At Last
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| Single by Etta James from the album At Last! | |||||
| B-side | "I Just Want to Make Love to You" | ||||
| Released | 1961 | ||||
| Format | 45 rpm | ||||
| Recorded | 1960 | ||||
| Genre | Soul blues | ||||
| Length | 2:57 | ||||
| Label | Argo | ||||
| Writer(s) | Mack Gordon, Harry Warren | ||||
| Producer | Phil Chess, Leonard Chess | ||||
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| Single by Céline Dion from the album A New Day Has Come | |||||
| Released | December 9, 2002 | ||||
| Format | Radio single | ||||
| Recorded | Studio Piccolo, Bananaboat Studios | ||||
| Genre | Pop | ||||
| Length | 4:16 (Album/Single Version) | ||||
| Label | Columbia, Epic | ||||
| Writer(s) | Mack Gordon, Harry Warren | ||||
| Producer | Humberto Gatica, Guy Roche | ||||
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"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 first performed in the film and on record by Glenn Miller and his orchestra, vocal by Ray Eberle & Pat Friday. The song was a major hit for Miller, and it soon became a standard. Nat King Cole recorded it in 1957 on his number one album Love Is the Thing. In 1960, it was covered by blues singer Etta James in a performance that improvised on Warren's melody. James was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999 for her rendition of the song.
The song was a favorite of Warren's and he would occasionally draw the melody of the first two bars of the song when signing an autograph.
The song became James's signature song and was the third in a string of successful songs from her Chess Records debut album At Last!. Upon the song's release in April 1961, it became her second number-two R&B hit and crossed over to pop radio, reaching number forty-seven on the Billboard Hot 100. Despite its rather low pop chart standing, the song is well-known and is still played regularly on oldies radio stations.
In the decades since its release it has been covered by a number of artists, including Ella Fitzgerald, Phoebe Snow, Miles Davis, Martina McBride, Céline Dion, Lou Rawls, Eva Cassidy, Christina Aguilera, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Nicks, Norah Jones, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Jimmy Scott, The Manhattan Rhythm Kings,Cyndi Lauper, Beyonce Knowles,and Nikki Yanofsky. The Etta James version is perhaps the most famous, and is known to be performed at weddings and wedding receptions because of its romantic lyrics and sweeping orchestration.
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