THAT'S LIFE

Created on 25/04/2006
Latest update on 10/03/2021

Artist: Marian Montgomery
Author: Dean Kay/Kelly Gordon
Label: Capitol
Year: 1964

With Jack Marshall's Music.

Covers:

1964:

O.C. Smith [shortly after leaving Count Basie's orchestra; only bubbling under in the slipstream of Frank Sinatra's hit, but that's life]

1966:

Frank Sinatra

1967:

Aretha Franklin

1967:

Temptations

1967:

Gene McDaniels

1968:

James Brown [Live at the Apollo I & II]

1968:

Billy Paul

1969:

Kelly Gordon [author also B-side of He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother (see there)]

1986:

David Lee Roth

1993:

dirk Blanchart

1995:

Van Morrison & Georgie Fame & Friends

2004:

Westlife

2007:

Michael Bublé

2008:

Helmut Lotti

2021:

Willie Nelson [title track lp]

The line "That's life, that's what all the people say, Riding high in April, seriously shot down in May" was re-used by Tom Waits in Nighthawk Postcard ('75).

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