"One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" is a hit song written by

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and

Johnny Mercer John Herndon Mercer (November 18, 1909 – June 25, 1976) was an American lyricist, songwriter, and singer, as well as a record label executive who co-founded Capitol Records with music industry businessmen Buddy DeSylva and Glenn E. Wallich ...

for the movie musical '' The Sky's the Limit'' (1943) and first performed in the film by

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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. yricistJohnny ercertook 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,

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, the song is "musically inevitable, rhythmically insistent, and in that mood of 'metropolitan melancholic beauty' that writer

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finds in all of Arlen's music." It was further popularized by

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. Sinatra recorded the song several times during his career: in 1947 with

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, in 1954 for the film soundtrack album '' Young at Heart'', in 1958 for ''

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'', in 1962 for '' Sinatra & Sextet: Live in Paris'', in 1966 for ''

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'' and finally, in 1993, for his ''

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'' album. At a

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-hosted

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concert at the Kiel Opera House in

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in 1965,

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, backed by

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conducting the

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, performed the song imitating the styles of successively

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, an inebriated

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, and

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. 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

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, Bennett's performance of 'One For My Baby' was deemed a "highlight of his set" that "went from daring ue to the circumstancesto sublime".

Recordings

Countless renditions of "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" have been performed. The following is a list of notable/well-known versions which have been recorded thus far: *

(1943) – 4:59 – Available on ''Somewhere Over the Rainbow: The Golden Age of Hollywood Musicals'' and ''Hollywood's Best: The 40s'' *

(1946) – 3.09 – Available on ''Capitol Collector's Series'' *

(1947) – 3:07 – Available on ''The Essential Frank Sinatra: The Columbia Years'' *

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(1951) – 3:20 – As a single, with ''Shot Gun Boogie''; available on ''Hi-De-Ho and Other Movies'' (2004) *

(1951) – 3:39 – On "One For My Baby" and available on ''The Legend at His Best'' *

(1952) – 4:15 – Available on ''Too Marvelous For Words: Capitol Sings Johnny Mercer'' *

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(1954) – 4:07 – Available on ''Love Songs'' *

(1954) – 4:05 – Recorded for the soundtrack to the film '' Young at Heart''; available on '' Frank Sinatra in Hollywood 1940–1964'' *

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(1955) - 3:38 – Available on ''Jazz Session'' ( Columbia CL 669) *

(1957) – 3:10 – A chart single, recorded live; a later studio version appeared in 1992 on ''

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Billie Holiday Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner, Lester Young, Holiday had an innovative influence on jazz music and pop si ...

(1957) – 5:42 – Available on ''

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(1957) – 3:24 – Available on ''Bluebird's Best: The Young Star'' *

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(1957) – 4:02 – On ''Melancholy Baby''; available on ''The Singles Collection 1955-1962'' *

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(1958) – 4:34 – Available on ''

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(1958) – 4:23 – Available on ''

''; a piano-only rehearsal version is available on '' The Capitol Years'' box set *

(1959) - 3:02 – Available originally on ''Now'' app 1165 / 3049* Jula De Palma (1959) – 3:24 – On "Buone Vacanze", available on ''Jula in Jazz 2'' *

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(1959) – 4.10 – Available on '' Your Number Please'' *

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(1960) – 3:45 – Available on the long play record '' So Smooth'' *

Ella Fitzgerald Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917June 15, 1996) was an American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella". She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing, timing, in ...

(1960) – 4:18 – Available on ''

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(1961) – 3:58 – Available on ''

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(1961) – 3:26 – Available on '' The Second Time Around'' *

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(1961) – 7:38 - Available on '' SO Much Guitar!'' *

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(1965) – 2:44 – Available on ''

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(1966) – 4:31 – Available on ''Moods of Marvin Gaye'' *

(1966) – 4:40 – (live version) – Available on ''

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(1967) – 10:20 – On the live album ''

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(1968) - 3.30 - Available on ''

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(1968) – 4:25 – On ''You're Good To Me''; Later available on ''Great Gentlemen of Song: Spotlight on Lou Rawls'' *

(1974) – 3:58 – Available on ''

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(1979) – 2:36 – Available on '' Willie & Leon: One For the Road'' *

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(1981) – 4:12 – On ''The Songs of Johnny Mercer'' *

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(1981) – 4:05 – Available on ''Party'' *

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(1983) – 3:46 – On ''Rosemary Clooney Sings the Music of Harold Arlen'' *

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(1988) – 4:06 – On ''Duets'' *

(1989) – 5:40 – On ''Live n London''; available on ''New York in L.A.'' *

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(1992) – 4:06 – Available on '' Experience The Divine: Greatest Hits (1993)'' *

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(1997) – 6:04 (live version) – Available on ''Heroin Hates You'' *

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(1999) – 4:27 – On ''It's No Secret Anymore'' *

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(1999) – 5:59 (live version) – On ''Laura Fygi's Tunes of Passion'' *

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(1999) – 4:31 – Available on ''Soft And Low'' *

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(2001) – 4:15 – Available on ''

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(2004) -- On ''I Just Wanted to Hear the Words'' *

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(2004) – 4:53 – On ''

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(2005) – 4:26 – On ''Perfect Love'' * Mina (2005) – Available on ''

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(2005) – 3:15 – Available on ''I'll remember you'' *

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(2005) – 3:50 – On '' Good Night, and Good Luck (Original Soundtrack)'' *

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(2006) - - Available on '' One More for the Road 2006.

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(2009) – Available on ''

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(2011) – 2:58 – on '' Duets II'' *

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(2013) – Available on ''

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(2014) – 4:29 – Available on ''

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(2018) - Available on his Frank Sinatra tribute album ''

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(2022) Available on his "Noir" album

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In addition to its original performance by

in '' The Sky's the Limit'' (1943), the song has been performed in other films and television shows. * A piano version of the song can be heard in the background in the Rocky's scene toward the end of ''

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'' (1944). Arlen and Mercer are not credited. *

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's '' Road House'' (1948), prompting a character to remark: "She does more without a voice than anybody I've ever heard." *

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'' (1952). * The song plays prominently in the 1954 adventure-mystery film ''

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'', in which it is played on a piano by a gangster who is killed. The only people who know what song he was playing at the time of the murder are his assailant and a witness (

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), whom the killer is after. * "One for My Baby" is the theme song of the 1957–1958

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''Meet McGraw'', starring

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. * The song is featured in the 1971 movie ''

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'' being played by an animatronic piano player constructed by Dr. Phibes (

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); however, its inclusion in the movie is an anachronism, as the movie is set in the 1920s and the song was recorded in 1943. * The song was by sung by

on the penultimate night of ''

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'' (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

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for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program. The lyrics were adapted by

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to suit the occasion – such as "And, John, I know you're getting anxious to close". *

' rendition of the song is featured throughout the

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's ''

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'' (2005), and is available on the film's official soundtrack album. *

's cover of the song appeared in ''

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'' (2017). * In November 2017,

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and

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performed the song on a ''

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'' fundraiser special for

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. * In June 2018, the song was played in the background of the final scene of the Season 3 finale of '' Billions'', during the conversation between Wendy and Axe. * in December 2018, Frank Sinatra's cover of the song is used in a sequence in the Season 2 finale of ''

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''.

References

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