One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)

About One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)

"One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" is a hit 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. It was further popularized by 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."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. more »

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2011

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Hey John
Yes sir
Come on let's have a drink
If you insist

It's quarter to three
There's no one in the place
Except you and me

Set'em up, Joe
You know John I got a little story that you oughta know,
Wait' till you hear 'bout this"

We're drinking my friend,
To the end Of a brief episode
I am tellin' you that's what happened
Make it one for my baby
And one more for the road, (Here's to you, cheers)

I got the routine (Oh no you too)
So drop another nickel in the machine

Man, I'm feeling so bad
I wish you'd make that music dreamy and sad

I could tell you a lot (You too, right?)
But you've got to be true to your code (okay)
Make it one for my baby
And one more for the road

You'd never know it, but buddy, I'm a kind of poet

Well yea that's right, I've got a lot Of things to say

And when I'm gloomy You simply gotta listen to me
Until it's talked away

Let's have another drink. Bartender fill it up again, will you?

That's how it goes
John, I know you're getting very anxious to close

"You don't know me well enough"

Tony thanks for the cheer
I hope you don't mind me bending your ear

'Cause this torch that I found
Must be drowned or it or soon might explode

Make it one for my baby
And one more for the road

Take it home, now
That long,
That long, long road

Let's leave it to it,
Sleep tight

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Tony Bennett

Anthony Dominick Benedetto, better known as Tony Bennett (born August 3, 1926), is an Italian-American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz. Bennett is also a serious and accomplished painter, having created works—under the name Anthony Benedetto—that are on permanent public display in several institutions. He is the founder of the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in New York City. more »

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