Is That All There Is?

For the Peggy Lee album, see Is That All There Is? (album).

"Is That All There Is?"
Single by Peggy Lee
from the album Is That All There Is?
B-side"Me and My Shadow"
ReleasedAugust 1969 (1969-08)
Recorded1969
StudioCapitol, Hollywood, California
GenreVocal jazz, traditional pop
Length4:19
LabelCapitol
Songwriter(s)Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Producer(s)Randy Newman[1]
Peggy Lee singles chronology
"Spinning Wheel"
(1969) 		"Is That All There Is?"
(1969) 		"Whistle for Happiness"
(1969)

"Is That All There Is?" is a song written by American songwriting team Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. It became a hit for American singer Peggy Lee in 1969. The song was originally performed by Georgia Brown in May 1967 for a television special. It was first recorded by disc jockey Dan Daniel in March 1968, but this was an unauthorized recording that went unissued at the songwriters' request. The first authorized recording was by Leslie Uggams in August 1968.[2]

Peggy Lee's version reached number 11 on the U.S. pop singles chart, becoming her first Top 40 pop hit since "Fever" eleven years earlier, and topping the adult contemporary chart. It also reached number six in Canada. It won Lee the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and later was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

The orchestral arrangement on Lee's version was composed and conducted by Randy Newman, who played the piano in the song's introduction.[3][4]

  1. ^ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  2. ^ "Cover versions of Is That All There Is by Dan Daniels". SecondHandSongs.com. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
  3. ^ Kevin Courrier, Randy Newman: American Dreams, ECW Press, 2005, p. 97.
  4. ^ Gavin, James (2014). Is That All There Is?: The Strange Life of Peggy Lee (1st ed.). Atria Books. pp. 284–286. ISBN 978-1451641684. Retrieved 11 April 2015.