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      • "one" target="_blank">One for My Baby (and one" target="_blank">One More for the Road)" is a song written by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer for the movie musical The Sky's the Limit (1943) and first performed in the film by Fred Astaire.


      Background


      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 – fifty-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."
      The song was further popularized by Frank Sinatra. Sinatra recorded the song several times during his career: in 1947 with Columbia Records, in 1954 for the film soundtrack album Young at Heart, in 1958 for Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely, in 1962 for Sinatra & Sextet: Live in Paris, in 1966 for Sinatra at the Sands and finally, in 1993, for his Duets album. At a Johnny Carson-hosted Rat Pack concert at the Kiel Opera House in St. Louis in 1965, Sammy Davis Jr., backed by Quincy Jones conducting the Count Basie Orchestra, performed the song imitating the styles of successively Fred Astaire, Nat King Cole, Billy Eckstine, Vaughn Monroe, Tony Bennett, Mel Tormé, Frankie Laine, Louis Armstrong, an inebriated Dean Martin, and Jerry Lewis. Bennett, the last surviving of those imitated, continued to perform the song until his retirement in 2021 at the age of 95. During his final concert performances, at Radio City Music Hall, Bennett's performance of 'one" target="_blank">One For My Baby' was deemed a "highlight of his set" that "went from daring [due to the circumstances] to sublime".


      Recordings


      Many renditions of "one" target="_blank">One for My Baby (and one" target="_blank">One More for the Road)" have been performed. The following is a list of notable/well-known versions that have been recorded thus far:

      Fred Astaire (1943) – 4:59 – Available on Somewhere Over the Rainbow: The Golden Age of Hollywood Musicals and Hollywood's Best: The 40s
      Johnny Mercer (1946) – 3.09 – Available on Capitol Collector's Series
      Frank Sinatra (1947) – 3:07 – Available on The Essential Frank Sinatra: The Columbia Years
      Cab Calloway (1951) – 3:20 – As a single, with Shot Gun Boogie; available on Hi-De-Ho and Other Movies (2004)
      Frankie Laine (1951) – 3:39 – On one" target="_blank">One For My Baby and available on The Legend at His Best
      Harold Arlen (1952) – 4:15 – Available on Too Marvelous For Words: Capitol Sings Johnny Mercer
      Jane Russell (1952) Recorded for the soundtrack to the film Macao
      Marlene Dietrich (1954) – 4:07 – Available on Love Songs
      Frank Sinatra (1954) – 4:05 – Recorded for the soundtrack to the film Young at Heart; available on Frank Sinatra in Hollywood 1940–1964
      Harry James (1955) - 3:38 – Available on Jazz Session (Columbia CL 669)
      Tony Bennett (1957) – 3:10 – A chart single, recorded live; a later studio version appeared in 1992 on Perfectly Frank
      Billie Holiday (1957) – 5:42 – Available on Songs for Distingué Lovers
      Lena Horne (1957) – 3:24 – Available on Bluebird's Best: The Young Star
      Della Reese (1957) – 4:02 – On Melancholy Baby; available on The Singles Collection 1955-1962
      Harry Belafonte (1958) – 4:34 – Available on Belafonte Sings the Blues
      Frank Sinatra (1958) – 4:23 – Available on Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely; a piano-only rehearsal version is available on The Capitol Years box set
      Fred Astaire (1959) - 3:02 – Available originally on Now [Kapp 1165 / 3049]
      Jula De Palma (1959) – 3:24 – On "Buone Vacanze", available on Jula in Jazz 2
      Julie London (1959) – 4.10 – Available on Your Number Please
      Perry Como (1960) – 3:45 – Available on the long play record So Smooth
      Ella Fitzgerald (1960) – 4:18 – Available on Ella Fitzgerald Sings Songs from Let No Man Write My Epitaph
      Ella Fitzgerald (1961) – 3:58 – Available on Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook
      Etta James (1961) – 3:26 – Available on The Second Time Around
      Wes Montgomery (1961) – 7:38 - Available on SO Much Guitar!
      Chuck Berry (1965) – 2:44 – Available on Fresh Berry's
      Marvin Gaye (1966) – 4:31 – Available on Moods of Marvin Gaye
      Frank Sinatra (1966) – 4:40 – (live version) – Available on Sinatra at the Sands
      Sammy Davis Jr. (1967) – 10:20 – On the live album That's All!
      Bing Crosby (1968) - 3.30 - Available on Bing Crosby's Treasury - The Songs I Love (1968 version)
      Lou Rawls (1968) – 4:25 – On You're Good To Me; Later available on Great Gentlemen of Song: Spotlight on Lou Rawls
      Johnny Mercer (1974) – 3:58 – Available on My Huckleberry Friend
      Willie Nelson (1979) – 2:36 – Available on Willie & Leon: one" target="_blank">One For the Road
      Susannah McCorkle (1981) – 4:12 – On The Songs of Johnny Mercer
      Iggy Pop (1981) – 4:05 – Available on ⋅Party
      Rosemary Clooney (1983) – 3:46 – On Rosemary Clooney Sings the Music of Harold Arlen
      Rob Wasserman and Lou Reed (1988) – 4:06 – On Duets
      Lou Reed (1989) – 5:40 – On Live n London; available on New York in L.A.
      Bette Midler (1992) – 4:06 – Available on Experience The Divine: Greatest Hits (1993)
      Kenny G featuring Frank Sinatra (1997) - 6:08 – On Kenny G – Greatest Hits; paired with an instrument intro of Sinatra's "All the Way"
      Iggy Pop (1997) – 6:04 (live version) – Available on Heroin Hates You
      Linda Eder (1999) – 4:27 – On It's No Secret Anymore
      Laura Fygi (1999) – 5:59 (live version) – On Laura Fygi's Tunes of Passion
      Frank Stallone (1999) – 4:31 – Available on Soft And Low
      Robbie Williams (2001) – 4:15 – Available on Swing When You're Winning
      Danny Aiello (2004) -- On I Just Wanted to Hear the Words
      Chris Botti (2004) – 4:53 – On When I Fall in Love
      Joe Longthorne (2005) – 4:26 – On Perfect Love
      Mina (2005) – Available on L'allieva
      Nana Mouskouri (2005) – 3:15 – Available on I'll Remember You
      Dianne Reeves (2005) – 3:50 – On Good Night, and Good Luck (Original Soundtrack)
      Toots Thielemans with Jamie Cullum (2006) - - Available on one" target="_blank">One More for the Road 2006. Verve
      Sylvia Brooks (2009) – Available on Dangerous Liaisons
      Tony Bennett & John Mayer (2011) – 2:58 – on Duets II
      Hugh Laurie (2013) – Available on Didn't It Rain
      Laura Dickinson (2014) – 4:29 – Available on one" target="_blank">One For My Baby - To Frank Sinatra With Love
      Trisha Yearwood (2018) - Available on her Frank Sinatra tribute album Let's Be Frank
      Willie Nelson (2018) - Available on his Frank Sinatra tribute album My Way
      Donald Duck (Tony Anselmo) (2022) - Available on the compilation album The MousePack - Mickey and Friends Singing Classic Standards


      In film and television



      The song was by sung by Bette Midler to Johnny Carson on the penultimate night of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (May 21, 1992). Both Midler and Carson got caught up in the emotion of the song, and a heretofore unused camera angle on the set framed the two and the performance. It earned Midler that year's Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program. The lyrics were adapted by Marc Shaiman to suit the occasion – such as "And, John, I know you're getting anxious to close".
      Ida Lupino performs the song in the 1948 film-noir Road House.
      Jane Russell performs the song in the 1952 film-noir Macao.
      Beverly Garland performs the song in Season 1, Episode 13 of the 1959 American television series The Twilight Zone.


      References

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