"That's All" If Not Bobby Darin, Who?

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Back in high school in the 1960s I used to stay up to listen to the nighttime dj on the Top 40 station.

Each night he would close out his program just before midnight with a slow, dreamy, beautiful version of the pop standard “That’s All.” (Dj’s were allowed to have such signature tunes in the days before computer playlists.)

I always thought that the version he played was by Bobby Darin, so when I wanted to take another listen I went out and got, naturally, Darin’s That’s All CD.

But his take on the song is a superfast hipster’s version, the absolute opposite of what I was looking for.

So. Did Darin ever record another version of “That’s All”?

I can’t find one. If not him, who?

I searched Amazon for playable tracks and the one by Mel Torme sounds like the same arrangement, but his voice is too high to be the right singer.

Any guesses who it might be?

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I found that Ricky Nelson did a song called “That’s All”. According to the All Music Guide, it’s the same song (the writing credit is “Brandt/Haymes”).

Nelson’s version came out in 1963 and went to #48.

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That’s a good suggestion. His version came out in 1963, so the timing is about right.

But I don’t think so. I found a sample of the song and it didn’t sound quite right. Close, though. My memory may be playing tricks on me after all these years.

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I’ve got recordings of “That’s All” by Frank Sinatra, Johnny Mathis, the Righteous Brothers and, more recently, Michael Bublé.

Mathis seriously screwed up one line in the lyrics, and nobody caught it. Instead of “a love time can **never **destroy,” he sang "a love time can **only **destroy. What really got destroyed was the song.

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The Mathis clip I found (from Heavenly is awfully close. But I’m still not sure.

Nat King Cole’s version is also very similar.

This is going to drive me crazy real soon now. However, kudos to Buy.com for making a sample clip available for every track on every album they sell. I wish you could search, though. Searching on “that’s all” brings up a page saying “search all 560 results in music”. When you click on that link, however, only eight titles come up, 3 of which are “That’s All”. Searching by Song brings up 4 titles, one of which is “That’s All.” Weirdness.