THE existentialist challenge of the late 1960’s. Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller wrote 70 top hits across 6 decades. Think Elvis Presley. This was a very unusual song for them, based on novelist Thomas Mann’s late 19th century writings and echoing the 1930’s German world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Leiber_and_Mike_Stoller https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabaret_(musical) Peggy Lee had performed and won critical … Continue reading Peggy Lee: Is That All There Is?