October 18, 1969 –
The cheerful little ditty, Is That All There Is?, by Peggy Lee, went to No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary charts, on this date.
This song alternates between spoken narration and the sung chorus. It’s about a woman sunk in chronic boredom, perhaps depressed, to the point where she is not impressed with some of life’s greatest spectacles. It’s rather macabre.
