I remember there was a blooper where some announcer called her “Leggy Pee”.
I believe I bought the single in 1967. Solid tune, definitely imbued with languorous sensuality.
Yup,great,great song.
“Is That All There Is?”
I remember saying those same words when I heard the first Beatles song (I want to hold your hand). Her song came out years later.
I was one of the few students in High School who was not engrossed by The Beatles.
I remember when this song, “Is That All There is?” came out. Everyone I knew hated it. Even my parents who were both Peggy Lee fans hated it. Mom would turn the radio off when it came on.
The film “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They” came out about the same time. The entertainment industry was getting into a dark mood.
Folks on the Hill. Peggy Lee
Most depressing song I ever heard.
I liked and understood this song the first time I heard it, summer of 1969. I was in Junior High.
Some people didn’t want to hear it for a long while.
Maybe because for the last few years, some of the Top 10 songs had melancholy themes: 1967; Ode To Billie Joe by Bobby Gentry
1968; Honey by Bobby Goldsborough.
*Is That All There Is was inspired by a short story by
German Novelist Thomas Mann “Disillusionment”.
I have read one, maybe two of Mann’s books.
Difficult reading. Each sentence jam packed with information, both said and left unsaid.