"That's All" -The Song but not the blog: Another example of just one single great song . It was written in 1952. " That's All" with music by Bob Haymes ( brother of the fine baritone singer Dick Haymes) and words by Alan Brandt .Written as a stand alone pop song, it became an immediate standard sung by Nat " King" Cole with Nelson Riddle as his new arranger.
Alec Wilder has lauded it as " one of the last free-flowing, native and natural melodies in the grand pop style. It's one of the warmest, most natural, and least " studied" songs" that Wilder said that he knew. Quite a compliment from Wilder who looked at more than 17,000 popular songs when writing his encyclopedic analysis of American Popular Song in 1973.
Nat Cole's version made an instant standard of the song which will already be familiar to most adult listeners. However, there is a different version by Sinatra that is more contemplative and less certain than what Cole conveyed with his warm, easy conversational style. Again, it proves the point that a great song can be treated in a number of different ways and styles and will always be able to atract new performances and ensure that the " torch" is based down from generation to generation of both singers and instrumentalist.
Nat Cole with Riddle and Sinatra with a superior Don Costa arangement-They're both great performances and worth attentive listening.
LINK SINATRA: http://youtu.be/SINfqtCq0lY
LINK COLE http://youtu.be/sooSaQpGnMM
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