At Last (Cyndi Lauper album)

At Last is a Grammy Award-nominated 2003 album by Cyndi Lauper. It made the top 40 of the album charts in both the US and Australia. The album features a duet with Tony Bennett on "Makin' Whoopee". Lauper co-produced the album with Russ Titelman. The album consists of a collection of cover versions of jazz standards songs, in addition to a cover of a contemporary song, re-arranged into a Jazz song.

The US long box was available only at Costco or Sam's Club shops within the first two weeks when it was released. The song "Walk on By" was #15 in Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play and the S.A.F. and Eddie X Mixes version hit the same chart at #10. The album has sold 276,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Track listing

1. "At Last" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) – 2:42
2. "Walk on By" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 4:32
3. "Stay" (Maurice Williams) – 3:13
4. "La Vie en Rose" (Mack David, Louis Guglielmi, Édith Piaf) – 3:34
5. "Unchained Melody" (Alex North, Hy Zaret) – 4:27
6. "If You Go Away" (Jacques Brel, Rod McKuen) – 4:28
7. "Until You Come Back to Me" (Morris Broadnax, Clarence Paul, Stevie Wonder) – 4:39
8. "My Baby Just Cares for Me" (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) – 2:37
9. "Makin' Whoopee" (Donaldson, Kahn) – 4:13 (duet with Tony Bennett)
10. "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" (Bennie Benjamin, Gloria Caldwell, Sol Marcus) – 3:38
11. "You've Really Got a Hold on Me" (Smokey Robinson) – 4:03
12. "Hymn to Love" (Marguerite Monnot, Eddie Constantine) – 3:33
13. "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 4:05

Original performer

• "At Last" by Ray Eberle and Pat Friday (1961)
• "Walk on By" by Dionne Warwick (1960)
• "Stay" by Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs (1960)
• "La Vie en Rose" by Édith Piaf (1946)
• "Unchained Melody" by The Righteous Brothers (1965)
• "If You Go Away" (English version of "Ne Me Quitte Pas")
• "Until You Come Back to Me" by Aretha Franklin (1973)
• "My Baby Just Cares for Me" by Nina Simone (1958)
• "Makin' Whoopee" (1928)
• "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" by Nina Simone (1964)
• "You've Really Got a Hold on Me" by The Miracles (1962)
• "Hymne à l'amour|Hymn to Love" by Édith Piaf (1950)
• "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (1930)

Chart performance

Personnel

• Produced by Russ Titelman, Cyndi Lauper
• Additional engineer: Steve Gaboury
• Mixed by William Wittman, Russ Titelman
• Mix assistant: George Fullan
• Assistant engineer: Sharon Tucker, Peter Doris, Tim Stritmater, Brian Dozoretz, Jason Finkel, Elizabeth Collins, Kurt Marks
• Production manager and contractor: Jill Dell'Abate
• Mastered by Ted Jensen, Ryan Smith
• Management: Lisa Barbaris
• A&R: David Massey
• A&R coordinator: Evan L

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