| "Is That All There Is?" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by Peggy Lee | ||||
| from the album Is That All There Is? | ||||
| B-side | "Me and My Shadow" | |||
| Released | August 1969 | |||
| Recorded | 1969 | |||
| Studio | Capitol, Hollywood, California | |||
| Genre | Vocal jazz, traditional pop | |||
| Length | 4:19 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller | |||
| Producer(s) | Randy Newman[1] | |||
| Peggy Lee singles chronology | ||||
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"Is That All There Is?", a song written by American songwriting team Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller during the 1960s, became a hit for American singer Peggy Lee and an award winner from her album of the same title in November 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, while played on Daniel's own radio show, went unissued at the songwriters' request. The first authorized recording was by Leslie Uggams in August 1968. Then came the hit Peggy Lee version in August 1969, followed by Guy Lombardo in 1969 and Tony Bennett on 22 December 1969.[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 doing even better on adult contemporary radio, topping that Billboard chart. It also reached number six in Canada. It won Lee the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, and then later was named to the Grammy Hall of Fame.
The orchestral arrangement on the song was composed by Randy Newman, who played the piano in the slower introduction section,[3] and who also conducted the orchestra.[4]