At Last by Etta James 1961

November 15, 1960
Argo RCA (original).
This article is about the album by Etta James. For the album by Etta Jones, see At Last (Etta Jones album).
At Last - Etta James.
Studio album by Etta James
Released November 15, 1960
Recorded January – October 1960
Genre Blues, R&B, traditional pop, soul blues
Length 29:11
Label Argo (original)
MCA/Chess (re-release)
Producer Phil Chess
Leonard Chess
Etta James chronology
At Last!
(1960) The Second Time Around
(1961)
Singles from At Last!
"All I Could Do Was Cry"
Released: 1960
"My Dearest Darling"
Released: 1960
"At Last"
Released: 1960
"Trust in Me"
Released: 1961
Encyclopedia of Popular Music 5/5 stars[4]
At Last! is the debut studio album by American blues and soul artist Etta James. Released on Argo Records in November 1960 the album was produced by Phil and Leonard Chess. At Last! also rose to no. 12 upon the Billboard Top Catalog Albums chart.
At Last! was ranked at #119 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.It was ranked as the 62nd best album of the 1960s by Pitchfork Magazine.
The original release of At Last! was issued as a 12-inch LP consisting of ten tracks, five songs on each side of the LP. Phil and Leonard Chess believed that James's voice had crossover pop potential, so with this debut album, they backed her with orchestral arrangements on many of the tracks. At Last! eventually spawned four singles being "All I Could Do Was Cry", "Trust in Me", "At Last", and "My Dearest Darling". The album also included covers of pop and jazz standards, such as "Stormy Weather", "A Sunday Kind of Love", and "I Just Want to Make Love to You". In 1987, the album was released for the first time by MCA/Chess, and then digitally remastered and reissued on compact disc in 1999 with four bonus duet tracks performed with Harvey Fuqua: "My Heart Cries," "Spoonful," "It's a Crying Shame," and "If I Can't Have You."