My partner was a big fan of Ms. Lee that he sent her flowers when she was performing in San Francisco at the Fairmount. She was so gracious for the flowers and gave him tickets to see her show and he got to meet her after the performance. My partner passed away from AIDS and I was so grateful to Ms. Lee to give him opportunity to me her. Every time I hear Ms. Lee brings me back to that time to a happy and sad time in my life.
Thank you for your loving & thoughtful sharing of your beautiful memory of meeting Peggy Lee & her total empathy for you both. Such sharings are so much needed in this world, in this life. You got to live out a dream & expressed your gratitude with much kindness.
The older one gets, the more you understand this song. The fear of pain and horror....and it's the fear that is is the most dreaded. Because after it's all done....is that all there is ?
For some of us this is absolute truth. Had I only understood this when I was young my pain wouldn’t be so sharp as it is today. I was once so young as to be hopeful.
i feel that this song can be interpreted as being about not letting fear of death and pain and heartbreak stop you from living, and instead finding meaning in 'all that there is'.
That's really funny paulo. On New Years Eve my mom and dad would always go out with friends. Before he left he would always to us kids, "see you next year."🥳
I always end up bawling when I watch this. My mom was the same age as Peggy Lee, and lived an unhappy life. When this song came on the radio in 1969, my mom always became very angry. She didn't want to believe that that's all there is, but the reality is, that's all there was - my mom's life didn't get better. She deserved better, and didn't get it.
God, I’m So sorry to hear about your mom and her suffering,, My Dad and I used to listen to Peggy Lee, especially this song, he passed away from alcoholism 😢 We were Very close
@@glendahalpert6590 Thanks for the thoughts. My mom also fell into heavy alcoholism, and it was a major factor in her demise. She suffered a massive hemorrhagic stroke at age 64, and lived nearly all the next six years in nursing homes before dying a few months after turning age 70. Above I said that she lived an unhappy life, but it only became unhappy when the wheels came off my parents' marriage in the late 1950s.
She is the real deal. She sings with a kind of deadpan expression at times, and yet communicates brilliantly. Her velvet voice, her intelligence, her nuance. She really is magic.
As a dumb teenager in '69 we used to make fun of the song as we were rock 'n rollers then. Funny how you change over time and now I think it's a great song. Love Sinatra too. :-)
Very good description of Peggy, especially as relates to her intelligence. I'll bet even God gives her an audience from time to time. Hope you're having a ball in Heaven (and that goes for one of her ardent fans, Betty Daum). R.I.P., to both of these ladies.
Never screamed. Never busted a blood vessel trying to sing as loud as possible. No histrionics, no nudity or vulgarity...and Peggy Lee makes more of a lasting impact with almost a whisper than all the screechers combined. Gosh she was good.
When I was 8 years old, I heard Peggy Lee sing this song on the Ed Sullivan Show, and I remember understanding and relating totally. I knew it was my song. I'm 68 now, and it's still my song. End it all? I think of ending it all every day. Can I bear the final disappointment? Miss Lee claimed it was not a sad song. Wow. It's heartbreaking! But hey, let's break out the booze and have a ball, huh? Yeah, let's.
@marinaanais I understand the voices that tell you this, they have been there my entire life. Do not listen to them. Find your passion and purpose. Consider medication, it really helped me quiet those voices. And ask yourself, what would Peggy do?
Dear one. We are all here for a purpose. To find out 'what all this is' you have to seek God your Father and Creator. I saw my life in the Bible. It's given me a purpose. (still tough sometimes) It will speak to you too.
A wildly improbable triumph of a song, and the singer herself. It makes more and more sense the more you listen to it, and Peggy Lee's true, indomitable artistry and sense of time is unmatched. There was never a better "conversational" singer.
My sister, Rachel, after being diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer, aged 64, used to spend some weekends with me and my husband. One morning during breakfast, she took out her phone and played this song, I was shocked, but it is only now, 10 months later since she died that I understand what she was trying to convey to us. I play this video over and over.
Now Rachel knows that that's not all there is, after all. It never was all that there is but we mortals are so incapable of seeing how things really are. I hope you and your husband are hopeful and wise. God bless you. (from a well wisher in London)
Solomon once said that everything is meaningless. And I must tell you, without God, it all is. Nothing matters. Nothing will fulfill. Nothing means anything. But oh, with Jesus, everything means something.
Always loved this song. To me, it's about life and society telling you what's important and what's great, but this girl wasn't fooled, she thought for herself and realized that it was up to her to figure out what's important and great and what's not.
Your comment made me smile sir. Not "i heard a joke" smile. More like "i understand every letter of that comment very deeply and personally" smile. And that a smile i get very rarely these days. Thanks.
No matter what life hands you, keep a POSITIVE attitude! Life should be 5% the facts of what occurs[good and bad] and 95%YOUR POSITIVE ATTITUDE and the actions you take! Cherish each and every day like a DIAMOND and do your best to help other people,especially those who are less fortunate than you are."Peggy Lee &Albert Camus"
Today this song is ringing in my ear. My grandmother used to sing it in her mid 60's. Now in my mid-60s, I finally understand the words:-) Is that all there is?
My mother loved this song..she died in 1997..my son was talking about something..and he said..is that all there is..and boom I was back in 1969..just like that..
One of my Dad's favorite songs. Born on the lower West Side in "Hell's Kitchen" in 1919, when it was truly Hell, he passed in 1989. He moved to Newark, NJ in the early 50's when he married my Mom & raised 5 sons (I'm 4th of 5). He was a man of his time: WW2 Navy vet, strong, silent, handsome & "oddly" generous, since he grew up with so little. I was with him when he passed, along with my Mom & hospice... I was in my 20's... I'll never forget that day or my great Dad💔
My mother used to love this song and that's what every minds me of when she was a bartender what she's done many jobs well Timex watch fuses in the Vietnam war she worked on the assembly lines and she's done a lot of different jobs waitressing but I remember this song for my mother would love this song I remember
By 1969 it was deep into the rock era and some thought Peggy was a relic from the past but them she came back on the scene and had this great tune at her very young age of 49. And then earlier in the year 57 year old Perry Como had a hit with "Seattle". Never count anyone out. Peggy reached #11 with this one. Amazing singer and actress as well.
I recall it was about '52. I was a busboy at Sahati's Stateline Country Club, So. Tahoe. Ms. Lee was performing there, the busboys were all entranced with this magnificent creature. One night we were across the street at the bar at Harvey's. She entered, the bar hushed and one of the busboys (normally a quiet mannered kid, but with a few beers under his belt) jumped up and shouted, "Well, I'll be damned, it's PEGGY LEE!". Those, indeed, were the days.
Dan Schell I was born in august ‘52, worked at both Harvey’s & Sahara Del Webb / High Sierra hotels, & I’m reading this now in November 2019. Life is amazing. Nice story, Dan.
It's probably a good thing I didn't hear this song when I was a child; it would have haunted me to the point of obsession. Last night, I played it over and over again until all my depths had been explored and my tears shed. Best sleep I had in months.
Glad is was cathartic for you. My mother HATED this song, and she was not a person inclined to hate anything. She thought it was a quick, one-way trip into depression.
After the madness of everything up to that point, and afterward, it was like an oasis or the center of a storm, just a brief few minutes of peace. Once in awhile you run into one.
Love the film, love the song and love, Peggy Lee. 👏👏👏👍 This song and Teri Garr's beehive hairdo and her jamming to The Monkees, are reasons enough to dig Scorseses' offbeat comedy!😂
So true, have as much fun as you can because that really is all there is. I don't mean to suggest that people should be hedonistic but just enjoy life and be kind.
its funny......how one feels about books and movies and art and songs ..... you remember how you felt that first time..... in your teens or 20s etc....then go back and look again and hear again in your 20s...your 30s .........your 80s LOL.....how you change and think differently in regards to songs and art etc.
That smokey, sultry voice sends shivers down my spine. It's like when someone whispers sweet nothing with their lips pressed to your neck. Ms. Lee will never be replaced. Once in a lifetime is the world blessed with a person like her.
And, isn't that all there is? This came out in 1969. Lots of crap going on in the country then. But really, I looked forward no being lonely (12 years old), and I'm still lonely (62). Sucks for some, not for the chosen
So choose yourself Diana, don't wait for some nameless force to choose you. Better the devil you know, right? Have a read of listen little man by Wilhelm Reich, you can read a portion of it for free at listenlittleman . com There's wisdom there that might help you.
I love this song. This song is one that keep me from ending it all after a bad break up. I have had many disappointments in life. But like Peggy I'm not ready for that Final disappointment.
Driving away from Memphis on my Honeymoon with my beloved wife (1969) This was magical...headed into the darkness after a wonderful dinner at Embers in Memphis...With rice in our hair...Now, she has been gone for now 15 years,...And I know about that final, devastating disappointment. Sometimes, That is ALL that there is. Cherish the ones that you love, because you never know what is just around the corner.
I was 21 in 1969. My dad was a big fan of Peggy and had been since the ‘40s, but in those heady days of the swinging ‘60sI didn’t get it. It’s 2023 and I’m 76. I get it now.
That song, Bonnie and Clyde and Winchester Cathedral all creeped the hk out of me as a 5/6 yr old. Didn’t know what any of them meant but the chord progressions drew me in and helped to create this overly serious melancholy artist I am today. Even now as I write this I haven’t heard these songs in years but now I just have to. Thanks😒!
@@marjol3in oh, no. We broke up after three years, because she needed therapy, but just used pot to mask CPTSD from her awful stepfamily. I didn't think that was a good longterm plan, just smoking pot daily to keep the monsters at bay... I told her so, and she snarled at me that it was over, smashed some stuff, stole my last few bucks, said I was a POS, and that ended it. I decided that if you can't be kind, be gone. She left.
My 50ish yr. old friend sent me this to watch some years ago when i was about 18. He said i could never be sad or stressed because Ms. Peggy Lee's entire house burnt down and she wasnt. I never really understood the song. Im 23 now and i think im learning to understand it
I am a 32 year old Black man from the DMV seeing this for the first time. I was saying "Wow...........wow..............wow" for the whole 4 minutes and 38 seconds! 🔥👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I always admired Miss Peggy Lee for insisting and insisting and insisting Capitol release this song which she knew would result in a profound moment in her already long and remarkable career. The label finally gave in, pressing the minimum number of copies allowable, and just as Peg envisioned, the record climbed right onto the pop charts, went all the way to #13 and won Peggy Lee a far overdue Grammy award.
Mark Farnaway No, just different, The music industry has always had to be dragged kicking and screaming to a new style, or unique way of doing things. Then, when the inevitable happens and it succeeds, they all quickly jump on the bandwagon like they knew it would all along….
Sounds right. Capital records also were reluctant to release The Beatles' Hey Jude. They complained about the length. Talk about bozos whom haven't got a clue. Glad Peggy got the grammy. About time!
She really just wanted to grow old with someone 💔Her Father was an alcoholic and her Stepmother hit her over the head with a frying pan.She finally escaped by getting into showbusiness.
Peggy Lee was the perfect messenger. Without a whisper, a loud word or scream. She delivered this song. As if delivering egg shells to a 2 year old child. Not a crack, nor scratch. I was busy listening to rock. I missed the greatest show on earth. My mistake
I think that I will have this song played at my funeral. It really strips life down to the bare minimum, doesn't it ? Life let's you down. Love lets you down. Even death will let you down. Merry Christmas !
@@iancopestick6757 I really hope you find excitement and joy! I know it can be hard. I have lived with depression since I was a child,. It is just the way my brain is made. I am 55 and recently started feeling less numb. I will keep you in my thoughts.
Ian, It depends how you look at life. Life has its ups and downs, but if you are a positive person look at the good and ignore the bad. God bless you. You seem to be feeling good, part of you any ways. Merry Christmas to you. This part.
I remember sitting at the kitchen table one summer with my aunt after she would come home from work and she'd pour herself a stiff drink and we'd play this song over and over and laugh and enjoy each others company...her late 60's... me 14 years old...those were the good old days😏 here's to you aunt Virgie🍸
I was 21 when I heard this song. I was searching for a reason to justify this world I lived in. I use to hear this song and it was exactly how I felt except I didn't feel any joy in going dancing and kicking up my heels. I was so disappointed with life and I had no security. I was making lots of money, I had lots of diamonds, beautiful clothes and a Cadillac, but I was so sad. I had met people in our government who were corrupt and I couldn't find anything that was of value or genuine. No one knew what real love was, as I imagined it. Then I met Jesus. End of Story. I am 75 years old now. I have had disappointments, and wonderful times... still His love is constant, pure and faithful. He has always loved and provided help in time of need and never, never, never has he failed me. He makes my life worth living. 🥰👑✝️🕊💞
I heard it in 69 at about 17, I got it then but not as viscerally as I do now as nearly 70. She is telling live has it's ups and downs, rarely meets expectations, but it's the only game in town, so enjoy it.
For those who feel life owes them something special - this is their song . For those that believe life is something of an opportunity , something , a chance to make something special of - this song is a song of apathy . Peggy Lee makes you decide which way your gonna pick .Hauntingly performed as much as your choice haunts you . Thank you Peggy Lee .
Not at all. I know that life will never give anyone anything special. The only thing we've got is that we're all going to die disappointed. That's why this song is so good.
@@iancopestick6757 I think the song will be interpreted by each individual depending on how they feel. Some will see it as a song sang by a woman that always wanted something drastic to have more impact and others may see it as those challenges in life were not challenging enough to a strong person or even that she has always been in a state of not caring about anything, even death. Others might see it as just sarcasm.
that is one interpretation. but i see it so differently - i see it as an acknowledgement of the contradictions in life, the insignificance of each one of us ultimately, but also a celebration of each of us, of life and feelings and love and dance.. ahh it is all wrapped up and twisted and sad and... just lovely. every few years i revisit it and see something different as i go through the stages in my life, too. just wonderful.
Terrific. Peggy Lee is one of those artists whose talent and skill can't be described... But she was simply sublime. A friend told me about her, I didn't get her at first but I listened, watched and listened again. Now Peggy Lee is under my skin, she had expression and sincerity.
Wow....can't believe you've never heard Ms. Lee's music before. You must be really young. Peggy Lee is one of the greatest. I so wish I would've been part of that generation. :(
I never heard of her either until the movie "Beach Bum" came out. They played this song in the movie and I liked it so much I just had to research it to find it on youtube. Now I know who she is and she is certainly talented with a lot of wisdom.
She is my favorite singer, even though I am from Russia, but in her I recognize myself precisely in those life difficulties that she had. I will definitely go to Westwood Cemetery in Los Angeles to give flowers to my favorite jazz artist. Her songs have always inspired me and inspire me to live, it's a pity that I didn't find her alive, I would so like to ask her and talk to her...but, unfortunately, I was born shortly before her death in 2000, and she died in 2001, she lives in our hearts and souls, rest in peace, Peggy, thank you very much for your eternal creativity, which continues to live. 😞❤❤❤❤❤
@@kyrstenwinterlake549 Thank you, I will definitely go to Los Angeles and lay flowers on her grave and post a minute of silence in her honor. I love jazz, but her songs are the ones I remember the most and are etched into my memory and they help me live.
My partner was a big fan of Ms. Lee that he sent her flowers when she was performing in San Francisco at the Fairmount. She was so gracious for the flowers and gave him tickets to see her show and he got to meet her after the performance. My partner passed away from AIDS and I was so grateful to Ms. Lee to give him opportunity to me her. Every time I hear Ms. Lee brings me back to that time to a happy and sad time in my life.
It must have been the wonderful Venetian Room. My Dad worked at the Fairmont Hotel for Mr. Swig who owned the hotel.
That’s beautiful
Thank you for your loving & thoughtful sharing of your beautiful memory of meeting Peggy Lee & her total empathy for you both. Such sharings are so much needed in this world, in this life. You got to live out a dream & expressed your gratitude with much kindness.
What a beautiful but tragic story 💐 May your partner live long in loving memory
YEP SHE WAS SO COOL & NICE TO ME WHEN I OPENED FOR HER...JACK ENGLISH WEHO 11/2021...
The older one gets, the more you understand this song. The fear of pain and horror....and it's the fear that is is the most dreaded. Because after it's all done....is that all there is ?
For some of us this is absolute truth. Had I only understood this when I was young my pain wouldn’t be so sharp as it is today. I was once so young as to be hopeful.
Peggy Lee says it all
i feel that this song can be interpreted as being about not letting fear of death and pain and heartbreak stop you from living, and instead finding meaning in 'all that there is'.
@@susanwoehler-hamilton8806 so true
no...the song is about keep findinh new meanings...keep searching and don't break out booze yet
My dear departed Dad always played this when we were done opening presents 🎁 on Xmas morning 🎄
I love this so much! Going to steal this move. ❤
How appropriate
That’s hilarious! He must have had a great sense of humor.
That's really funny paulo. On New Years Eve my mom and dad would always go out with friends. Before he left he would always to us kids, "see you next year."🥳
awwww❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Really loved her. Always loved this song. Now that I am 81 years old I more than love it I feel it.
Are you still there? I have the urge to know you and talk to you if that’s okay? I want to know what else you love. What you’ve been through.
The song I want played at my funeral.
B R A V O
Y E S Y E S
omg, she is magnificent
I always end up bawling when I watch this. My mom was the same age as Peggy Lee, and lived an unhappy life. When this song came on the radio in 1969, my mom always became very angry. She didn't want to believe that that's all there is, but the reality is, that's all there was - my mom's life didn't get better. She deserved better, and didn't get it.
😥🧡🕊
God, I’m So sorry to hear about your mom and her suffering,,
My Dad and I used to listen to Peggy Lee, especially this song, he passed away from alcoholism 😢
We were Very close
@@glendahalpert6590 Thanks for the thoughts. My mom also fell into heavy alcoholism, and it was a major factor in her demise. She suffered a massive hemorrhagic stroke at age 64, and lived nearly all the next six years in nursing homes before dying a few months after turning age 70. Above I said that she lived an unhappy life, but it only became unhappy when the wheels came off my parents' marriage in the late 1950s.
Lou, Sorry to hear that but rest assured she must be in heaven as the earth was a nightmare to her. God Bless you.
I'm so sorry
Lost my husband 17years ago, he was still a young man, miss him so very much.💜
RIP to him. Wish you comfort & love.😊
May the good Lord bless and comfort you.
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@@doctorPaule ♥️
Who is watching in 2024 🥹? I read a book and it brought me here ….
its in beach bum lol and honestly beautiful song
I watch this video often, not that applies to me but love the songand the performance
@voiceofniah Which book was it? Philipp Weiss' book Terrain vague by Jona Jonas 2018 brought me here, over pj Harvey 🎉
HARD TO BELIEVE YOU ACTUALLY READ A BOOK.
@@RaymondStpierre-lv3je yeah, the book is THE POWER OF SELF CONFIDENCE 😁by Brian Tracy
So wonderful. Back when America had class and reverence.
She is the real deal. She sings with a kind of deadpan expression at times, and yet communicates brilliantly. Her velvet voice, her intelligence, her nuance. She really is magic.
Well said my Friend.What a voice and Entertainer.
As a dumb teenager in '69 we used to make fun of the song as we were rock 'n rollers then. Funny how you change over time and now I think it's a great song. Love Sinatra too. :-)
Very good description of Peggy, especially as relates to her intelligence. I'll bet even God gives her an audience from time to time. Hope you're having a ball in Heaven (and that goes for one of her ardent fans, Betty Daum). R.I.P., to both of these ladies.
Why does someone like her have to leave us. What’s it’s all about. Life.
🌠She's a _S T A R🌠_
Never screamed. Never busted a blood vessel trying to sing as loud as possible. No histrionics, no nudity or vulgarity...and Peggy Lee makes more of a lasting impact with almost a whisper than all the screechers combined. Gosh she was good.
And no vocal fry like most American women speakers since 2005.
I agree 100%.
めちゃくちゃわかる
💯
Great storytelling. It reminds me of the storytelling of the late Marlena Shaw in “Go Away, Little Boy” albeit different.
Just 23 and I feel each word of this song speaking directly to me...
The most classic Existential Song of all-time....well until 2024 that is!
When I was 8 years old, I heard Peggy Lee sing this song on the Ed Sullivan Show, and I remember understanding and relating totally. I knew it was my song. I'm 68 now, and it's still my song. End it all? I think of ending it all every day. Can I bear the final disappointment? Miss Lee claimed it was not a sad song. Wow. It's heartbreaking! But hey, let's break out the booze and have a ball, huh? Yeah, let's.
@marinaanais I understand the voices that tell you this, they have been there my entire life. Do not listen to them. Find your passion and purpose. Consider medication, it really helped me quiet those voices. And ask yourself, what would Peggy do?
Dear one. We are all here for a purpose. To find out 'what all this is' you have to seek God
your Father and Creator. I saw my life in the Bible. It's given me a purpose. (still tough sometimes) It will speak to you too.
Yup.
A wildly improbable triumph of a song, and the singer herself. It makes more and more sense the more you listen to it, and Peggy Lee's true, indomitable artistry and sense of time is unmatched. There was never a better "conversational" singer.
Love her voice and style...she never "over sang" a song...just that pure beautiful voice and perfect tone and pitch.
Not bad 4 a North Dakota gal.
Heidi Heidkamp would be proud
Something so simple ..so lovely,.
Unique, and uniquely special, Peggy Lee - I got here from a DE forum on Brexit. She was popular in the UK too.
Something about this song gets me I can't explain it but I could listen to this over and over.
It's how I feel about life.
I heard it on the radio for the first time today. I love it ❤
1969.
College.
Driving home.
Listening to this song.
In my 1956 Buick.
Same here. U of Cincinnati, Dad's Pontiac Tempest.
What a great memory to have ..... a buick, a buck, and peggy on the radio🎉
PEGGY LEE - THREE WORDS DESCRIBE HER: CLASS-CLASS-CLASS !!!
Possibly the best song ever written about the human condition . Just simply wonderfully amazing. My heart beat like a clock the first time I heard it.
I agree totally
60bpm is good
I love this song too. It is AMAZING.
@nne 😊
It has some kind of magic. I love it.
right there with ya...
My sister, Rachel, after being diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer, aged 64, used to spend some weekends with me and my husband. One morning during breakfast, she took out her phone and played this song, I was shocked, but it is only now, 10 months later since she died that I understand what she was trying to convey to us. I play this video over and over.
Berry Noctor your story is beautiful my mother's gone now but the same fleeting we are
Now Rachel knows that that's not all there is, after all. It never was all that there is but we mortals are so incapable of seeing how things really are. I hope you and your husband are hopeful and wise. God bless you. (from a well wisher in London)
😇
Solomon once said that everything is meaningless. And I must tell you, without God, it all is. Nothing matters. Nothing will fulfill. Nothing means anything. But oh, with Jesus, everything means something.
I sincerely hope you've found peace ....
The beautiful and talented Peggy Lee... such a sultry voice... great talent. The entertainment world misses you tremendously.
Beautiful ....
Sultry. Powerful. Genuine. Sad yet real. Peggy Lee was a classic.
To my mother.. who loved this so much we kept our promise to play it at her wake... Love you mom. Miss you ....
A great song at a funeral your mum had great taste with a twist of humour, may she r.i.p
She was TRUE original. Her performance of this is FABULOUS ❗
No smoke & mirrors needed, just pure talent.
Always loved this song. To me, it's about life and society telling you what's important and what's great, but this girl wasn't fooled, she thought for herself and realized that it was up to her to figure out what's important and great and what's not.
Brilliant comment!
Absolutely😂
I think this must be the greatest, saddest and most misanthropic song ever..
Needless to say,I love it.
Misanthropic?
This is my favorite song of all time. Not kidding. She was great and the sentiment... the philosophy, I love it. It hurts so good.
Memento mori.
Your comment made me smile sir. Not "i heard a joke" smile. More like "i understand every letter of that comment very deeply and personally" smile. And that a smile i get very rarely these days. Thanks.
Bang on Paddy. Bang on... xxx ;-)
@@alpha1dcd For my funeral
No matter what life hands you, keep a POSITIVE attitude! Life should be 5% the facts of what occurs[good and bad] and 95%YOUR POSITIVE ATTITUDE and the actions you take! Cherish each and every day like a DIAMOND and do your best to help other people,especially those who are less fortunate than you are."Peggy Lee &Albert Camus"
Today this song is ringing in my ear. My grandmother used to sing it in her mid 60's. Now in my mid-60s, I finally understand the words:-)
Is that all there is?
Unlike most of today's female singers, Peggy never over sings the song. Such a talent! Love her!
I could not have said that better❤
Agreed... I think for comparison/example that Adele is the total "oversinger"... Painfully drowning in self-pity...
No "look at me" warbling that Whitney Houston started...
It’s all in the swing. She makes it look easy, it’s not!
So true.
My mother loved this song..she died in 1997..my son was talking about something..and he said..is that all there is..and boom I was back in 1969..just like that..
One of my Dad's favorite songs. Born on the lower West Side in "Hell's Kitchen" in 1919, when it was truly Hell, he passed in 1989. He moved to Newark, NJ in the early 50's when he married my Mom & raised 5 sons (I'm 4th of 5). He was a man of his time: WW2 Navy vet, strong, silent, handsome & "oddly" generous, since he grew up with so little. I was with him when he passed, along with my Mom & hospice... I was in my 20's... I'll never forget that day or my great Dad💔
RIP to your dad.
Comfort to you.❤😊
My mother used to love this song and that's what every minds me of when she was a bartender what she's done many jobs well Timex watch fuses in the Vietnam war she worked on the assembly lines and she's done a lot of different jobs waitressing but I remember this song for my mother would love this song I remember
By 1969 it was deep into the rock era and some thought Peggy was a relic from the past but them she came back on the scene and had this great tune at her very young age of 49. And then earlier in the year 57 year old Perry Como had a hit with "Seattle". Never count anyone out. Peggy reached #11 with this one. Amazing singer and actress as well.
She's such a perfect combination between class, coolness, and wittiness.
Man this is so it
Hello
Glad to know we're obsessed with the same things at the same time
it’s garrett!!!!
Known world wide with talent beyond compare. RIP PL
oh word a man of taste
I was feeling guilty for enjoying my nightly cocktail..then I remembered....is that all there is?....
Remember, keep on 💃 🎶
I recall it was about '52. I was a busboy at Sahati's Stateline Country Club, So. Tahoe. Ms. Lee was performing there, the busboys were all entranced with this magnificent creature. One night we were across the street at the bar at Harvey's. She entered, the bar hushed and one of the busboys (normally a quiet mannered kid, but with a few beers under his belt) jumped up and shouted, "Well, I'll be damned, it's PEGGY LEE!". Those, indeed, were the days.
I bet she loved it.
Awwww Dan......golden.....
Dan Schell I was born in august ‘52, worked at both Harvey’s & Sahara Del Webb / High Sierra hotels, & I’m reading this now in November 2019. Life is amazing. Nice story, Dan.
damn, sounded like a good time to be alive. Wish I could have been born in a generation like that.
Trenton Wells nah, cold war, nuclear bomb tests galore, polluted rivers etc. No wonder people danced and drank a lot to forget
It's probably a good thing I didn't hear this song when I was a child; it would have haunted me to the point of obsession. Last night, I played it over and over again until all my depths had been explored and my tears shed. Best sleep I had in months.
Yoayts ben Yoatys I like your comment
I DID hear it as a child. And it HAS haunted me ever since. I now listen to it periodically because I MUST.
I get this
Glad is was cathartic for you. My mother HATED this song, and she was not a person inclined to hate anything. She thought it was a quick, one-way trip into depression.
I was obsessed with this song as a kid.
My theme song. Is that all there is??? Exactly how I feel at 68.
Are you still there? I have the urge to know you and talk to you if that’s okay? I want to know what else you love. What you’ve been through.
I’m 65 & this has been my theme song for decades. Man, I feel old. I’m ready to fly …
@@meagankendraleal3929I'm here.
THIS audience should have been on their feet!
This song is hauntingly beautiful in after hours
After the madness of everything up to that point, and afterward, it was like an oasis or the center of a storm, just a brief few minutes of peace. Once in awhile you run into one.
Love the film, love the song and love, Peggy Lee. 👏👏👏👍
This song and Teri Garr's beehive hairdo and her jamming to The Monkees, are reasons enough to dig Scorseses' offbeat comedy!😂
Classic flick.
That movie is how I discovered this song and I’ve loved it ever since.
What a difficult song to do with the timing, tempo, and key changes. Genius!! Always my favorite of Peggy's.
Let's share Peggy Lee with this song to all
My mother loved this song. Now I see why. Right on Peggy. The older we get the more meaning this song has!
Yes, my friends, that IS all there is. That is why I keep dancing and having a ball.
Me too!
This will be played at my funeral ugh
Breaking out the Procecco and having a ball!!
So true, have as much fun as you can because that really is all there is. I don't mean to suggest that people should be hedonistic but just enjoy life and be kind.
its funny......how one feels about books and movies and art and songs ..... you remember how you felt that first time..... in your teens or 20s etc....then go back and look again and hear again in your 20s...your 30s .........your 80s LOL.....how you change and think differently in regards to songs and art etc.
That smokey, sultry voice sends shivers down my spine. It's like when someone whispers sweet nothing with their lips pressed to your neck. Ms. Lee will never be replaced. Once in a lifetime is the world blessed with a person like her.
The Ultimate Accompaniment For Severe Depression.
T e x t. To is TT hat. All. There is
Nah man. It's a happy song! Just keep dancing!
Oh no your comment has actually made me rethink about life.
And, isn't that all there is? This came out in 1969. Lots of crap going on in the country then. But really, I looked forward no being lonely (12 years old), and I'm still lonely (62). Sucks for some, not for the chosen
So choose yourself Diana, don't wait for some nameless force to choose you. Better the devil you know, right? Have a read of listen little man by Wilhelm Reich, you can read a portion of it for free at listenlittleman . com
There's wisdom there that might help you.
I love this song. This song is one that keep me from ending it all after a bad break up. I have had many disappointments in life. But like Peggy I'm not ready for that Final disappointment.
Driving away from Memphis on my Honeymoon with my beloved wife (1969) This was magical...headed into the darkness after a wonderful dinner at Embers in Memphis...With rice in our hair...Now, she has been gone for now 15 years,...And I know about that final, devastating disappointment. Sometimes, That is ALL that there is. Cherish the ones that you love, because you never know what is just around the corner.
I've loved this song from the first moment I heard Miss Peggy Lee sing it! I was 17 then and I'm 70 now. And I still ask myself, is that all there is?
I was 21 in 1969. My dad was a big fan of Peggy and had been since the ‘40s, but in those heady days of the swinging ‘60sI didn’t get it. It’s 2023 and I’m 76. I get it now.
This song in 1969 and Mary Hopkin's "Those Were The Days" in 1968 had a profound effect on me in my 18th year. These songs went deep inside me.
I totally agree.. and for myself, I add Look What They've Done With My Song, Ma
“When I Was Seventeen” is still one of my personal favorites and so profound, much like this.
@@ellencarlisle9638 Add in Janis Ian, "At Seventeen".
That song, Bonnie and Clyde and Winchester Cathedral all creeped the hk out of me as a 5/6 yr old. Didn’t know what any of them meant but the chord progressions drew me in and helped to create this overly serious melancholy artist I am today. Even now as I write this I haven’t heard these songs in years but now I just have to. Thanks😒!
My girlfriend played this LP for me in 1989. It's still the best version, 40 years later, after countless covers.
Are you still together with her?
@@marjol3in oh, no. We broke up after three years, because she needed therapy, but just used pot to mask CPTSD from her awful stepfamily. I didn't think that was a good longterm plan, just smoking pot daily to keep the monsters at bay... I told her so, and she snarled at me that it was over, smashed some stuff, stole my last few bucks, said I was a POS, and that ended it.
I decided that if you can't be kind, be gone. She left.
My 50ish yr. old friend sent me this to watch some years ago when i was about 18. He said i could never be sad or stressed because Ms. Peggy Lee's entire house burnt down and she wasnt. I never really understood the song. Im 23 now and i think im learning to understand it
Ouch. And, oh yes. We pick our butts up. We keep going and show Them how that's Done ❤️🕊️
haunting, and beautiful.....
I am a 32 year old Black man from the DMV seeing this for the first time.
I was saying "Wow...........wow..............wow" for the whole 4 minutes and 38 seconds!
🔥👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Wow.
Now that is one stellar performance.
i had the 45., and knew it then at age 10
Grazie per aver scelto QUESTA CANZONE .MI PIACE MOLTO .
It won her the best female pop vocalist, in 1969.
I saw Peggy Lee in Vegas back in the early '70's and that song has been stuck in my head for 50 years!
When talent meant talented.
My dad's favorite singer.
I'm 85 & your playing my favorite song .Thanks Thanks Thanks Peg
I always admired Miss Peggy Lee for insisting and insisting and insisting Capitol release this song which she knew would result in a profound moment in her already long and remarkable career. The label finally gave in, pressing the minimum number of copies allowable, and just as Peg envisioned, the record climbed right onto the pop charts, went all the way to #13 and won Peggy Lee a far overdue Grammy award.
Mark Farnaway No, just different, The music industry has always had to be dragged kicking and screaming to a new style, or unique way of doing things. Then, when the inevitable happens and it succeeds, they all quickly jump on the bandwagon like they knew it would all along….
Wayne Brasler I agree. The Grammy was LONG overdue. Why there weren't more is a mystery to me
Wayne Brasler Lieber and Stoller wrote this song.
Sounds right. Capital records also were reluctant to release The Beatles' Hey Jude. They complained about the length. Talk about bozos whom haven't got a clue.
Glad Peggy got the grammy. About time!
She really just wanted to grow old with someone 💔Her Father was an alcoholic and her Stepmother hit her over the head with a frying pan.She finally escaped by getting into showbusiness.
Classy, sophisticated, beautiful....Peggy Lee.
One of the best female vocalist ever.
IMPRESSIVE
That is a masterpiece performed by one of the greats. I watch it every couple of months.
So do i
Peggy Lee was the perfect messenger. Without a whisper, a loud word or scream. She delivered this song. As if delivering egg shells to a 2 year old child. Not a crack, nor scratch. I was busy listening to rock. I missed the greatest show on earth. My mistake
Fantastic !
Brings back a wonderful memory
Hello Melanie, How are you doing?
I think that I will have this song played at my funeral.
It really strips life down to the bare minimum, doesn't it ?
Life let's you down.
Love lets you down.
Even death will let you down.
Merry Christmas !
If, I was going to have a funeral, I would.
Have you found any happiness and positivity in your life? I sure hope so.
@@gracejones2831 Not really, but I am better now than I was then.
@@iancopestick6757 I really hope you find excitement and joy! I know it can be hard. I have lived with depression since I was a child,. It is just the way my brain is made. I am 55 and recently started feeling less numb. I will keep you in my thoughts.
Ian, It depends how you look at life. Life has its ups and downs, but if you are a positive person look at the good and ignore the bad. God bless you. You seem to be feeling good, part of you any ways. Merry Christmas to you. This part.
I remember sitting at the kitchen table one summer with my aunt after she would come home from work and she'd pour herself a stiff drink and we'd play this song over and over and laugh and enjoy each others company...her late 60's... me 14 years old...those were the good old days😏 here's to you aunt Virgie🍸
That is a lovely memory. I can picture it clearly. Thanks for sharing.
I LOVE that!! Thank you for sharing!!! What a Beautiful time!!!!!!!
Life is short, what an American Gem. More than just a singer, a story teller too! Love this song.😅
Genius of her sort. A life-affirming song for me. The calm viewpoint of the spirit.
I could listen to Peggy Lee sing this song a million times or more. What an amazing lyric!
A panoramic view of life filled with joys and sorrows...
Let's dance and enjoy till the last breath...
I was 21 when I heard this song. I was searching for a reason to justify this world I lived in. I use to hear this song and it was exactly how I felt except I didn't feel any joy in going dancing and kicking up my heels. I was so disappointed with life and I had no security. I was making lots of money, I had lots of diamonds, beautiful clothes and a Cadillac, but I was so sad. I had met people in our government who were corrupt and I couldn't find anything that was of value or genuine. No one knew what real love was, as I imagined it. Then I met Jesus. End of Story. I am 75 years old now. I have had disappointments, and wonderful times... still His love is constant, pure and faithful. He has always loved and provided help in time of need and never, never, never has he failed me. He makes my life worth living. 🥰👑✝️🕊💞
I heard it in 69 at about 17, I got it then but not as viscerally as I do now as nearly 70. She is telling live has it's ups and downs, rarely meets expectations, but it's the only game in town, so enjoy it.
God Bless U Arlane, See U on the otherside
For those who feel life owes them something special - this is their song . For those that believe life is something of an opportunity , something , a chance to make something special of - this song is a song of apathy . Peggy Lee makes you decide which way your gonna pick .Hauntingly performed as much as your choice haunts you . Thank you Peggy Lee .
Brilliantly expressed
Not at all.
I know that life will never give anyone anything special.
The only thing we've got is that we're all going to die disappointed.
That's why this song is so good.
@@iancopestick6757 I think the song will be interpreted by each individual depending on how they feel. Some will see it as a song sang by a woman that always wanted something drastic to have more impact and others may see it as those challenges in life were not challenging enough to a strong person or even that she has always been in a state of not caring about anything, even death. Others might see it as just sarcasm.
Salute! This is my mom's favorite song... and she deserves it. Bitter till the last day.
Thank you for this. 😎You get it!
that is one interpretation. but i see it so differently - i see it as an acknowledgement of the contradictions in life, the insignificance of each one of us ultimately, but also a celebration of each of us, of life and feelings and love and dance.. ahh it is all wrapped up and twisted and sad and... just lovely. every few years i revisit it and see something different as i go through the stages in my life, too. just wonderful.
This woman was a legendary singer, character, and writer.
I'm not a nihilist but I savor every second I hear this song. Peggy Lee was wonderful.
We are here for only a moment of time
A magnificent reading, " ...and then he went away; and I thought I'd die , but I didn't" is sublime.
Terrific. Peggy Lee is one of those artists whose talent and skill can't be described... But she was simply sublime.
A friend told me about her, I didn't get her at first but I listened, watched and listened again. Now Peggy Lee is under my skin, she had expression and sincerity.
Wow....can't believe you've never heard Ms. Lee's music before. You must be really young. Peggy Lee is one of the greatest. I so wish I would've been part of that generation. :(
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I never heard of her either until the movie "Beach Bum" came out. They played this song in the movie and I liked it so much I just had to research it to find it on youtube. Now I know who she is and she is certainly talented with a lot of wisdom.
The tribute Kristen Wiig gave to this exact performance in her show Palm Royale ❤ PEGGY LEE FOREVER
I am an embryo and I really like this.
This comment is severely underrated >:(
@@mrsuperdudly1 I'm four now.
I am 84 & tears flow when I hear this song.PEGGY,PEGGY!!!!!!
Same.
I remember my band and I playing this song 🎶 in high school! ! As I walked offstage I said to myself, is that all there is! To being being a musician
The music is pure Berlin 1932 - what a wonderful piece of work. And wonderful interpretation.
And such a nice fit for Mad Men Series 7 Episode 8.
The song has a feel of Joel Grey in the "" Three Penny Opera"".
YEP..JE
@@drohegda I would have said Lotte Lenya,but same ballpark I guess...
I adore this song.
+twitterienne I first heard this song in the movie After Hours and have adored it too.
+Gill Man it was eerie like something from the twilight zone or an inescapable dream
You describe it perfectly . (My opinion of course !)
+Gill Man lol great song and performance very evocative
yeah, me too baby.
Love her thanks to my mom for always showing me great music
My Dad’s favourite torch singer(and my Mom’s).
incredible woman and great tune
She is my favorite singer, even though I am from Russia, but in her I recognize myself precisely in those life difficulties that she had. I will definitely go to Westwood Cemetery in Los Angeles to give flowers to my favorite jazz artist. Her songs have always inspired me and inspire me to live, it's a pity that I didn't find her alive, I would so like to ask her and talk to her...but, unfortunately, I was born shortly before her death in 2000, and she died in 2001, she lives in our hearts and souls, rest in peace, Peggy, thank you very much for your eternal creativity, which continues to live. 😞❤❤❤❤❤
You have a beautiful old-soul. She is my favourite too for so many reasons.
@@kyrstenwinterlake549 Thank you, I will definitely go to Los Angeles and lay flowers on her grave and post a minute of silence in her honor. I love jazz, but her songs are the ones I remember the most and are etched into my memory and they help me live.
Привет
Her best song in my opinion. Heartfelt and so melancholy. Peggy is one of the best singers the world will ever see. ❤❤❤Peggy❤❤❤
She owns this song - no none else.
Realizing life has disappointments and learning to accept and make the best of it.
Brilliantly interpretes full of irony and scepticism.Stephan