including six consecutive years between 1940 and 1945, and won the award once, for "You'll Never Know"...
   
   , Harry Warren
   Harry Warren
   Harry Warren was an American composer and lyricist. Warren was the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song eleven times and won three Oscars for composing "Lullaby of Broadway", "You'll Never Know" and "On the Atchison,...
   
   ) – 2:42
2. "Walk on By" (Burt Bacharach
   Burt Bacharach
   Burt F. Bacharach is an American pianist, composer and music producer. He is known for his popular hit songs and compositions from the mid-1950s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David. Many of their hits were produced specifically for, and performed by, Dionne Warwick...
   
   , Hal David
   Hal David
   Harold Lane "Hal" David is an American lyricist. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York. David is best known for his collaborations with composer Burt Bacharach.-Career:...
   
   ) – 4:32
3. "Stay
   Stay (Maurice Williams song)
   "Stay" is a doo-wop song recorded by Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs. The song was written by Williams in 1953 when he was 15 years old. He had been trying to convince his date not to go home at 10 o'clock as she was supposed to...
   
   " (Maurice Williams) – 3:13
4. "La Vie en Rose
   La vie en rose
   "La Vie en Rose" was the signature song of French singer Édith Piaf.-Signature song of Édith Piaf:Édith Piaf first popularized La Vie en Rose in 1946. The lyrics were written by Piaf and the melody of the song by "Louiguy" . Initially, Piaf's peers and her songwriting team did not think the song...
   
   " (Mack David
   Mack David
   Mack David was an American lyricist and songwriter, best known for his work in film and television, with a career spanning from the early 1940s through the early 1970s. Mack was credited with writing lyrics and/or music for over one thousand songs...
   
   , Louis Guglielmi, Édith Piaf
   Édith Piaf
   Édith Piaf , born Édith Giovanna Gassion, was a French singer and cultural icon who became widely regarded as France's greatest popular singer. Her singing reflected her life, with her specialty being ballads...
   
   ) – 3:34
5. "Unchained Melody
   Unchained Melody
   "Unchained Melody" is a 1955 song with music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret. It has become one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, by some counts having spawned over 500 versions in hundreds of different languages....
   
   " (Alex North
   Alex North
   Alex North was an American composer who wrote the first jazz-based film score and one of the first modernist scores written in Hollywood ....
   
   , Hy Zaret
   Hy Zaret
   Hy Zaret was an American Tin Pan Alley lyricist and composer best known as the co-author of the 1955 hit "Unchained Melody", one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century.-Biography:...
   
   ) – 4:27
6. "If You Go Away
   If You Go Away
   "If You Go Away" is a song in English based upon the French song "Ne me quitte pas" , written by Jacques Brel. The English lyrics were written by Rod McKuen as part of a larger project to translate Brel's work. "If You Go Away" is considered a pop standard and has been recorded by many artists,...
   
   " (Jacques Brel
   Jacques Brel
   Jacques Brel was a Belgian singer-songwriter who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following in France initially, and later throughout the world. He was widely considered a master of the modern chanson...
   
   , Rod McKuen
   Rod McKuen
   Rod McKuen is an American poet, songwriter, composer, and singer. He was one of the best-selling poets in the United States during the late 1960s. Throughout his career, McKuen produced a wide range of recordings, which included popular music, spoken word poetry, film soundtracks, and classical music...
   
   ) – 4:28
7. "Until You Come Back to Me
   Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)
   "Until You Come Back to Me " is the name of a song written by Morris Broadnax, Clarence Paul, and Stevie Wonder. The song was originally recorded by Stevie Wonder in 1967, but his version did not appear on an album until 1977's Anthology...
   
   " (Morris Broadnax, Clarence Paul
   Clarence Paul
   Clarence Otto Pauling , better known as Clarence Paul, was a songwriter and record producer for Detroit's Motown Records....
   
   , Stevie Wonder
   Stevie Wonder
   Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...
   
   ) – 4:39
8. "My Baby Just Cares for Me
   My Baby Just Cares for Me
   "My Baby Just Cares for Me" is a jazz standard written by Walter Donaldson with lyrics by Gus Kahn. It was written for the 1930 film version of the 1928 Ziegfeld musical comedy Whoopee!, starring Eddie Cantor. It is known as the signature tune of singer and pianist Nina Simone.-Nina Simone...
   
   " (Walter Donaldson
   Walter Donaldson
   Walter Donaldson was a prolific United States popular songwriter, composing many hit songs of the 1910s and 1920s.-History:...
   
   , Gus Kahn
   Gus Kahn
   Gustav Gerson Kahn was a musician, songwriter and lyricist.-Biography:Kahn was born in Koblenz, Germany in 1886. The family emigrated from there to the United States and moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1890...
   
   ) – 2:37
9. "Makin' Whoopee" (Donaldson, Kahn) – 4:13 (duet with Tony Bennett
   Tony Bennett
   Tony Bennett is an American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz....
   
   )
10. "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
    Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
    "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" is a song written by Bennie Benjamin, Gloria Caldwell and Sol Marcus for the singer/pianist Nina Simone, who first recorded it in 1964. "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" has been recorded or performed by many artists, and is widely known by the 1965 blues rock hit...
    
    " (Bennie Benjamin
    Bennie Benjamin
    Claude A. Benjamin was a songwriter, often teaming with George David Weiss. He was born on November 4, 1907 in Christiansted on the island of St. Croix . At the age of twenty, he moved to New York City. There, he studied the banjo and guitar with Hy Smith...
    
    , Gloria Caldwell, Sol Marcus) – 3:38
11. "You've Really Got a Hold on Me
    You've Really Got a Hold on Me
    "You've Really Got a Hold on Me" is a 1962 Top 10 hit single by The Miracles for the Tamla label. One of the group's most covered tunes, this million-selling song is a 1998 Grammy Hall of Fame inductee...
    
    " (Smokey Robinson
    Smokey Robinson
    William "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. Robinson is one of the primary figures associated with Motown, second only to the company's founder, Berry Gordy...
    
    ) – 4:03
12. "Hymn to Love
    Hymne à l'amour
    "Hymne à l'amour" is a popular French song originally performed by Édith Piaf. The lyrics were written by Piaf and the music by Marguerite Monnot. She first sang this song at the cabaret Versailles in New York on September 14, 1949. It was written to her lover and the love of her life, the French...
    
    " (Marguerite Monnot
    Marguerite Monnot
    Marguerite Monnot was a French songwriter and composer best known for having written many of the songs performed by Édith Piaf and for the music in the stage musical Irma La Douce....
    
    , Eddie Constantine
    Eddie Constantine
    Eddie Constantine was an American-born French actor and singer who spent his career working in Europe....
    
    ) – 3:33
13. "On the Sunny Side of the Street
    On the Sunny Side of the Street
    "On the Sunny Side of the Street" is a song with music composed by Jimmy McHugh and lyrics by Dorothy Fields, which was introduced in the Broadway musical Lew Leslie's International Revue, starring Harry Richman and Gertrude Lawrence....
    
    " (Dorothy Fields
    Dorothy Fields
    Dorothy Fields was an American librettist and lyricist.She wrote over 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films...
    
    , Jimmy McHugh
    Jimmy McHugh
    James Francis McHugh was a U.S. composer. One of the most prolific songwriters from the 1920s to the 1950s, he composed over 270 songs...
    
    ) – 4:05

Original performer

• "At Last" by Ray Eberle
  Ray Eberle
  Raymond "Ray" Eberle was a vocalist during the Big Band Era. Eberle sang with the Glenn Miller Orchestra.-Career:...
  
   and Pat Friday
  Pat Friday
  Helen Patricia Freiday was an Idaho-born singer best remembered for her work with Glenn Miller. She also worked with Roy Rogers, although she did not care for that style of music. She was a "ghost singer" for Lynn Bari, but was never credited....
  
   (1961)
• "Walk on By" by Dionne Warwick
  Dionne Warwick
  Dionne Warwick is an American singer, actress and TV show host, who became a United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, and a United States Ambassador of Health....
  
   (1960)
• "Stay" by Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs (1960)
• "La Vie en Rose" by Édith Piaf (1946)
• "Unchained Melody" by The Righteous Brothers
  The Righteous Brothers
  The Righteous Brothers were the musical duo of Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield. They recorded from 1963 through 1975, and continued to perform until Hatfield's death in 2003...
  
   (1965)
• "If You Go Away" (English version of "Ne Me Quitte Pas")
• "Until You Come Back to Me" by Aretha Franklin
  Aretha Franklin
  Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Although known for her soul recordings and referred to as The Queen of Soul, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B, gospel music, and rock. Rolling Stone magazine ranked her atop its list of The Greatest Singers of All...
  
   (1973)
• "My Baby Just Cares for Me" by Nina Simone
  Nina Simone
  Eunice Kathleen Waymon , better known by her stage name Nina Simone , was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist widely associated with jazz music...
  
   (1958)
• "Makin' Whoopee" (1928)
• "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" by Nina Simone (1964)
• "You've Really Got a Hold on Me" by The Miracles
  The Miracles
  The Miracles are an American rhythm and blues group from Detroit, Michigan, notable as the first successful group act for Berry Gordy's Motown Record Corporation . Their single "Shop Around" was Motown's first million-selling hit record, and the group went on to become one of Motown's signature...
  
   (1962)
• "Hymne à l'amour|Hymn to Love" by Édith Piaf (1950)
• "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (1930)

Chart performance

Chart (2003)	Peak position	Total weeks
Australian Albums Chart	32	5
French Albums Chart	85	9
Swiss Albums Chart	50	2
UK Albums Chart	124	?
U.S. Billboard 200	38	14

Personnel

• Produced by Russ Titelman, Cyndi Lauper
• Additional engineer: Steve Gaboury
• Mixed by William Wittman, Russ Titelman
• Mix assistant: George Fullan
• Assistant engineer: Sharon Tucker, Peter Doris, Tim Stritmater, Brian Dozoretz, Jason Finkel, Elizabeth Collins, Kurt Marks
• Production manager and contractor: Jill Dell'Abate
• Mastered by Ted Jensen
  Ted Jensen
  Ted Jensen is an American recording engineer. Jensen is the chief mastering engineer at Sterling Sound. He started his career as a mastering engineer in 1976 and is currently the most active Mastering Engineer in the industry...
  
  , Ryan Smith
• Management: Lisa Barbaris
• A&R: David Massey
• A&R coordinator: Evan L