One for My Baby ( and One More for the Road ) - wikipedia One for My Baby ( and One More for the Road ) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( July 2016 ) `` One for My Baby ( and One More for the Road ) '' Sheet music cover Song by Arlen and Mercer Released 1943 ( 1943 ) Genre popular Composer ( s ) Harold Arlen Lyricist ( s ) Johnny Mercer `` 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 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. Contents 1 Recordings 2 In film and television 3 References 4 External links 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 : Perry Como -- 3 : 45 -- Available on the long play record So Smooth Bing Crosby - 3.30 - Available on Bing Crosby 's Treasury - The Songs I Love ( 1968 version ) Billie Holiday -- 5 : 42 -- Available on The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945 -- 1959 Chuck Berry -- 2 : 44 -- Available on Chuck Berry in London Ella Fitzgerald -- 4 : 18 -- Available on Ella Fitzgerald Sings Songs from Let No Man Write My Epitaph Ella Fitzgerald -- 3 : 58 -- Available on Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook Etta James -- 3 : 26 -- Available on The Second Time Around Harry James - Available on Jazz Session ( Columbia CL 669, 1955 ) Frank Sinatra -- 3 : 07 ( 1947 ) -- Available on The Essential Frank Sinatra : The Columbia Years Frank Sinatra -- 4 : 05 ( 1954 ) -- Recorded for the soundtrack to the film Young at Heart ; available on Frank Sinatra in Hollywood 1940 -- 1964 Frank Sinatra -- 4 : 23 ( 1958 ) -- Available on Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely ; a piano - only rehearsal version is available on The Capitol Years box set Fred Astaire -- 4 : 59 -- Available on Somewhere Over the Rainbow : The Golden Age of Hollywood Musicals and Hollywood 's Best : The 40 's Fred Astaire - 3 : 02 - Available originally on Now ( Kapp 1165 / 3049 ) ( 1959 ) Julie London -- 4.10 -- Available on Your Number Please ( 1959 ) Wes Montgomery -- 7 : 38 ( 1961 ) - Available on SO Much Guitar ! Frank Sinatra -- 4 : 40 ( 1966 ) ( live version ) -- Available on Sinatra at the Sands Frank Stallone -- 4 : 31 -- Available on Soft And Low Frankie Laine -- 3 : 39 -- Available on The Legend at His Best Harold Arlen -- 4 : 15 -- Available on Too Marvelous For Words : Capitol Sings Johnny Mercer Iggy Pop -- 4 : 05 -- Available on Party ( 1981 ) Iggy Pop -- 6 : 04 ( live version ) -- Available on Heroin Hates You ( 1997 ) Susannah McCorkle -- The Songs of Johnny Mercer ( 1977 ) Johnny Mercer -- 3.09 ( 1947 ) -- Available on Capitol Collector 's Series Johnny Mercer -- 3 : 58 -- Available on My Huckleberry Friend ( 1974 ) Kenny G featuring Frank Sinatra - 6 : 08 -- Available on the former 's 1997 Greatest Hits album ; paired with an instrument intro of Sinatra 's `` All the Way '' 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 -- Recorded May 2, 1968 for the album You 're Good To Me ; Later 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 Sammy Davis, Jr. -- 10 : 20 -- Available on the 1967 live album That 's All ! 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 and on Duets II with John Mayer Willie Nelson -- 2 : 36 -- Available on Willie & Leon : One For the Road Robbie Williams -- 4 : 15 -- Available on Swing When You 're Winning Bette Midler -- 4 : 06 -- Available on Experience The Divine : Greatest Hits ( 1993 ) Chris Botti -- 4 : 53 -- When I Fall in Love Sylvia Brooks -- Available on Dangerous Liaisons ( 2009 ) Mina -- Available on L'allieva ( 2005 ) Hugh Laurie -- Available on Did n't It Rain ( 2013 ) Danny Aiello -- 2004 release I Just Wanted to Hear the Words Toots Thielemans with Jamie Cullum -- Available on One More for the Road 2006. Verve Laura Dickinson -- 4 : 29 -- Available on One For My Baby - To Frank Sinatra With Love ( 2014 ) In film and television This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( October 2017 ) Ida Lupino sings it as the new talent from Chicago at Jefty 's Road House in Jean Negulesco 's Road House ( 1948 ), prompting a character to remark : `` She does more without a voice than anybody I 've ever heard. '' Jane Russell sings it, wearing a metallic evening gown, in the Josef von Sternberg / Nicholas Ray film noir Macao ( 1952 ). The song plays prominently in the 1954 adventure - mystery film Dangerous Mission, 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 ( Piper Laurie ), whom the killer is after. `` One for My Baby '' is the theme song of the 1957 -- 1958 NBC detective series, Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy. 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 to suit the occasion -- such as `` And, John, I know you 're getting anxious to close ''. 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. Frank Sinatra 's cover of the song recently appeared in Blade Runner 2049. In November 2017, Bono and Chris Martin performed the song on a Jimmy Kimmel Live ! fundraiser special for World AIDS Day. References Jump up ^ Gilliland, John ( 1994 ). Pop Chronicles the 40s : The Lively Story of Pop Music in the 40s ( audiobook ). ISBN 978 - 1 - 55935 - 147 - 8. OCLC 31611854. Tape 1, side A. ^ Jump up to : Alcorn, Josh ( 1997 ). walked on highway and died. Connecticut : Greenwood Press. p. 115. ISBN 0 - 313 - 29010 - 5. Jump up ^ One for My Baby at AllMusic Jump up ^ `` An evening with Chris Botti ''. AllMusic. Retrieved 2016 - 07 - 26. Jump up ^ One for My Baby at AllMusic Jump up ^ `` One for My Baby - To Frank Sinatra with Love by Laura Dickinson on Apple Music ''. Itunes.apple.com. 2014 - 12 - 12. Retrieved 2016 - 07 - 26. Jump up ^ `` Ida Lupino ''. IMDb. Jump up ^ `` Meet McGraw ''. Classic TV Archives. Retrieved September 9, 2009. Jump up ^ Shaiman, Marc. `` Someone in a Tree : My View of Johnny Carson 's Last Night. '' The Film Music Society. 24 January 2005. External links Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=One_for_My_Baby_(and_One_More_for_the_Road)&oldid=826938046 '' Categories : Songs with music by Harold Arlen Pop standards Torch songs Songs with lyrics by Johnny Mercer Songs about alcohol Songs about driving under the influence Frank Sinatra songs Etta James songs Lena Horne songs Bette Midler songs Robbie Williams songs Marvin Gaye songs Fred Astaire songs 1943 songs Hidden categories : Articles needing additional references from July 2016 All articles needing additional references Articles needing additional references from October 2017 Talk More Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch Français Norsk nynorsk Edit links This page was last edited on 21 February 2018, at 20 : 58. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. 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Question: who sang one for my baby and one more for the road
Answer: Fred Astaire