My partner was a big fan of Ms. Lee that he sent her flowers when she was performing in San Francisco at the Fairmount. She was so gracious for the flowers and gave him tickets to see her show and he got to meet her after the performance. My partner passed away from AIDS and I was so grateful to Ms. Lee to give him opportunity to me her. Every time I hear Ms. Lee brings me back to that time to a happy and sad time in my life.
Thank you for your loving & thoughtful sharing of your beautiful memory of meeting Peggy Lee & her total empathy for you both. Such sharings are so much needed in this world, in this life. You got to live out a dream & expressed your gratitude with much kindness.
The older one gets, the more you understand this song. The fear of pain and horror....and it's the fear that is is the most dreaded. Because after it's all done....is that all there is ?
For some of us this is absolute truth. Had I only understood this when I was young my pain wouldn’t be so sharp as it is today. I was once so young as to be hopeful.
i feel that this song can be interpreted as being about not letting fear of death and pain and heartbreak stop you from living, and instead finding meaning in 'all that there is'.
I always end up bawling when I watch this. My mom was the same age as Peggy Lee, and lived an unhappy life. When this song came on the radio in 1969, my mom always became very angry. She didn't want to believe that that's all there is, but the reality is, that's all there was - my mom's life didn't get better. She deserved better, and didn't get it.
God, I’m So sorry to hear about your mom and her suffering,, My Dad and I used to listen to Peggy Lee, especially this song, he passed away from alcoholism 😢 We were Very close
@@glendahalpert6590 Thanks for the thoughts. My mom also fell into heavy alcoholism, and it was a major factor in her demise. She suffered a massive hemorrhagic stroke at age 64, and lived nearly all the next six years in nursing homes before dying a few months after turning age 70. Above I said that she lived an unhappy life, but it only became unhappy when the wheels came off my parents' marriage in the late 1950s.
Never screamed. Never busted a blood vessel trying to sing as loud as possible. No histrionics, no nudity or vulgarity...and Peggy Lee makes more of a lasting impact with almost a whisper than all the screechers combined. Gosh she was good.
She is the real deal. She sings with a kind of deadpan expression at times, and yet communicates brilliantly. Her velvet voice, her intelligence, her nuance. She really is magic.
As a dumb teenager in '69 we used to make fun of the song as we were rock 'n rollers then. Funny how you change over time and now I think it's a great song. Love Sinatra too. :-)
Very good description of Peggy, especially as relates to her intelligence. I'll bet even God gives her an audience from time to time. Hope you're having a ball in Heaven (and that goes for one of her ardent fans, Betty Daum). R.I.P., to both of these ladies.
My sister, Rachel, after being diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer, aged 64, used to spend some weekends with me and my husband. One morning during breakfast, she took out her phone and played this song, I was shocked, but it is only now, 10 months later since she died that I understand what she was trying to convey to us. I play this video over and over.
Now Rachel knows that that's not all there is, after all. It never was all that there is but we mortals are so incapable of seeing how things really are. I hope you and your husband are hopeful and wise. God bless you. (from a well wisher in London)
Solomon once said that everything is meaningless. And I must tell you, without God, it all is. Nothing matters. Nothing will fulfill. Nothing means anything. But oh, with Jesus, everything means something.
It's probably a good thing I didn't hear this song when I was a child; it would have haunted me to the point of obsession. Last night, I played it over and over again until all my depths had been explored and my tears shed. Best sleep I had in months.
Glad is was cathartic for you. My mother HATED this song, and she was not a person inclined to hate anything. She thought it was a quick, one-way trip into depression.
Always loved this song. To me, it's about life and society telling you what's important and what's great, but this girl wasn't fooled, she thought for herself and realized that it was up to her to figure out what's important and great and what's not.
Driving away from Memphis on my Honeymoon with my beloved wife (1969) This was magical...headed into the darkness after a wonderful dinner at Embers in Memphis...With rice in our hair...Now, she has been gone for now 15 years,...And I know about that final, devastating disappointment. Sometimes, That is ALL that there is. Cherish the ones that you love, because you never know what is just around the corner.
I always admired Miss Peggy Lee for insisting and insisting and insisting Capitol release this song which she knew would result in a profound moment in her already long and remarkable career. The label finally gave in, pressing the minimum number of copies allowable, and just as Peg envisioned, the record climbed right onto the pop charts, went all the way to #13 and won Peggy Lee a far overdue Grammy award.
Mark Farnaway No, just different, The music industry has always had to be dragged kicking and screaming to a new style, or unique way of doing things. Then, when the inevitable happens and it succeeds, they all quickly jump on the bandwagon like they knew it would all along….
Sounds right. Capital records also were reluctant to release The Beatles' Hey Jude. They complained about the length. Talk about bozos whom haven't got a clue. Glad Peggy got the grammy. About time!
She really just wanted to grow old with someone 💔Her Father was an alcoholic and her Stepmother hit her over the head with a frying pan.She finally escaped by getting into showbusiness.
I recall it was about '52. I was a busboy at Sahati's Stateline Country Club, So. Tahoe. Ms. Lee was performing there, the busboys were all entranced with this magnificent creature. One night we were across the street at the bar at Harvey's. She entered, the bar hushed and one of the busboys (normally a quiet mannered kid, but with a few beers under his belt) jumped up and shouted, "Well, I'll be damned, it's PEGGY LEE!". Those, indeed, were the days.
Dan Schell I was born in august ‘52, worked at both Harvey’s & Sahara Del Webb / High Sierra hotels, & I’m reading this now in November 2019. Life is amazing. Nice story, Dan.
My mother loved this song..she died in 1997..my son was talking about something..and he said..is that all there is..and boom I was back in 1969..just like that..
Your comment made me smile sir. Not "i heard a joke" smile. More like "i understand every letter of that comment very deeply and personally" smile. And that a smile i get very rarely these days. Thanks.
No matter what life hands you, keep a POSITIVE attitude! Life should be 5% the facts of what occurs[good and bad] and 95%YOUR POSITIVE ATTITUDE and the actions you take! Cherish each and every day like a DIAMOND and do your best to help other people,especially those who are less fortunate than you are."Peggy Lee &Albert Camus"
By 1969 it was deep into the rock era and some thought Peggy was a relic from the past but them she came back on the scene and had this great tune at her very young age of 49. And then earlier in the year 57 year old Perry Como had a hit with "Seattle". Never count anyone out. Peggy reached #11 with this one. Amazing singer and actress as well.
I love this song. This song is one that keep me from ending it all after a bad break up. I have had many disappointments in life. But like Peggy I'm not ready for that Final disappointment.
Today this song is ringing in my ear. My grandmother used to sing it in her mid 60's. Now in my mid-60s, I finally understand the words:-) Is that all there is?
I remember sitting at the kitchen table one summer with my aunt after she would come home from work and she'd pour herself a stiff drink and we'd play this song over and over and laugh and enjoy each others company...her late 60's... me 14 years old...those were the good old days😏 here's to you aunt Virgie🍸
So true, have as much fun as you can because that really is all there is. I don't mean to suggest that people should be hedonistic but just enjoy life and be kind.
If that's all there is, if nothing we really do matters in the end, no destiny, no legavy, the only thing that matters is what we do, how we treat each other, and the joy we take in the small joys of life. Compassion. Kindness. Gratitude. Humility. Love. And some laughter.
I have no idea what she's talking about, but the music arrangement is absolutely BRILLIANT!! The discordant melodies backing her vocals and lyrics borderline as creepy. It's simply beautiful! THIS is what we got in 1969. Imagine music anywhere near the sophistication of this song today?? Ha!!
And, isn't that all there is? This came out in 1969. Lots of crap going on in the country then. But really, I looked forward no being lonely (12 years old), and I'm still lonely (62). Sucks for some, not for the chosen
So choose yourself Diana, don't wait for some nameless force to choose you. Better the devil you know, right? Have a read of listen little man by Wilhelm Reich, you can read a portion of it for free at listenlittleman . com There's wisdom there that might help you.
Dec. 26, 1979, Columbus, GA, a chilly night. My 18th birthday (legal drinking age then), driving around in my friend's 72 Buick Electra 225 land shark, drinking beer and smoking cigars. Around 1 am we saw fire trucks beside a suburban house. Stopped and got out with our cigars to see what was going on. Firefighters brought out the bodies of two little girls and laid them on the lawn, gave CPR to no avail. I'd never heard of this song but it captures perfectly how that tragedy affected me. Lee was/is a genius of the highest order and I recommend her early 90s album "There'll be Another Spring," a work of reinterpreted classics and originals to anyone.
For those who feel life owes them something special - this is their song . For those that believe life is something of an opportunity , something , a chance to make something special of - this song is a song of apathy . Peggy Lee makes you decide which way your gonna pick .Hauntingly performed as much as your choice haunts you . Thank you Peggy Lee .
Not at all. I know that life will never give anyone anything special. The only thing we've got is that we're all going to die disappointed. That's why this song is so good.
@@iancopestick6757 I think the song will be interpreted by each individual depending on how they feel. Some will see it as a song sang by a woman that always wanted something drastic to have more impact and others may see it as those challenges in life were not challenging enough to a strong person or even that she has always been in a state of not caring about anything, even death. Others might see it as just sarcasm.
that is one interpretation. but i see it so differently - i see it as an acknowledgement of the contradictions in life, the insignificance of each one of us ultimately, but also a celebration of each of us, of life and feelings and love and dance.. ahh it is all wrapped up and twisted and sad and... just lovely. every few years i revisit it and see something different as i go through the stages in my life, too. just wonderful.
One of my Dad's favorite songs. Born on the lower West Side in "Hell's Kitchen" in 1919, when it was truly Hell, he passed in 1989. He moved to Newark, NJ in the early 50's when he married my Mom & raised 5 sons (I'm 4th of 5). He was a man of his time: WW2 Navy vet, strong, silent, handsome & "oddly" generous, since he grew up with so little. I was with him when he passed, along with my Mom & hospice... I was in my 20's... I'll never forget that day or my great Dad💔
I think that I will have this song played at my funeral. It really strips life down to the bare minimum, doesn't it ? Life let's you down. Love lets you down. Even death will let you down. Merry Christmas !
@@iancopestick6757 I really hope you find excitement and joy! I know it can be hard. I have lived with depression since I was a child,. It is just the way my brain is made. I am 55 and recently started feeling less numb. I will keep you in my thoughts.
Ian, It depends how you look at life. Life has its ups and downs, but if you are a positive person look at the good and ignore the bad. God bless you. You seem to be feeling good, part of you any ways. Merry Christmas to you. This part.
After the madness of everything up to that point, and afterward, it was like an oasis or the center of a storm, just a brief few minutes of peace. Once in awhile you run into one.
Love the film, love the song and love, Peggy Lee. 👏👏👏👍 This song and Teri Garr's beehive hairdo and her jamming to The Monkees, are reasons enough to dig Scorseses' offbeat comedy!😂
That song, Bonnie and Clyde and Winchester Cathedral all creeped the hk out of me as a 5/6 yr old. Didn’t know what any of them meant but the chord progressions drew me in and helped to create this overly serious melancholy artist I am today. Even now as I write this I haven’t heard these songs in years but now I just have to. Thanks😒!
She is my favorite singer, even though I am from Russia, but in her I recognize myself precisely in those life difficulties that she had. I will definitely go to Westwood Cemetery in Los Angeles to give flowers to my favorite jazz artist. Her songs have always inspired me and inspire me to live, it's a pity that I didn't find her alive, I would so like to ask her and talk to her...but, unfortunately, I was born shortly before her death in 2000, and she died in 2001, she lives in our hearts and souls, rest in peace, Peggy, thank you very much for your eternal creativity, which continues to live. 😞❤❤❤❤❤
@@kyrstenwinterlake549 Thank you, I will definitely go to Los Angeles and lay flowers on her grave and post a minute of silence in her honor. I love jazz, but her songs are the ones I remember the most and are etched into my memory and they help me live.
What a masterpiece. I find it to be inspiring. She isn't afraid of death, she regards it as just another disappointment. First time hearing it today and I know I'll be listening for years. What a wonder it is to have video of her performing this live, it could just as easily not been uploaded at all and this marvelous performance would be lost to time. Even though she is gone she lives on through her art and continues to touch us today. Life is funny..
This is indeed the great Peggy Lee's most significant song of her fantastic reportoire. At 75 I find myself asking that very same question about the pourpose of Life !
I had a chance to see Miss Peggy Lee perform live twice....Once in a little nightclub called The Ballroom on Manhattan's West Side....And once in her one-woman Broadway show called "Peg"....She was so uniquely her own person, a great stylist and interpreter of the lyric; there was no other singer remotely like her....Her delivery was always just right....She always under sang a song, paying great attention to the lyrics....Watch her eyes and facial expressions as she weaves her magic telling her story in each song....She was a great chanteuse on the same level as Edith Piaf and Mabel Mercer....None of these great story-tellers of song will ever be forgotten....
I remember when this song came out, I was in junior high school. I thought at the time how depressing it was, but now all these years later I find it somehow comforting. Ironic.
1969 What a year! Man walks on the moon, Woodstock, Charles Manson, Chappaquiddick, Viet Nam Draft lottery, Stonewall Riot, Hurricane Camille, Beatles release "Abbey Road", Easy Rider, Midnight Cowboy, Stone's free concert Altamont fan killed. I remember it all. I was 13 years old and singing along with Peggy Lee "Is that all there is?" In some way, I felt older then. My history teacher said we were going into the period of disillusionment following a period of idealism. It helped to put it all in perspective.
Ir SURE did!!! Come to think of it, it has never abated----what with the present Washington spectacle really having us "rap" "Is THIS all there is?!!"........THANK YOU....."I shall be released"-----(Nina Simone) is a much more "comforting" anthem as we grow old!........
This may sound weird to younger folk, but we used to sing, or hum, this song before we went out on ambush back in the Big Swampy. We soldiers never really knew whether that was gonna be our last dance.
"I'm not ready for that final disap-Pointment"... That is so essentially Peggy Lee. She just nails it. Unforgettable. One of my all-time favorites, this song and especially this particular performance.
I was just 19... I was much to young to hear this song, Is That All There Is sung by Peggy Lee. My life was as of yet an untested one. I was living in the San Francisco area at the time. It was electric with youth and the world was our oyster. I was introduced to Janis Joplin at Billy Graham's Filmore West and Jefferson Airplane, It's A Beautiful Day, QuickSilver, Santana and many more. It was an exciting time but I was becoming more vulnerable to esoteric musings swirling about me aided by the Siddhartha , you know Hermann Hesse's book and others. Then this song comes out. It did not fit the sixties yet it sucked me into its sense of meaningless. If you are 19 and under don't listen to this song.
this song is more of a question then answer. which I love it leaves to come with a answer or none at all. it's perfectly fine at any age, if you understand it then you'll know the question or you just won't understand the song.
+Taigen Riggs - I was a little on the young side, and anxiously - probably watching the Grammy's or similar and I heard this song and fell hard for it. Other school kids thought it was stupid. Not me. I'll revisit it from time to time or when I come upon some sight I've waited much of my life to see that underwhelms, this song comes to mind.
Terrific. Peggy Lee is one of those artists whose talent and skill can't be described... But she was simply sublime. A friend told me about her, I didn't get her at first but I listened, watched and listened again. Now Peggy Lee is under my skin, she had expression and sincerity.
Wow....can't believe you've never heard Ms. Lee's music before. You must be really young. Peggy Lee is one of the greatest. I so wish I would've been part of that generation. :(
I never heard of her either until the movie "Beach Bum" came out. They played this song in the movie and I liked it so much I just had to research it to find it on youtube. Now I know who she is and she is certainly talented with a lot of wisdom.
My take on the song was always if you don't have an expectation you won't have a disappointment ...every time you expect something it's going to be disappointing ...nothing is ever as good or as bad as it's imagined... You survive...But break out the booze and have a ball with your friends It's what you do in between the expectations... It's John Lennon's famous saying Life is what happens while you're making plans... I adore this song
The first time I heard this song, I liked it. I guess I was around 23 years old. I didn't take it as a negative sad song. I took it as "just don't expect too much" like the stories we heard as children's books suggested. Handsome Prince? NO. You can trust a grown-up. NO. Everyone lives happily ever after. NO. I thought the song was great because it had a attitude of if life gives you lemons, make lemonade. So, I broke out the booze and had a ball but guess what? I said, "Hmmm...is that all there is to partying?" Almost 50 years later I still love this song. It just makes sense to me. Que Sera, Sera and Hakuna Matata.
I was in the shower at my mum and dads, must have been 16, and heard this, took me years to find it. I found it in my 60’s , from the day I first heard it I was hooked, so powerful when I first heard it I said to myself that’s what I want to be played at my funeral. A bit strange, I know but it that all there is?
This song has never been more relevant that it is now, in the 2020s. We have never had access to so much, yet so few seem to be happy with their lot, complaining about what they DON'T have and how what they DO doesn't live up to their expectations. It's quite heartbreaking and I can't see the world malaise getting any better.
Just 'discovered' this wonderful song, via a cover from the great Debbie Harry and Billie Eilish. Unexpected collaboration, but a wonderful tribute to Peggy Lee's original.
My partner was a big fan of Ms. Lee that he sent her flowers when she was performing in San Francisco at the Fairmount. She was so gracious for the flowers and gave him tickets to see her show and he got to meet her after the performance. My partner passed away from AIDS and I was so grateful to Ms. Lee to give him opportunity to me her. Every time I hear Ms. Lee brings me back to that time to a happy and sad time in my life.
It must have been the wonderful Venetian Room. My Dad worked at the Fairmont Hotel for Mr. Swig who owned the hotel.
That’s beautiful
Thank you for your loving & thoughtful sharing of your beautiful memory of meeting Peggy Lee & her total empathy for you both. Such sharings are so much needed in this world, in this life. You got to live out a dream & expressed your gratitude with much kindness.
What a beautiful but tragic story 💐 May your partner live long in loving memory
YEP SHE WAS SO COOL & NICE TO ME WHEN I OPENED FOR HER...JACK ENGLISH WEHO 11/2021...
The older one gets, the more you understand this song. The fear of pain and horror....and it's the fear that is is the most dreaded. Because after it's all done....is that all there is ?
For some of us this is absolute truth. Had I only understood this when I was young my pain wouldn’t be so sharp as it is today. I was once so young as to be hopeful.
Peggy Lee says it all
i feel that this song can be interpreted as being about not letting fear of death and pain and heartbreak stop you from living, and instead finding meaning in 'all that there is'.
@@susanwoehler-hamilton8806 so true
no...the song is about keep findinh new meanings...keep searching and don't break out booze yet
I always end up bawling when I watch this. My mom was the same age as Peggy Lee, and lived an unhappy life. When this song came on the radio in 1969, my mom always became very angry. She didn't want to believe that that's all there is, but the reality is, that's all there was - my mom's life didn't get better. She deserved better, and didn't get it.
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God, I’m So sorry to hear about your mom and her suffering,,
My Dad and I used to listen to Peggy Lee, especially this song, he passed away from alcoholism 😢
We were Very close
@@glendahalpert6590 Thanks for the thoughts. My mom also fell into heavy alcoholism, and it was a major factor in her demise. She suffered a massive hemorrhagic stroke at age 64, and lived nearly all the next six years in nursing homes before dying a few months after turning age 70. Above I said that she lived an unhappy life, but it only became unhappy when the wheels came off my parents' marriage in the late 1950s.
Lou, Sorry to hear that but rest assured she must be in heaven as the earth was a nightmare to her. God Bless you.
I'm so sorry
Never screamed. Never busted a blood vessel trying to sing as loud as possible. No histrionics, no nudity or vulgarity...and Peggy Lee makes more of a lasting impact with almost a whisper than all the screechers combined. Gosh she was good.
And no vocal fry like most American women speakers since 2005.
I agree 100%.
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Great storytelling. It reminds me of the storytelling of the late Marlena Shaw in “Go Away, Little Boy” albeit different.
She is the real deal. She sings with a kind of deadpan expression at times, and yet communicates brilliantly. Her velvet voice, her intelligence, her nuance. She really is magic.
Well said my Friend.What a voice and Entertainer.
As a dumb teenager in '69 we used to make fun of the song as we were rock 'n rollers then. Funny how you change over time and now I think it's a great song. Love Sinatra too. :-)
Very good description of Peggy, especially as relates to her intelligence. I'll bet even God gives her an audience from time to time. Hope you're having a ball in Heaven (and that goes for one of her ardent fans, Betty Daum). R.I.P., to both of these ladies.
Why does someone like her have to leave us. What’s it’s all about. Life.
🌠She's a _S T A R🌠_
My sister, Rachel, after being diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer, aged 64, used to spend some weekends with me and my husband. One morning during breakfast, she took out her phone and played this song, I was shocked, but it is only now, 10 months later since she died that I understand what she was trying to convey to us. I play this video over and over.
Berry Noctor your story is beautiful my mother's gone now but the same fleeting we are
Now Rachel knows that that's not all there is, after all. It never was all that there is but we mortals are so incapable of seeing how things really are. I hope you and your husband are hopeful and wise. God bless you. (from a well wisher in London)
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Solomon once said that everything is meaningless. And I must tell you, without God, it all is. Nothing matters. Nothing will fulfill. Nothing means anything. But oh, with Jesus, everything means something.
I sincerely hope you've found peace ....
My dear departed Dad always played this when we were done opening presents 🎁 on Xmas morning 🎄
I love this so much! Going to steal this move. ❤
How appropriate
That’s hilarious! He must have had a great sense of humor.
Palm Royale on Apple TV will bring new life to this song.
Possibly the best song ever written about the human condition . Just simply wonderfully amazing. My heart beat like a clock the first time I heard it.
I agree totally
60bpm is good
I love this song too. It is AMAZING.
@nne 😊
It has some kind of magic. I love it.
right there with ya...
My theme song. Is that all there is??? Exactly how I feel at 68.
Are you still there? I have the urge to know you and talk to you if that’s okay? I want to know what else you love. What you’ve been through.
I’m 65 & this has been my theme song for decades. Man, I feel old. I’m ready to fly …
Really loved her. Always loved this song. Now that I am 81 years old I more than love it I feel it.
Are you still there? I have the urge to know you and talk to you if that’s okay? I want to know what else you love. What you’ve been through.
Unlike most of today's female singers, Peggy never over sings the song. Such a talent! Love her!
I could not have said that better❤
Agreed... I think for comparison/example that Adele is the total "oversinger"... Painfully drowning in self-pity...
No "look at me" warbling that Whitney Houston started...
It’s all in the swing. She makes it look easy, it’s not!
Love her voice and style...she never "over sang" a song...just that pure beautiful voice and perfect tone and pitch.
Not bad 4 a North Dakota gal.
Heidi Heidkamp would be proud
Something so simple ..so lovely,.
Unique, and uniquely special, Peggy Lee - I got here from a DE forum on Brexit. She was popular in the UK too.
It's probably a good thing I didn't hear this song when I was a child; it would have haunted me to the point of obsession. Last night, I played it over and over again until all my depths had been explored and my tears shed. Best sleep I had in months.
Yoayts ben Yoatys I like your comment
I DID hear it as a child. And it HAS haunted me ever since. I now listen to it periodically because I MUST.
I get this
Glad is was cathartic for you. My mother HATED this song, and she was not a person inclined to hate anything. She thought it was a quick, one-way trip into depression.
I was obsessed with this song as a kid.
Man this is so it
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Glad to know we're obsessed with the same things at the same time
it’s garrett!!!!
Known world wide with talent beyond compare. RIP PL
oh word a man of taste
No smoke & mirrors needed, just pure talent.
Always loved this song. To me, it's about life and society telling you what's important and what's great, but this girl wasn't fooled, she thought for herself and realized that it was up to her to figure out what's important and great and what's not.
Brilliant comment!
Absolutely😂
She was TRUE original. Her performance of this is FABULOUS ❗
Driving away from Memphis on my Honeymoon with my beloved wife (1969) This was magical...headed into the darkness after a wonderful dinner at Embers in Memphis...With rice in our hair...Now, she has been gone for now 15 years,...And I know about that final, devastating disappointment. Sometimes, That is ALL that there is. Cherish the ones that you love, because you never know what is just around the corner.
I think this must be the greatest, saddest and most misanthropic song ever..
Needless to say,I love it.
Misanthropic?
I always admired Miss Peggy Lee for insisting and insisting and insisting Capitol release this song which she knew would result in a profound moment in her already long and remarkable career. The label finally gave in, pressing the minimum number of copies allowable, and just as Peg envisioned, the record climbed right onto the pop charts, went all the way to #13 and won Peggy Lee a far overdue Grammy award.
Mark Farnaway No, just different, The music industry has always had to be dragged kicking and screaming to a new style, or unique way of doing things. Then, when the inevitable happens and it succeeds, they all quickly jump on the bandwagon like they knew it would all along….
Wayne Brasler I agree. The Grammy was LONG overdue. Why there weren't more is a mystery to me
Wayne Brasler Lieber and Stoller wrote this song.
Sounds right. Capital records also were reluctant to release The Beatles' Hey Jude. They complained about the length. Talk about bozos whom haven't got a clue.
Glad Peggy got the grammy. About time!
She really just wanted to grow old with someone 💔Her Father was an alcoholic and her Stepmother hit her over the head with a frying pan.She finally escaped by getting into showbusiness.
I recall it was about '52. I was a busboy at Sahati's Stateline Country Club, So. Tahoe. Ms. Lee was performing there, the busboys were all entranced with this magnificent creature. One night we were across the street at the bar at Harvey's. She entered, the bar hushed and one of the busboys (normally a quiet mannered kid, but with a few beers under his belt) jumped up and shouted, "Well, I'll be damned, it's PEGGY LEE!". Those, indeed, were the days.
I bet she loved it.
Awwww Dan......golden.....
Dan Schell I was born in august ‘52, worked at both Harvey’s & Sahara Del Webb / High Sierra hotels, & I’m reading this now in November 2019. Life is amazing. Nice story, Dan.
damn, sounded like a good time to be alive. Wish I could have been born in a generation like that.
Trenton Wells nah, cold war, nuclear bomb tests galore, polluted rivers etc. No wonder people danced and drank a lot to forget
My mother loved this song..she died in 1997..my son was talking about something..and he said..is that all there is..and boom I was back in 1969..just like that..
To my mother.. who loved this so much we kept our promise to play it at her wake... Love you mom. Miss you ....
A great song at a funeral your mum had great taste with a twist of humour, may she r.i.p
This is my favorite song of all time. Not kidding. She was great and the sentiment... the philosophy, I love it. It hurts so good.
Memento mori.
Your comment made me smile sir. Not "i heard a joke" smile. More like "i understand every letter of that comment very deeply and personally" smile. And that a smile i get very rarely these days. Thanks.
Bang on Paddy. Bang on... xxx ;-)
@@alpha1dcd For my funeral
No matter what life hands you, keep a POSITIVE attitude! Life should be 5% the facts of what occurs[good and bad] and 95%YOUR POSITIVE ATTITUDE and the actions you take! Cherish each and every day like a DIAMOND and do your best to help other people,especially those who are less fortunate than you are."Peggy Lee &Albert Camus"
She's such a perfect combination between class, coolness, and wittiness.
The beautiful and talented Peggy Lee... such a sultry voice... great talent. The entertainment world misses you tremendously.
By 1969 it was deep into the rock era and some thought Peggy was a relic from the past but them she came back on the scene and had this great tune at her very young age of 49. And then earlier in the year 57 year old Perry Como had a hit with "Seattle". Never count anyone out. Peggy reached #11 with this one. Amazing singer and actress as well.
I was feeling guilty for enjoying my nightly cocktail..then I remembered....is that all there is?....
I love this song. This song is one that keep me from ending it all after a bad break up. I have had many disappointments in life. But like Peggy I'm not ready for that Final disappointment.
Today this song is ringing in my ear. My grandmother used to sing it in her mid 60's. Now in my mid-60s, I finally understand the words:-)
Is that all there is?
The song I want played at my funeral.
I remember sitting at the kitchen table one summer with my aunt after she would come home from work and she'd pour herself a stiff drink and we'd play this song over and over and laugh and enjoy each others company...her late 60's... me 14 years old...those were the good old days😏 here's to you aunt Virgie🍸
That is a lovely memory. I can picture it clearly. Thanks for sharing.
I LOVE that!! Thank you for sharing!!! What a Beautiful time!!!!!!!
Yes, my friends, that IS all there is. That is why I keep dancing and having a ball.
Me too!
This will be played at my funeral ugh
Breaking out the Procecco and having a ball!!
So true, have as much fun as you can because that really is all there is. I don't mean to suggest that people should be hedonistic but just enjoy life and be kind.
If that's all there is, if nothing we really do matters in the end, no destiny, no legavy, the only thing that matters is what we do, how we treat each other, and the joy we take in the small joys of life.
Compassion.
Kindness.
Gratitude.
Humility.
Love.
And some laughter.
I have no idea what she's talking about, but the music arrangement is absolutely BRILLIANT!! The discordant melodies backing her vocals and lyrics borderline as creepy. It's simply beautiful! THIS is what we got in 1969. Imagine music anywhere near the sophistication of this song today?? Ha!!
The Ultimate Accompaniment For Severe Depression.
T e x t. To is TT hat. All. There is
Nah man. It's a happy song! Just keep dancing!
Oh no your comment has actually made me rethink about life.
And, isn't that all there is? This came out in 1969. Lots of crap going on in the country then. But really, I looked forward no being lonely (12 years old), and I'm still lonely (62). Sucks for some, not for the chosen
So choose yourself Diana, don't wait for some nameless force to choose you. Better the devil you know, right? Have a read of listen little man by Wilhelm Reich, you can read a portion of it for free at listenlittleman . com
There's wisdom there that might help you.
My girlfriend played this LP for me in 1989. It's still the best version, 40 years later, after countless covers.
Are you still together with her?
Dec. 26, 1979, Columbus, GA, a chilly night. My 18th birthday (legal drinking age then), driving around in my friend's 72 Buick Electra 225 land shark, drinking beer and smoking cigars. Around 1 am we saw fire trucks beside a suburban house.
Stopped and got out with our cigars to see what was going on. Firefighters brought out the bodies of two little girls and laid them on the lawn, gave CPR to no avail.
I'd never heard of this song but it captures perfectly how that tragedy affected me. Lee was/is a genius of the highest order and I recommend her early 90s album "There'll be Another Spring," a work of reinterpreted classics and originals to anyone.
😢
Palm Royale brought me here
Thank you 🖤
For those who feel life owes them something special - this is their song . For those that believe life is something of an opportunity , something , a chance to make something special of - this song is a song of apathy . Peggy Lee makes you decide which way your gonna pick .Hauntingly performed as much as your choice haunts you . Thank you Peggy Lee .
Brilliantly expressed
Not at all.
I know that life will never give anyone anything special.
The only thing we've got is that we're all going to die disappointed.
That's why this song is so good.
@@iancopestick6757 I think the song will be interpreted by each individual depending on how they feel. Some will see it as a song sang by a woman that always wanted something drastic to have more impact and others may see it as those challenges in life were not challenging enough to a strong person or even that she has always been in a state of not caring about anything, even death. Others might see it as just sarcasm.
Salute! This is my mom's favorite song... and she deserves it. Bitter till the last day.
Thank you for this. 😎You get it!
that is one interpretation. but i see it so differently - i see it as an acknowledgement of the contradictions in life, the insignificance of each one of us ultimately, but also a celebration of each of us, of life and feelings and love and dance.. ahh it is all wrapped up and twisted and sad and... just lovely. every few years i revisit it and see something different as i go through the stages in my life, too. just wonderful.
My mother loved this song. Now I see why. Right on Peggy. The older we get the more meaning this song has!
I've loved this song from the first moment I heard Miss Peggy Lee sing it! I was 17 then and I'm 70 now. And I still ask myself, is that all there is?
One of my Dad's favorite songs. Born on the lower West Side in "Hell's Kitchen" in 1919, when it was truly Hell, he passed in 1989. He moved to Newark, NJ in the early 50's when he married my Mom & raised 5 sons (I'm 4th of 5). He was a man of his time: WW2 Navy vet, strong, silent, handsome & "oddly" generous, since he grew up with so little. I was with him when he passed, along with my Mom & hospice... I was in my 20's... I'll never forget that day or my great Dad💔
This song reminds me of my dad who used to play music every morning on his day off.And would wake us up to peggy lee God bless you Peggy.
I think that I will have this song played at my funeral.
It really strips life down to the bare minimum, doesn't it ?
Life let's you down.
Love lets you down.
Even death will let you down.
Merry Christmas !
If, I was going to have a funeral, I would.
Have you found any happiness and positivity in your life? I sure hope so.
@@gracejones2831 Not really, but I am better now than I was then.
@@iancopestick6757 I really hope you find excitement and joy! I know it can be hard. I have lived with depression since I was a child,. It is just the way my brain is made. I am 55 and recently started feeling less numb. I will keep you in my thoughts.
Ian, It depends how you look at life. Life has its ups and downs, but if you are a positive person look at the good and ignore the bad. God bless you. You seem to be feeling good, part of you any ways. Merry Christmas to you. This part.
This song is hauntingly beautiful in after hours
After the madness of everything up to that point, and afterward, it was like an oasis or the center of a storm, just a brief few minutes of peace. Once in awhile you run into one.
Love the film, love the song and love, Peggy Lee. 👏👏👏👍
This song and Teri Garr's beehive hairdo and her jamming to The Monkees, are reasons enough to dig Scorseses' offbeat comedy!😂
Classic flick.
That movie is how I discovered this song and I’ve loved it ever since.
I was 17 year old when this song came up 1969 . I liked it I loved her voice . A long time ago it seems but in God ‘s time it’s like a second.
What a difficult song to do with the timing, tempo, and key changes. Genius!! Always my favorite of Peggy's.
Let's share Peggy Lee with this song to all
This song in 1969 and Mary Hopkin's "Those Were The Days" in 1968 had a profound effect on me in my 18th year. These songs went deep inside me.
I totally agree.. and for myself, I add Look What They've Done With My Song, Ma
“When I Was Seventeen” is still one of my personal favorites and so profound, much like this.
@@ellencarlisle9638 Add in Janis Ian, "At Seventeen".
That song, Bonnie and Clyde and Winchester Cathedral all creeped the hk out of me as a 5/6 yr old. Didn’t know what any of them meant but the chord progressions drew me in and helped to create this overly serious melancholy artist I am today. Even now as I write this I haven’t heard these songs in years but now I just have to. Thanks😒!
Her best song in my opinion. Heartfelt and so melancholy. Peggy is one of the best singers the world will ever see. ❤❤❤Peggy❤❤❤
One of the best female vocalist ever.
Classy, sophisticated, beautiful....Peggy Lee.
When interviewed about this song she said that the answer to the question is "Oh No there's much more!" Love her. She's magnificent.
She’s a genius I love her songs. Is this your favorite song from her?
Incredible singer. Unbelievablely heartbreaking song. When the bf went away, and she thought she would die. But, she didn't. That line hits home.
Genius of her sort. A life-affirming song for me. The calm viewpoint of the spirit.
She owns this song - no none else.
She is my favorite singer, even though I am from Russia, but in her I recognize myself precisely in those life difficulties that she had. I will definitely go to Westwood Cemetery in Los Angeles to give flowers to my favorite jazz artist. Her songs have always inspired me and inspire me to live, it's a pity that I didn't find her alive, I would so like to ask her and talk to her...but, unfortunately, I was born shortly before her death in 2000, and she died in 2001, she lives in our hearts and souls, rest in peace, Peggy, thank you very much for your eternal creativity, which continues to live. 😞❤❤❤❤❤
You have a beautiful old-soul. She is my favourite too for so many reasons.
@@kyrstenwinterlake549 Thank you, I will definitely go to Los Angeles and lay flowers on her grave and post a minute of silence in her honor. I love jazz, but her songs are the ones I remember the most and are etched into my memory and they help me live.
Привет
What a masterpiece. I find it to be inspiring. She isn't afraid of death, she regards it as just another disappointment. First time hearing it today and I know I'll be listening for years. What a wonder it is to have video of her performing this live, it could just as easily not been uploaded at all and this marvelous performance would be lost to time. Even though she is gone she lives on through her art and continues to touch us today. Life is funny..
This is indeed the great Peggy Lee's most significant song of her fantastic reportoire. At 75 I find myself asking that very same question about the pourpose of Life !
I am an embryo and I really like this.
This comment is severely underrated >:(
@@mrsuperdudly1 I'm four now.
Wow.
Now that is one stellar performance.
i had the 45., and knew it then at age 10
Grazie per aver scelto QUESTA CANZONE .MI PIACE MOLTO .
It won her the best female pop vocalist, in 1969.
That is a masterpiece performed by one of the greats. I watch it every couple of months.
So do i
Fantastic !
I had a chance to see Miss Peggy Lee perform live twice....Once in a little nightclub called The Ballroom on Manhattan's West Side....And once in her one-woman Broadway show called "Peg"....She was so uniquely her own person, a great stylist and interpreter of the lyric; there was no other singer remotely like her....Her delivery was always just right....She always under sang a song, paying great attention to the lyrics....Watch her eyes and facial expressions as she weaves her magic telling her story in each song....She was a great chanteuse on the same level as Edith Piaf and Mabel Mercer....None of these great story-tellers of song will ever be forgotten....
I remember when this song came out, I was in junior high school. I thought at the time how depressing it was, but now all these years later I find it somehow comforting. Ironic.
I remember watching this performance and even now I am still blown away by Peggy Lee.
I saw Peggy Lee in Vegas back in the early '70's and that song has been stuck in my head for 50 years!
Peggy you are so Loved & Deeply Missed!
Your Voice was Heavenly!
Rip Beautiful Angel 🧡
So true
Here because of Anderson. My Heart goes out to you and RIP Gloria.
Me too, simply beautiful rendition of this song. Anderson's mother had impeccable taste.
*coughs*
When talent meant talented.
She's priceless.
Brings back a wonderful memory
Hello Melanie, How are you doing?
This woman was a legendary singer, character, and writer.
I could listen to Peggy Lee sing this song a million times or more. What an amazing lyric!
I remember my band and I playing this song 🎶 in high school! ! As I walked offstage I said to myself, is that all there is! To being being a musician
The music is pure Berlin 1932 - what a wonderful piece of work. And wonderful interpretation.
And such a nice fit for Mad Men Series 7 Episode 8.
The song has a feel of Joel Grey in the "" Three Penny Opera"".
YEP..JE
@@drohegda I would have said Lotte Lenya,but same ballpark I guess...
Silence is louder than words . That's how she beats the odds. Magnifique
1969 What a year! Man walks on the moon, Woodstock, Charles Manson, Chappaquiddick, Viet Nam Draft lottery, Stonewall Riot, Hurricane Camille, Beatles release "Abbey Road", Easy Rider, Midnight Cowboy, Stone's free concert Altamont fan killed. I remember it all. I was 13 years old and singing along with Peggy Lee "Is that all there is?" In some way, I felt older then. My history teacher said we were going into the period of disillusionment following a period of idealism. It helped to put it all in perspective.
Ir SURE did!!! Come to think of it, it has never abated----what with the present Washington spectacle really having us "rap" "Is THIS all there is?!!"........THANK YOU....."I shall be released"-----(Nina Simone) is a much more "comforting" anthem as we grow old!........
This may sound weird to younger folk, but we used to sing, or hum, this song before we went out on ambush back in the Big Swampy. We soldiers never really knew whether that was gonna be our last dance.
I adore this song.
+twitterienne I first heard this song in the movie After Hours and have adored it too.
+Gill Man it was eerie like something from the twilight zone or an inescapable dream
You describe it perfectly . (My opinion of course !)
+Gill Man lol great song and performance very evocative
yeah, me too baby.
"I'm not ready for that final disap-Pointment"... That is so essentially Peggy Lee. She just nails it. Unforgettable. One of my all-time favorites, this song and especially this particular performance.
my Mom loved this song! She died at age 69
I'm not a nihilist but I savor every second I hear this song. Peggy Lee was wonderful.
I was just 19... I was much to young to hear this song, Is That All There Is sung by Peggy Lee. My life was as of yet an untested one. I was living in the San Francisco area at the time. It was electric with youth and the world was our oyster. I was introduced to Janis Joplin at Billy Graham's Filmore West and Jefferson Airplane, It's A Beautiful Day, QuickSilver, Santana and many more. It was an exciting time but I was becoming more vulnerable to esoteric musings swirling about me aided by the Siddhartha , you know Hermann Hesse's book and others.
Then this song comes out. It did not fit the sixties yet it sucked me into its sense of meaningless. If you are 19 and under don't listen to this song.
this song is more of a question then answer. which I love it leaves to come with a answer or none at all. it's perfectly fine at any age, if you understand it then you'll know the question or you just won't understand the song.
+Taigen Riggs too late
+Taigen Riggs it has been one of my favourite songs since I was 18
+Taigen Riggs - I was a little on the young side, and anxiously - probably watching the Grammy's or similar and I heard this song and fell hard for it. Other school kids thought it was stupid. Not me. I'll revisit it from time to time or when I come upon some sight I've waited much of my life to see that underwhelms, this song comes to mind.
Terrific. Peggy Lee is one of those artists whose talent and skill can't be described... But she was simply sublime.
A friend told me about her, I didn't get her at first but I listened, watched and listened again. Now Peggy Lee is under my skin, she had expression and sincerity.
Wow....can't believe you've never heard Ms. Lee's music before. You must be really young. Peggy Lee is one of the greatest. I so wish I would've been part of that generation. :(
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I never heard of her either until the movie "Beach Bum" came out. They played this song in the movie and I liked it so much I just had to research it to find it on youtube. Now I know who she is and she is certainly talented with a lot of wisdom.
Love her thanks to my mom for always showing me great music
THIS audience should have been on their feet!
My take on the song was always if you don't have an expectation you won't have a disappointment ...every time you expect something it's going to be disappointing ...nothing is ever as good or as bad as it's imagined... You survive...But break out the booze and have a ball with your friends It's what you do in between the expectations... It's John Lennon's famous saying Life is what happens while you're making plans... I adore this song
My philosophy professor played this at the end of our final class. It really made me stop and think .. is that all there is? Very haunting song.
The first time I heard this song, I liked it. I guess I was around 23 years old. I didn't take it as a negative sad song. I took it as "just don't expect too much" like the stories we heard as children's books suggested. Handsome Prince? NO. You can trust a grown-up. NO. Everyone lives happily ever after. NO. I thought the song was great because it had a attitude of if life gives you lemons, make lemonade. So, I broke out the booze and had a ball but guess what? I said, "Hmmm...is that all there is to partying?" Almost 50 years later I still love this song. It just makes sense to me. Que Sera, Sera and Hakuna Matata.
I was in the shower at my mum and dads, must have been 16, and heard this, took me years to find it. I found it in my 60’s , from the day I first heard it I was hooked, so powerful when I first heard it I said to myself that’s what I want to be played at my funeral. A bit strange, I know but it that all there is?
It’s a very beautiful song, are you a huge fan of her songs?
If that's all there is, my friend, then let's keep dancing....
This woman was MAGNIFICENT!!!
This was my favorite song when I was a little girl. What an odd duck I was!
why would you think you were an odd duck?
This song has never been more relevant that it is now, in the 2020s. We have never had access to so much, yet so few seem to be happy with their lot, complaining about what they DON'T have and how what they DO doesn't live up to their expectations. It's quite heartbreaking and I can't see the world malaise getting any better.
Realizing life has disappointments and learning to accept and make the best of it.
One of the 20th century's greatest performances. Bravo Peggy!
proud to say she was from my adopted home state North Dakota
Have I been here before ? It was 1969...I did it....he snored .....it's never changed....now...I'm 70...it's 2019...
As time passes by the window of our eyes. It's 2019 outside, but in some room it's 69 playing over and over.
Just 'discovered' this wonderful song, via a cover from the great Debbie Harry and Billie Eilish. Unexpected collaboration, but a wonderful tribute to Peggy Lee's original.