One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) Totally Explained

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"One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" is a popular song written by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer for the musical The Sky's the Limit (1943) and first performed in the film by Fred Astaire. It was popularized by the American singer Frank Sinatra. Harold Arlen described the song as "another typical Arlen tapeworm" - a "tapeworm" being the trade slang for any song which went over the conventional 32 bar length. He called it "a wandering song. [Lyricist] Johnny [Mercer] took it and wrote it exactly the way it fell. Not only is it long - forty-eight bars - but it also changes key. Johnny made it work." In the opinion of Arlen's biographer, Edward Jablonski, the song is "musically inevitable, rhythmically insistent, and in that mood of 'metropolitan melancholic beauty' that writer John O'Hara finds in all of Arlen's music."

Recordings

Countless renditions of "One For My Baby..." have been performed, the following is a list of notable/well-known versions which have been recorded thus far:

Perry Como - 3:45 - Available on the Long Play Record So Smooth
Billie Holiday - 5:42 - Available on "The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945-1959"
Ella Fitzgerald - 4:18 - Available on Ella Fitzgerald Sings Songs from "Let No Man Write My Epitaph"
Etta James - 3:27 - Available on "The Essential Etta James"
Frank Sinatra - 3:07 (1947) - Available on "The Essential Frank Sinatra: The Columbia Years"
Frank Sinatra - 4:23 (1958) - Available on Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely
Frank Stallone - 4:31 - Available on "Soft And Low"
Frankie Laine - 3:39 - Available on "The Legend at His Best"
Fred Astaire - 4:59 - Available on "Somewhere Over the Rainbow: The Golden Age of Hollywood Musicals" and "Hollywood's Best: The 40's"
Harold Arlen - 4:15 - Available on "Too Marvelous For Words • Capitol Sings Johnny Mercer"
Iggy Pop - 4:05 - Available on "Party"
Iggy Pop - 6:04 (live version) - Available on "Heroin Hates You"
Johnny Mercer - 3.09 - Available on "Capitol Collector's Series"
Johnny Mercer - 3:58 - Available on "My Huckleberry Friend"
Julie London - 4.10 - Available on "Your Number Please"
Laura Fygi - 5:59 (live version) - Available on "Laura Fygi's Tunes of Passion"
Lena Horne - 3:24 - Available on "Bluebird's Best: The Young Star"
Linda Eder - 4:23 - Available on "It's No Secret Anymore"
Lou Rawls - 4:25 - Available on "Great Gentlemen of Song: Spotlight on Lou Rawls"
Marlene Dietrich - 4:07 - Available on "Love Songs"
Marvin Gaye - 4:30 - Available on "Moods of Marvin Gaye"
Nana Mouskouri - 3:15 - Available on "I'll remember you"
Rosemary Clooney - 3:50 - Available on "Ballad Essentials"
Jula de Palma - 3:24 - Available on "Jula in Jazz 2"
Tony Bennett - 3:26 - Available on Perfectly Frank also a 1957 chart single
Willie Nelson - 2:36 - Available on "Willie & Leon: One For the Road"
Robbie Williams - 4:18 - Available on "Swing When You're Winning"
Bette Midler - 4:06 - Available on "Experience The Divine: Greatest Hits (1993)"

Modern film references

Dianne Reeves rendition of the song is featured throughout the closing credits of George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), and is available on the film's official soundtrack album.

A piano rendition of the song is played in the background of a bar scene following the protagonist's wife leaving him in the film Invincible (2006).

In the film Road House (1948), starring Richard Widmark, Ida Lupino and Cornel Wilde, Lupino played a saloon piano player and singer. The song she sang, or talked, was "One for my baby and one more for the road."Further Information

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