At Last!

Etta James
Label: Mca
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Audio CD
Release date:27th July 1999

Original recording remastered ^{Audio CD}	$3.88

Original recording remastered ^{Audio CD}

$3.88

Track Listing

1. Anything to Say You're Mine
2. My Dearest Darling
3. Trust in Me Lyrics
4. Sunday Kind of Love Lyrics
5. Tough Mary
6. I Just Want to Make Love to You Lyrics
7. At Last Lyrics
8. All I Could Do Was Cry Lyrics
9. Stormy Weather Lyrics
10. Girl of My Dreams Lyrics
11. My Heart Cries [Duet with Harvery Fuqua] - Harvey Fuqua, Etta James
12. Spoonful [Duet with Harvery Fuqua][*] - Harvey Fuqua, Etta James Lyrics
13. It's a Crying Shame [Duet with Harvery Fuqua][*] - Harvey Fuqua, Etta James
14. If I Can't Have You [Duet with Harvery Fuqua][*] - Harvey Fuqua, Etta James Lyrics

Album Description

Etta James, At Last!

Amazon.com essential recording

This is Etta James's first full-length album, recorded for Chess Records' Argo subsidiary in 1960. It taps all aspects of her then-blossoming talent. There's the crooning rock ballad "My Dearest Darling" and the elegantly symphonic "Sunday Kind of Love." Her classic, brokenhearted "All I Could Do Was Cry" follows the sweet title track and the bawdy blues stomper "I Just Want to Make Love to You." And there's a version of Harold Arlen's "Stormy Weather," which Lena Horne made famous. James's fine way with such a wide embrace of material wouldn't again be this well displayed on a single album until she was united with producer Jerry Wexler for 1977's Deep in the Night. --Ted Drozdowski

Amazon.com

The R&B queen's classic collection is augmented this time around by a long-overdue digital remastering, plus a few bonus tracks, presumably for those who found the original album a little on the brief side. In addition to James's well-known hits, including "I Just Want to Make Love to You" and "Stormy Weather," there are four additional songs: "My Heart Cries," "Spoonful," "It's a Crying Shame," and "If I Can't Have You." Although one might cynically suggest that these were added to give Etta fans something to purchase besides The Essential Etta James, it's definitely true that these tracks are worth hearing. --Genevieve Williams

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