The song "At Last"

Garry Pugh · Post by **Garry Pugh** » 2 Oct 2000 6:24 am

I need to learn a song called "At Last". I've heard Ray Charles do it but I need to find country recording of this tune done by a female artist. It seems to me Patsy Cline did it but I'm certainly no authority.

It's sounds real "50ish", 1, 6m, 4, 5. The person I need to learn it for sang it to me over the phone and I think those are the primary changes, at least on the verse, but I'd really like to find a recording on it.

Any help would be appreciated.

Matt Hutchinson · Post by **Matt Hutchinson** » 2 Oct 2000 7:35 am

Click here for AMG's list of who's recorded the song
http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=HAT|LAST

hope it helps.
Matt

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Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 2 Oct 2000 7:40 am

I always hear Etta James in my head when someone mentions that song. Her version rules!

Dayna Wills · Post by **Dayna Wills** » 4 Oct 2000 6:12 am

Bobby Lee,
I agree with you about the Etta James' version, but Gene Watson's version was pretty good, too.

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BJ Bailey · Post by **BJ Bailey** » 4 Oct 2000 11:31 am

Gene Watson's version was the best,But then I am a Gene Watson Fan and think he deserve's more reconizeion than what he gets.
But he just wa'nt bow to the bean pushers

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[This message was edited by BJ Bailey on 04 October 2000 at 08:21 PM.]

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 4 Oct 2000 2:06 pm

I think the Etta James version was the biggest hit, after Glenn Miller.

Jon Light (deceased) · Post by **Jon Light (deceased)** » 4 Oct 2000 2:32 pm

A car commercial used this a couple of years ago. I think it was the Etta James version. With the unison and octave strings after the line "and life is like a song". One of the few ads that stopped me in my tracks.

Tim Rowley · Post by **Tim Rowley** » 4 Oct 2000 7:14 pm

IMHO, Etta James has the definitive version of "At Last" and Gene Watson's version runs a close second. Somebody said you can't out-soul Ray Charles but Etta's version tops the others in my book. Etta James has such incredible control of her breathing technique, tone, dynamics, and diction, ain't nobody gonna even come close to her voice. When she sings, it's soul, country, blues, pop, gospel, the whole package all in one chunk. BTW, does everybody out there realize her biological daddy was Minnesota Fats, the billiard wizard? Well it's true according to Jamesetta herself! Tim R.

Dayna Wills · Post by **Dayna Wills** » 4 Oct 2000 9:58 pm

I once danced with Minn. Fats in Carterville, ILL. I remember he used a stamp to sign autographs with. He came across on TV as some rough, gruff kinda guy, but in person he was a pussycat. And a gentleman.

Smiley Roberts · Post by **Smiley Roberts** » 5 Oct 2000 12:29 am

Etta rules,on this song.

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Al Marcus · Post by **Al Marcus** » 5 Oct 2000 9:15 pm

My wife Lorraine, has a CD by Lou Rawls with "At last " on it. I used to play that along with other old standards, on my 8 string 6 pedal Gibson Electra-Harp, right after WWII , when I got my discharge.(ruptured duck)(wwII guys know what that is).....al