At Last (Cyndi Lauper album)

At Last is the seventh studio album by American singer Cyndi Lauper. The album is a collection of covers of jazz standards, in addition to a cover of a contemporary song re-arranged into a jazz song.^[3] The album features a duet with Tony Bennett on "Makin' Whoopee" and was co-produced by Lauper with Russ Titelman.^[4] The album's longbox was available only at Costco or Sam's Club shops within the first two weeks when it was released.^[5] In 2008 Lauper said in an interview with Brazilian newspaper Extra that the album was a special project, with the intervention of the record company and that she does not consider it as a "career album".^[6]

At Last
Studio album by Cyndi Lauper
Released	November 18, 2003 (2003-11-18)
Recorded	2003
Studio	Livewire Recording, Avatar Studios, Bennett Studios, Right Track Studios, Clinton Recording Studios[1]
Genre	Jazz
Length	50:02
Label	Epic Daylight
Producer	Cyndi Lauper Russ Titelman
Cyndi Lauper chronology
The Great Cyndi Lauper (2003) At Last (2003) Hey Now! (Remixes & Rarities) (2005)
Singles from At Last
"Walk On By" Released: November 2003 "Stay" Released: March 2004

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]

The album was well received by the public and music critics. AllMusic and Slant Magazine praised the album and gave it three stars out of five.^[7][8] The album debuted at #38 on the Billboard 200 with 47,000 copies sold in its first week,^[9] while the song "Walk On By" S.A.F. hit #10 on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play and the Eddie X Mixes version hit the same chart at #15.^[10]

To promote the album, Cyndi headlined VH1 Divas Live 2004 alongside such artists as Patti LaBelle and Debbie Harry, performing "Stay" with Sheila E. on percussion. By 2012, it had sold 276,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.^[11]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original artist	Length
1.	"At Last"	Harry Warren Mack Gordon	Ray Eberle	2:44
2.	"Walk On By"	Burt Bacharach Hal David	Dionne Warwick	4:34
3.	"Stay"	Maurice Williams	Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs	3:14
4.	"La Vie en Rose"	Louis Guglielmi Édith Piaf (English adaptation by Mack David)	Édith Piaf	3:35
5.	"Unchained Melody"	Alex North Hy Zaret	Todd Duncan	4:27
6.	"If You Go Away"	Jacques Brel (English adaptation by Rod McKuen)	Damita Jo	4:27
7.	"Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)"	Morris Broadnax Clarence Paul Stevie Wonder	Aretha Franklin	4:40
8.	"My Baby Just Cares for Me"	Walter Donaldson Gus Kahn	Eddie Cantor	2:37
9.	"Makin' Whoopee" (with Tony Bennett)	Donaldson Kahn	Eddie Cantor	4:16
10.	"Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"	Bennie Benjamin Gloria Caldwell Sol Marcus	Nina Simone	3:40
11.	"You've Really Got a Hold on Me"	Smokey Robinson	The Miracles	4:03
12.	"Hymn to Love"	Marguerite Monnot Piaf (English adaptation by Eddie Constantine)	Édith Piaf	3:33
13.	"On the Sunny Side of the Street"	Dorothy Fields Jimmy McHugh	Fats Waller and his Rhythm	4:08
Total length:				49:58

Personnel

• Russ Titelman - producer
• Cyndi Lauper - producer
• William Wittman - mixing
• Russ Titelman - mixing
• George Fullan - mix assistant
• Steve Gaboury - engineer
• Sharon Tucker - assistant engineer
• Peter Doris - assistant engineer
• Tim Stritmater - assistant engineer
• Brian Dozoretz - assistant engineer
• Jason Finkel - assistant engineer
• Elizabeth Collins - assistant engineer
• Kurt Marks - assistant engineer
• Jill Dell'Abate - production manager, contractor
• Ted Jensen - mastering
• Ryan Smith - mastering
• Lisa Barbaris - management
• David Massey - A&R
• Evan L - A&R coordinator

Charts

Chart (2003)	Peak position
Australia (ARIA)[12][13]	32
Canadian Albums (Billboard)	32
French Albums (SNEP)[14]	85
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[15]	205
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[16]	50
UK Albums (OCC)[17]	124
U.S. Billboard 200[18]	38
U.S. Billboard Internet Albums[19]	12

Release history

Country	Date	Format	Label	Catalog
United States[5]	18 November 2003	CD	Epic (Sony)	EK 90760
Japan[5]	27 November 2003			EICP290