At Last!

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Last! is a studio debut album by American Blues and soul artist Etta James. Released on Argo Records in November 1960, the album was produced by Phil and Leonard Chess. Finally! also go up to no. 12 on the Billboard Top Album chart.

Last! ranks # 119 at Rolling Stone ' s 500 Greatest All Time Album. It also ranks as the 62nd best album of the 1960s by Pitchfork Magazine.

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Histori

The original launch of At Last! was published as a 12-inch LP consisting of ten songs, five songs on each side of the LP. Phil and Leonard Chess believe that James's voice has the potential of cross-crossover, so with this debut album, they support it with orchestral arrangements on many tracks. Finally! finally spawned four singles "All I Could Do Was Cry", "Believe Me," "At Last", and "My Dearest Darling". The album also includes standard pop and jazz covers, such as "Stormy Weather", "A Sunday Kind of Love", and "I Just Want to Make Love to You". On July 27, 1999, MCA/Chess was repeated digitally and reissued on an album on a compact disc, with four bonus duet songs performed with Harvey Fuqua: "My Heart Cries," "Spoonful," "It's a Crying Shame," and "If I can not have you."

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Song title Last! It has been covered by artists like Stevie Wonder, Beyonce, Leela James, Cyndi Lauper, Randy Crawford, and Celine Dion. Another album cut to All I Could Do Was Cry is covered by Beyonce and Gladys Knight & amp; The Pips.

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Critical reception

Since its release, At Last! has been praised by many music critics. Stephen Cook of AllMusic gave the album five out of five stars, and, about James, writes, "someone hears a singer at the top in a swinging program and varies from blues, R & B, and jazz standards." Cook also praised the material recorded for the album, saying that At Last! has "strong material throughout." He also went on to say that James's voice, "expertly handling jazz standards like" Stormy Weather "and" A Sunday Kind of Love, "as well as the classic blues of Willie Dixon" I Just Want to Make Love to You. "James showed him a sharp facility on the title track in particular, because he easily moves from strong blues to shriek to more subtle and windy phrases; his inspired Ruth Brown, bad-girl growl just adds to the intensity."

Rolling Stone also goes on to exclaim that "James blossomed into a fiery translator at this stunning LP."

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Commercial Response

Finally! go up to no. 12 on the Billboard Top Album chart. From the single album At Last, All I Could Do Was Cry, Trust Me and My Dearest Darling rose to nos. 2, 2, 4 & amp; 5 on Billboard Hot R & amp; B Songs. As the single At Last is also certified gold by the RIAA.

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Track list

First side

1. "Anything to Say You're mine" (Sonny Thompson) - 2:37
2. "My Dearest Darling" (Eddie Bocage, Paul Gayten) - 3:05
3. "Believe in Me" (Milton Ager, Jean Schwartz, Ned Weaver) - 3:01
4. "Kind of Love of the Week" (Louis Prima, Barbara Belle, Anita Leonard, Stan Rhodes) - 3:18
5. "Tough Mary" (Lorenzo Manley) - 2:27

Sisi dua

6. "Aku Ingin Bercinta" (Willie Dixon) - 3:08
7. "At Last" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) - 3:02
8. "All I Could Do Was Cry" (Billy Davis, Gwen Fuqua, Berry Gordy) - 2:58
9. "Cuaca Badai" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 3:10
10. "Girl of My Dreams" (Charles "Sunny" Clapp) - 2:25

Bonus track on CD 1999 re-release All songs recorded as duet with Harvey Fuqua

11. "My Heart Cries" (Fuqua, Etta James) - 2:36
12. "Spoonful" (Dixon) - 2:50
13. "It's a Crying Cry" (Fuqua, James) - 2:54
14. "If I Can not Have You" (Fuqua, James) - 2:50

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Credit

• Milton Ager - Composer
• Harold Arlen - Composer
• Barbara Belle - Composer
• Eddie Bocage - Composer
• Leonard Chess - Producer
• Phil Chess - Producer
• Sunny Clapp - Composer
• Billy Davis - Composer
• Michael Diehl - Reload Design
• Willie Dixon - Composer
• Gwen Fuqua - Composer
• Harvey Fuqua - Composer, Duet, Main Artist, Vocal
• Paul Gayten - Composer
• Mack Gordon - Composer
• Berry Gordy, Jr. -Composer
• Riley Hampton - Arranger, Conductor
• Etta James - Composer, Main Artist, Vocal
• Don Camerer - Liner Notes
• Ted Koehler - Composer
• Erick Labson - Remixing
• Anita Leonard - Composer
• Lorenzo Manley - Composer
• Andy McKaie - Liner Notes, Resend Producer
• Louis Prima - Composer
• Stan Rhodes - Composer
• Bob Schnieders - Coordination, Research
• Jean Schwartz - Composer
• Beth Stempel - Production Coordination
• Sonny Thompson - Composer
• Vartan - Art Direction
• Harry Warren - Composer
• Ned Wever - Composer

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Diagram

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References

• Larkin, ed. by Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4. ed.). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press. ISBN: 978-0195313734. CS1 maint: Additional text: author list (link)

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