Editing ...That's the Way It Is

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{{Infobox album|
| name       = ...That's The Way It Is
| type       = Album
| artist     = [[Harry Nilsson|Nilsson]]
| cover      = ..That's The Way It Is.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = June 1976
| recorded   =
| venue      =
| studio     = Davlen Sound Studios, Sound Labs and RCA's Music Center of the World, [[Hollywood, California]]
| genre      = [[Pop music|Pop]]
| length     = {{Duration|m=32|s=15}}
| label      = [[RCA Victor]]
| producer   = [[Trevor Lawrence (musician)|Trevor Lawrence]]
| prev_title = [[Sandman (album)|Sandman]]
| prev_year  = 1976
| next_title = [[Knnillssonn]]
| next_year  = 1977
| misc       = {{Singles
 | name        = ...That's the Way It Is
 | type        = studio
 | single1     = [[Sail Away (Randy Newman song)|Sail Away]]" / "Moonshine Bandit
 | single1date = April 1976
 | single2     = [[Just One Look (song)|Just One Look]]/[[Baby I'm Yours (Barbara Lewis song)|Baby I'm Yours]]" / "[[That Is All (song)|That Is All]]
 | single2date = August 1976
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref name="AMG">{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r45662|pure_url=yes}}|title=''...That's the Way It Is'' Info|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|accessdate=26 April 2011}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[The Essential Rock Discography]]''
| rev2Score = 4/10<ref>{{cite book|author=Strong, Martin C. |year=2006|title=The Essential Rock Discography|publisher=[[Canongate]]|location=Edinburgh, UK|pages=758–59|isbn=978-1-84195-827-9}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev3Score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref>Randall, Mac; Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds) (2004). ''The New Rolling Stone Album Guide'' (4th edn). New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. p. 586. {{ISBN|0-7432-0169-8}}.</ref>
}}
'''''...That's the Way It Is''''' is the thirteenth album by American singer [[Harry Nilsson]], released in 1976 on [[RCA Records]]. Aside from two original songs, the album consists of [[cover version|cover tunes]].

The songs include "[[That Is All (song)|That Is All]]", written by [[George Harrison]] and originally released on ''[[Living in the Material World]]'' in 1973; [[America (band)|America]]'s "I Need You", from their [[America (America album)|eponymous 1971 album]]; [[Randy Newman]]'s "[[Sail Away (Randy Newman song)|Sail Away]]", from his 1972 [[Sail Away (Randy Newman album)|album of the same name]]; and [[The Heartbeats (doo-wop group)|the Heartbeats]]' "[[A Thousand Miles Away]]". Harrison's song was recorded twice by Nilsson, to open and close the album.

Another cover version on ''...That's the Way It Is'', the [[Calypso music|calypso]] "[[Jumbie Jamberee|Zombie Jamboree]]", had previously been recorded by [[Lord Intruder]], [[Kingston Trio]] and [[Harry Belafonte]], among others. Nilsson's medley of the [[Doris Troy]] hit "[[Just One Look (song)|Just One Look]]" and [[Barbara Lewis]]' "[[Baby I'm Yours (Barbara Lewis song)|Baby I'm Yours]]" was performed as a duet with singer [[Lynda Laurence]]. The latter, formerly of [[the Supremes]], was the wife of Nilsson's producer, [[Trevor Lawrence (musician)|Trevor Lawrence]].

==Track listing==
{{Tracklist
| title1 = [[That Is All (song)|That Is All]]
| writer1 = [[George Harrison]]
| length1 = 3:02
| title2 = [[Just One Look (song)|Just One Look]]/[[Baby I'm Yours (Barbara Lewis song)|Baby I'm Yours]]
| note2 = duet with [[Lynda Laurence]]
| writer2 = [[Gregory Carroll (R&B singer)|Gregory Carroll]], [[Doris Troy|Doris Payne]]/[[Van McCoy]]
| length2 = 3:17
| title3 = Moonshine Bandit
| writer3 = Harry Nilsson, [[Danny Kortchmar]]
| length3 = 3:26
| title4 = [[I Need You (America song)|I Need You]]
| writer4 = [[Gerry Beckley]]
| length4 = 3:14
| title5 = [[A Thousand Miles Away]]
| writer5 = James Sheppard, William Miller
| length5 = 2:50
| title6 = [[Sail Away (Randy Newman song)|Sail Away]]
| writer6 = [[Randy Newman]]
| length6 = 3:40
| title7 = She Sits Down on Me
| writer7 = [[The Talbot Brothers of Bermuda|Austin Talbot]]
| length7 = 3:55
| title8 = Daylight Has Caught Me
| writer8 = Nilsson, [[Malcolm Rebennack]]
| length8 = 3:47
| title9 = [[Jumbie Jamberee|Zombie Jamboree (Back to Back)]]
| writer9 = Conrad E. Mauge, Jr.
| length9 = 3:02
| title10 = That Is All
| note10 = reprise
| writer10 = Harrison
| length10 = 1:32
}}

==Personnel==
Credits per original album cover and Allmusic:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/thats-the-way-it-is-mw0000512751/credits|title=''...That's the Way It Is'' Credits|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|accessdate=5 October 2020}}</ref>
* [[Harry Nilsson]] – [[singing|vocals]]
* [[Lynda Laurence]] – duet vocals on "Just One Look/Baby I'm Yours", backing vocals
* Tony La Peau – guest vocals on "A Thousand Miles Away"
* [[Danny Kortchmar]], [[Jesse Ed Davis]], [[Fred Tackett]], [[Lon & Derrek Van Eaton]], Keith Allison, [[Dennis Budimir]], Peter Jameson, John Morell, David Wolfert, Mike Anthony – [[guitar]]
* [[Dr. John]], [[Van Dyke Parks]], [[Jane Getz]], [[David Paich]], [[James Newton Howard]] – [[keyboard instrument|keyboards]]
* [[Malcolm Cecil]] – [[synthesizer]]
* [[Klaus Voormann]] – [[bass guitar|bass]]
* [[Jim Keltner]], Chili Charles – [[drum kit|drums]]
* [[Tom Collier (musician)|Tom Collier]], [[Gene Estes]] – [[timpani]]
* [[Robert Greenidge]] – [[steel drum]]s
* Doug Hoefer – [[percussion instrument|percussion]]
* [[Bobby Keys]], Gene Cipriano, James Roberts, [[Buddy Collette]], [[Joe Darensbourg]], [[Bill Green (musician)|William Green]], [[Jim Horn]], Johnny Rotella - [[saxophone]]
* [[Andy Blakeney|Andrew Blakeney]], Steve Madaio, [[Tony Terran|Anthony Terran]] – [[trumpet]]
* [[Vincent DeRosa]], David Duke, Henry Sigismonti - [[French horn]]
* [[Herbie Harper]], Lew McCreary, [[Dick Nash|Richard Taylor "Dick" Nash]], [[Benny Powell]] - [[trombone]]
* Sid Sharp, Murray Adler, Israel Baker, Arnold Belnick, Assa Drori, Henry Ferber, Ronald Folsom, James Getzoff, Harris Goldman, Edward Green, Nathan Kaproff, William Kurash, Carl LaMagna, Joy Lyle, Leonard Malarsky, Ralph Schaeffer, Paul Shure, Polly Sweeney, Tibor Zelig - [[violin]]
* Meyer Bello, Samuel Boghossian, Louis Cievman, Rollice Dale, Allan Harshman, Harry Hyams, Michael Nowak, David Schwartz - [[viola]]
* Raphael Dramer, Jesse Ehrlich, Armand Karpoff, Ray Kelley, Jerome Kessler, Harry Shlutz – [[cello]]
* [[Jimmy Bond (musician)|Jimmy Bond]], Peter Mercurio, Mickey Nadel - [[double bass]]
* Charles Gould, Melvin Tax - [[bassoon]]
* Deidra Askey, [[Dick Glasser|Richard Glasser]], [[Joe Greene (American singer)|Joseph Greene]], Abigale Haness, Monalisa Harrington, John Lehman, [[Sherlie Matthews]], Bill Thedford – backing vocals
* Richie Schmitt, Tommy Vicari - engineer

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable"
!align="left"|Chart (1976)
!align="left"|Peak<br />position
|-
|align="left"|U.S. [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]]
|align="center"|158
|-
|}

==References==
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