That's All There Is to That

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"That's All There Is to That"
Single by Nat King Cole
B-side "My Dream Sonata"
ReleasedJune 1956 (1956-06)
Recorded30 December 1955
Studio Capitol, 5515 Melrose Ave, Hollywood
Genre Traditional pop
Length2:20
Label Capitol
Songwriter(s) Clyde Otis, Kelly Owens
Nat King Cole singles chronology
"Too Young to Go Steady"
(1956)
"That's All There Is to That"
(1956)
"Night Lights"/"To the Ends of the Earth"
(1956)

"That's All There Is to That" is a song written by Clyde Otis and Kelly Owens and performed by Nat King Cole featuring The Four Knights. It reached #15 on the U.S. R&B chart and #16 on the U.S. pop chart in 1956. [1] The song reference's Ethel Barrymore's phrase to rebuff curtain calls, "That's all there is, there isn't any more".

The single's B-side, "My Dream Sonata" reached #59 on the U.S. pop chart in 1956. [2]

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