Billie Holiday - One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) Verve Records 1957
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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."
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.
Billy's accompanied by her orchestra, Harry Edison (trumpet), Ben Webster (tenor saxophone), Jimmy Rowles (piano), Barney Kessel (guitar), Joe Mondragon (bass), and Larry Bunker (drums). Recorded in Los Angeles, January 8, 1957. (Verve Records)
It's quarter to three
There's no one in the place, except you and me
So set 'em' up Joe, I've got a little story, you oughta know
We're drinking my friend to the end of a brief episode
Make it one for my baby
And one more for the road
I got the routine
So drop another nickel in the machine
I'm feeling so bad, I wish you'd make the music dreamy and sad
I could tell you a lot but you've gotta be true to your code
Make it one for my baby
And one more for the road
You'd never know it, but buddy I'm a kind of a poet
And I've got a lot of things to say
And when I'm gloomy, you simply gotta listen to mean
Until it's talked away
Well, that's how it goes
And Joe I know you're gettin' anxious to close
So thanks for the cheer, I hope you didn't mind, my bending your ear
This torch that I found must be drowned or it soon might explode
Make it one for my baby
And one more for the road
You'd never know it, but buddy I'm kind of a poet
And 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
Well, that's how it goes
And Joe I know you're gettin' anxious to close
So thanks for the cheer, I hope you didn't mind my bending your ear
This torch that I found must be drowned or it soon might explode
Make it one for my baby
And one more for the road
That long, long road
Diva, asombrosa, talentosa Billie.
Stunning voice, stunning Talent. She was the best, simple as that.
One of my favorite of all time Billie holiday song
Her grace, style, and getting to the point made this song a happy song for my listening!
And 1 more for the road, thankyou uploader 💕❤️🐅
Best version of this song I've found to date. Amazing--I love you Billie!
Frank.
@@ranmitrani3948 wrong. cab calloway's version is better than frank's
This lady was magnificent. No one like her. Her voice transport you to another dimension and makes you feel very sensual and sexy powerful and beautiful.
My God... Billie was so exceptional, and the gift to make you feel the mood of the song. Never again will there be another like her. simply stunning.
Billy Holliday has style,grace & a unique ingredient that is lacking nowadays sincerity…she pours out her heart & soul out with every lyric…this lady was a consummate artist a top shelf kind of girl…love her voice…take a listen,you will never be disappointed…Reeka.
Always appreciated the life and music of this great lady - such a unique tone to her voice - nice share Reeka!!:))
I sometimes line up 5 singers, including Mr. Sinatra and listen to all covers of this timeless, humble, relatable tune- to my ear and soul- ain't nobody does it like Lady Day- one of those ladies I sure wish I could have coffee with...Namaste
Sinatra's favourite vocalist, and his biggest influence.
When he heard of Lady Day's death he locked himself in a room for three days with a bottle of JD, weeping copiously over his copy of "Lady In Satin".
Aw. Wow. Poor Lady.
not true
Very true.
@@wallymc8938
WOW WOW WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From a mad keen 73yo Aussie fan.
Unsurprisingly, she makes it her own.
The exceptional backing of her sidemen (generously listed by the poster above, in the notes), didn't hurt the performance any.
I am in love with this song.."One for my baby..and one more for the road"..all i need is a man who loves me and hugs me no more but Billie Holiday has a honey voice..She was divine,sublime even if i can feel the sadness and torments in her voice...She was unique!
Frenchie séverine m
The hurt, combined with a world weary resilience.
Sad, deep and very sexy ...This is Billie Holiday!! For ever Diva!!
she was the anti-diva par excellence
And I have tears n my eyes every time I hear this.
Best version ever..of course, it's the great Billire Holiday!!!
Asombrosa, única, eterna. Dreamming and sad...
ME ENCANTA ! agradezco eternamente poder tener este privilegio.Recien lo descubri y estoy feliz .gracias de nuevo.
[1957] Harry 'Sweets' Edison (tpt) - Ben Webster (ts) - Jimmy Rowles (p) - Barney Kessel (g) - Joe Mondragon (b) - Larry Bunker (d)
Simply wonderful. I enjoy her later work more that the recordings from her heyday. Thanks for posting!
Although her voice has gone, shes still great. But never comparable to her early recordings. NEVER!
@Mrs.BiLLie_HoLiday congrats! On your success #1_4myBaby. Thank's i wiLL keep this song in heart doing my married time. Yes! i wiLL. #Tear's"R"aLLowed ; )
My Goddess.
Maravillosa melodía para decir adiós a la Vida.
@Me_LivingThis is a wonderFuL meLody. 2 a Poet from a Drunk! That's how it goes, Thank's for the cheer. One 4 my baby and one 4 the road. #Anxious2go!
one for my baby and one for the road to the next bar
ur evreything i need in my life Billie
Thanks Billie Aloha Foxy from Hawaii
Lovr.you.BILLY.IHAD.TOLETDIRM.EVRYSHABAT.FOR
ME
♥️💐
So set em" up Jo @BiLLieHoLiday Luv u gurL... i am feeLing sooo bad wit em not N my worLd, the start that i found end's wit U. One 4 my baby
NateI wonder why Amy Winehouse never covered this tune! Seems like the perfect match. Ya think she didn't want to compete with Billie? . Damn, I would LOVE to hear Amy sing this song!
Smokin......
If I ever saw a stripper dance to this my head would transform into a wolf in a zoot suit and I'd be howlin like a looney toon
Heroin in the 40’s Crack in 80’s . Saboteurs are amongst us.
Aretha was the queen;
But the queen mother was Billie
No singer can "cover" this song, and no one but Lady could get within a universe of what Frank did with it during virtually live performance. Yes, it's a lovely recording, but it won't make you forget Frank's versions -- he owns it in perpetuity. Look on youtube for an incredibly intimate 1962 live performance with a quartet at Royal Festival Hall. Yes, Lady and Prez were Frank's inspiration, but it's clear from this recording that she also dug Frank. And in her last recording sessions, she sang several songs associated with him.
An important fact that I slept through for 50 years is that the song is the work of two of the greatest of American song writers, composer Harold Arlen (Over the Rainbow) and lyricist Johnny Mercer. And I didn't know that it was introduced (in "The Sky's The Limit," a film that introduced another Arlen/Mercer standard, "My Shining Hour."
Why argue the point! Frank is great, but Billie owns this song!
Listen to Ben Webster and Sweets Edison in the background, adding so much to this great performance!
Muy buena versión,
Después de la de Frank ...
Think it is safe to say Amy Winehouse was acquainted with this tune.
Probably, considering her encyclopedic knowledge of jazz history. Cheap shot.
Also check out this great cover of the song by Luna Paige: ruclips.net/video/niO4aaxUqYI/видео.html
Dirk