"That's All" is a 1952 song written by Alan Brandt with music by Bob Haymes. It has been covered by many jazz and blues artists. The first recording, by Nat King Cole in 1953, achieved some popularity but was not among that year's top 20 songs. It was Bobby Darin's version from his 1959 album of the same title that introduced the song to a wider audience,^[1] and it has since become a jazz standard.

It was used as theme and bumper music, and as background behind live advertising announcements, on the overnight classical music program, American Airlines Music Til Dawn, which ran on clear-channel AM radio stations, mostly but not all CBS, from 1953 to 1970.

The song is part of the Great American Songbook, and Alec Wilder included it in his book American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950, even though it was composed two years after that period. Wilder gave two reasons for making this exception: (1) "it is one of the last free-flowing, native, and natural melodies in the grand pop style"; (2) "it went through no initial hit phase but became an immediate standard".^[1]

Cover versions

• Edie Adams on the final episode of The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour (1960)
• Michael Bublé on Michael Bublé (2003)
• Ceil Clayton on Ceil Clayton, Norman Records (1964)
• Darren Criss at Northalsted Market Days (2011)
• June Christy - The Misty Miss Christy (1956), A Lovely Way to Spend An Evening (1986)
• Nat King Cole on This Is Nat 'King' Cole, LP T-870, (1957)
• Billy Eckstine with Pete Rugoloand his Orchestra (1958)
• Sam Cooke
• Dorothy Dandridge
• Tony Danza on The House I Live In (2002)
• Bobby Darin on That's All (1959)
• Eliane Elias on her album Dreamer (2004)
• Bill Elliott & Wendi Williams on the soundtrack for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999)
• Connie Francis on The Exciting Connie Francis (1959)
• Judy Garland on The Judy Garland Show (1964)
• Leif Garrett on Leif Garrett (1977)^[2]
• Johnny Hartman on This One's for Tedi (1985)
• Dick Haymes (elder brother of the song's composer) on Keep It Simple (1978)
• Harry James on In A Relaxed Mood (MGM E-4274, 1965)
• Joni James on Like Three O'Clock In The Morning (1963)
• Beverly Kenney on Snuggled on your Shoulder (1954)
• Stacey Kent on Tenderly (2015)
• Barney Kessel on Easy Like (1956)
• Johnny Mathis on Heavenly (1959)
• Johnny Nash on Johnny Nash (1958)
• Ricky Nelson on Songs by Ricky (1959); single reached #48 on Billboard in 1963
• Oscar Peterson, with Stéphane Grappelli, on Skol (live, 1979)
• Carl Riseley on The Rise (2008)
• Mathilde Santing on Ballads (2004)
• Nina Simone on Nina Simone With Strings
• Frank Sinatra on Sinatra and Strings (1962)
• Rod Stewart on It Had to Be You: the Great American Songbook (2002)
• Curtis Stigers on Hooray for Love (2014)
• Billy Taylor Trio, Prestige Records single (1953)
• Thee Midniters
• Mel Tormé on That's All (1965)
• Steve Tyrell on This Guy's In Love (2003)
• Sarah Vaughan on Sarah Vaughan a Paris (1958)
• Frederica von Stade on Flicka: Another Side of Frederica von Stade (1990)
• Ben Webster on King of the Tenors (1953)
• Father Tom Vaughn on Cornbread (Meat Loaf, Greens & Devilled Eggs) (1967)
• Ahmad Jamal on Ahmad Jamal Trio Volume IV (1958)
• Will Downing with Stevie Wonder on Love's the Place to Be (1993)
• Lee Morgan on "Introducing Lee Morgan" (1956)

In popular culture

• Adam Sandler (in The Wedding Singer)
• Ace Young (on American Idol)
• Edie Adams (on the final episode of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour)
• Gail Edwards (on It's a Living episode "Healings, Nothing More Than Healings)
• Kevin Spacey (as Bobby Darin in Beyond the Sea performing at the Copacabana.)
• Dustin Hoffman (in Tootsie)

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