At Last – Etta James
An instant standard and classic and the biggest, but not the ONLY hit for the late Etta James. While working at the now-defunct KACE in Los Angeles, we played this song often and during one of my shifts an ad agency called me and asked me who the singer was. I told them Etta James and about a month later, the song was all over a luxury car commercial. The single was recorded in 1960 and James failed to have a sustainable singing career because she had a very difficult struggle with heroin addiction. She died in 2012
