Billie Holiday "One for my Baby (and one more for the road)"
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- It's quarter to three, there's no one in the place
Except you and me
So set 'em' up joe, I got a little story you autta 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 know the routine, put another nickel
In the machine
I'm feelin so bad, I hope they make the music
dreamy and sad
I could tell you a lot, but it's not
In a gentleman's 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 poet
And i've got a lot of things i'd like to say
And if i'm gloomy, please listen to me
Till it's talked away
Well that's how it goes, and joe i know your gettin'
Anxious to close
Thanks for the cheer
I hope you didn't mind
My bending your ear
But this torch that i found, it's gotta be drowned
Or it's gonna explode
Make it one for my baby
And one more for the road
Writen by Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen.
Originally writen for Fred Astaire.
Many artist have recorded One For My Baby including Frank Sinatra, but the first time I ever heard this song was when Bette Midler sang to Johnny Carson on his final Tonite Show. I also have the Lena Horne version on a 78 that I play on my 1917 Victor Victrola. All verions are beautiful in their own way but no one creates a mood like Lady Day.
Sinatra said that Billie had a way "of living in the interior" of her songs and that was one of the reasons her singing and recordings were so powerful.
Fine praise indeed...
I can smell the gin, the lingering cigarettes and the floral perfumes in a dim lit lounge...i was so born in the wrong era.
Mzlogic2011 you hit that SHIT rite on the head, time machine please
I can smell the drug. The musty, earthy smell of it and taste the blood. I can feel her pain and I can feel her relief.
You and me both...
If there's a lounge in Heaven, I'll be there, front and center, nursing the blues with a whisky, and Billie as the headliner.
I fell in love with Billie when I was 12 after seeing "Lady Sings the blues". I researched the real Lady Day and discovered that my dad, a jazz enthusiast, had an orginal 78 recording of hers- "I cover the waterfront". It is now in my collection. Priceless. She died just weeks before I was born in '59. I've always felt some kind of strange connection- maybe it's just an understanding of her melancholy music.
The original blues angel, just love her still. Thank you RUclips for bringing her to me to hear, an 84yearold blues fan.
I hope you are still so elegant and smiling while you listen to this great song.
Likewise my music loving friend, THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU is always comforting for me
Her placement of words in phrases in sentences in the whole thing is impeccable and makes the song unique. Her musical phrasing is equally exceptional. She has to be the greatest singer of the 20th century in the genre of jazz and standars..
We might as well close shop now. No use listening to other music after hearing Billie as there is no comparison.
She suffered but she was/is the best. Love you Billie.
relaineau SO TRUE !!!!
Frank Sinatra sings this so great!! She sings it good too. She has that lazy kind of voice that draws you in. Wow!!!
The version that had Sinatra (her biggest fan) on his knees.
Wow I would love to search my roots and find that this beautiful lady was in my family!!!! There are not many if any women of her caliber alive anymore. Ms. Horne gone, Ethel Waters, Bessie Smith....etc the singers today could only wish they could REALLY sing!!!! ( I hate talking aobut their personal lives, I am talking about their class, style, legacy to the black race) thanks for this post!
Classic song written by Harold Arlen who also composed Over the Rainbow for the movie Wizard of Oz
Get Happy, My mama done told me (blues in the night),off the top of my head. One of the true great composers of the great American Songbook.
I've always loved this special, beautiful, talented, and tortured lady!
The greatest drinking song aver written.
about drinking or about lonelines,solitude?
This is simply the best interpretation of this song, bar none. Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and all the well-knowns used to sit in the clubs where Miss Billie played to listen and learn. Her phrasing was perfection, her interpretation kickass and wonderful, and Lady Day just took no prisoners when she sang that song. Rest in peace, sweet lady, and thank you from the heart for all the precious gifts of song. No one has ever done you better!
I like Lena Horne 's version ( performed on the Ed Sullivan show) best.
While this version is nice, it's likely to put some to sleep---
While Lena Horne 's version is more likely to wake you up.
Long week... requires a long bar... smell of tobacco...old fashioned crystal glass, running empty of fine gin.. and this magic voice of hers!
that's a noir movie, my dear
No music before or since has been as heartbreakingly personal, and delivered with such talent and taste.
I would've loved to see Lady perform this on a TV show. I can just picture her sitting at a bar with cigarette smoke filling the air, and her singing to a bartender with a drink in her hand.
This is absolutely sublime. I love the small changes she makes with the printed lyrics because it makes it much more personal and poignant. I never really liked Frank Sinatra for some reason despite having read that he was very inspired by Holiday in her phrasing etc. Perhaps I just prefer female voices...I don't know because I like a lot of other male vocalists. In any case - she makes this song her own and it is a great pleasure to listen to.
I sincerely hope that someone told her how much meaningful her life meant to everyone and how beautiful she is/was, inside and out.
No artifice, just the Truth, the emotional truth. Unique, exceptional, unforgettable.
Artistry.
there was no finer story teller...just the facts no bull.....
Exquisite. The next time you play this recording (and there will be a next time), follow the piano. There's a conversation going on among the musicians and Lady Day.
her voice sounds like an instrument
John H that's what she said she was going for in an interview
"I wanted sound like Louie Armstrong played"
It was an instrument
It was an instrument that can never be replicated
there will never be another like her..amazing
She is a true singer on the facts of life and on mans trials and tribulations. May your music last forever.
Billie Holliday sang with her heart though her voice sounds blue and sad.
One of her greatest recordings, Frank Sinatra eat your heart out!
I totally agree. God Bless the Child gets is a favorite but even it can't hold a candle to this. The lady owns it.
Will you please stop comparing and just enjoy good music?
Yes, Billie owns this song!!!
Billie's version is great but NO ONE tops Frank Sinatra.every other version is destined to be vastly inferior.
Absolutely adore Billie's voice and this rendition.
I prefer Lena Horne's performance on the Ed Sullivan show
Those earrings at 1:59 Awesome!! She had style.
Hello! Una voz muy grande entre las tres mejores del siglo XX ...¡maravillosa!
So classy... simply wonderful!! ♥♫
Beauty Is As Beauty Does..Marvelous Billie never forgotten.. 2020 sounds still Amazing
The Queen of the blues
Such and beautiful voice
Thanks for posting
Never knew this version existed!! incredible!!!!!!
Heartbreaking Perfection. Whoa...just makes me want to cry.
I agree, this is the version !
Great pictorial history. Thanks for sharing.
She wore her music. It was her life. Lady truly sang the blues.
beautiful, one of the best of hers , thanks so much for the quality upload.
when I pass , play this at my wake
A fantastically written tune! Billie moves me with her rendition. I also like Lena Horne's take on the song and of course Sinatra sings the definitive version(in my opinion).
mike curt With all due respect to Sinatra, for me, the definitive version belongs to Billie. She wraps her soul around it, as if the song was written for her. Incidentally, Billie's record her version more than a year before Sinatra's more celebrated version, at the same recording studio (Capitol) in Los Angeles. A classic tune interpreted by two great artists in their own inimitable ways.
TheBilliefan Hey, I didn't know that Billie recorded her version prior to Sinatra's. Billie wrapped her soul around just about every tune she recorded! :-) The lyric to me always seemed to be reflective of a man's point of view and therefore more effective when sung by a male vocalist. Obviously, the song works either way, whether sung by a male or female...I Just love Sinatra's version best!lol
mike curt I guess we can both say that Billie and Frank sang their own definitive versions. I think it's a song that both sexes can sing effectively with the right interpreter. Lena's version is also sublime, but Billie (as you so rightfully said) truly wrapped her soul around just about every tune she recorded.
This belongs to Billie. Sinatra doesn't come close.
Michael Anderson Will you please stop comparing and just enjoy the good music?
i can feel her pain , the music . dreamy and sad , and yet , truly awesome
Fabulous performer backed by fabulous musicians
The greatest jazz singer ever..Period...
+Ben Liley get a life then pull your head out and live it or is this it
Jeffrey Hernandez Ben Liley is brainless troll not to be taken seriously..
Ben Liley Replying suddenly to a post 10 months old ????? .. God, do you wake up and say "Today I will be an idiot", or does it just come naturally ? Now go troll at 12 yearoldswithgeneticdisorder .com or something. you spooge guzzling, garbage eating deluded limey, your interrupting a serious discussion between humans !
Any attempt to discuss jazz music with you would be more complicated than teaching Einsteins relativity theory to a chimpanzee !!!!
love it!
My Favorite version of this tune period.
Билли Холидей❤️💎черная жемчужина!роскошный джаз!обожаю вас!❤️
My heart is aching. There is only one Lsdy Day.
WHat an Amazing lady she was....a sweet...laid back voice...you cant help but get mellow when you hear her sing this song !!!
good song ,luv it and thanks 4 da lyrics
Billie always has a separate part in my heart.
Madam Billie, thanx for the voice. God bless your soul. :)
I've sung jazz and blues for years and Billie is my favorite. Never really been able to get into "soul" except for good dance music, but I can feel what she feels.
God, her warm, autumn, soft voice gives me so much pleasure... it's unbelievable, divine.. I love to be an audiophile and have an oportunity to know this voice!
I'm definitely getting a Billie Holiday tattoo, considering having 'one for my baby, and one more for the road' on it.
what did you end up getting?
She is truely amazing.....
Whenever I have one for the road, I also have one for the white line as well.
Lady Day ,the only and never forgotten . great trumpet backing . kids will never grow up with real classic blues today.
This is song is a masterpiece. If you see the version Bette Midler sang to Johnny Carson, it will make you tear up. She was so sincere in her words to Johnny, even he shed a tear or two. It was on his last night on the Tonight Show.
I will never forget her.
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned that Ella has also done a superb version.
My dad had a great taste in music and thankfully he passed his tastes onto me. Billy was just wonderful
Her voice is amazing!
Thank all of you that post these amazing artists. I am only now discovering these wonderful genres and they are timeless and priceless. Thank you.
this is the definitive version of this song song by the great Billie Holiday.
Whenever a Billie Holiday song comes on I'm forced to stop, close my eyes and just listen to the magic.
And that's what it is.......magic !
Lady day pours her heart out ,
When I am feeling low and need to reenergize my mind, body and soul this is the angel I listen to. Sorry Mrs Holiday but it's you're fault because, the first note I heard from you I fell in love with you. An amazing woman with an amazing talent!
The one & only "Lady Day" !
John Knottenbelt Thanksgiving to my knowledge of her gift..STILL
THE LADY WAS THE BEST !!
Can't believe I hadn't listened to this before. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.
Nuff love and raspect to the Lady B!
I love you girl.
RIP. X
You are so right, brother Dean. Thanks for this.
Wonderful Billie Holiday !
her voice is immortal
Quite right, Cindy... But, well, you know, it's quarter to three...
Blague à part, love that tune... The Sinatra video is very "poetic", the
Astaire (and original) one is very dancing and glass killing (love the hat picking and door slamming). Heard it first by Billie. Je l'aime :)
This is the best mix of Billie Holiday I've come across on-line. Every song, a hit song.
Fantástica Billie!!
OMG some of the best music
Man I love Billie Holiday so much.
She is and always will be the Queen of jazz, Thanks for the great posting!
she got so much soul in her voice.
wonderful & the lyrics
she`s just a Legend
this song for my baby somewhere I don't know..
You said it! This lady was greatness personified.
i agree, ive heard several versions but Billie gives it that special something
Delightful
Su manera de separar las frases, su fraseo era de lo mas original, su gran sentido musical le permitia asincopar, salirse del tono y volver, Genial Billy, pobrecita tan gran artista y fue vìctima de la denigrante enmaraña de la droga., Me hace acordar hoy, a Winehouse, ups!
WONDERFUL! THANK YOU!!!
MAGINFICA MUSICA Y CANTANTE , ME TRANSPORTA A MIS AÑOS JOVENES
Great Billie...like italian Mina, the only two best jazz singer ever!!!
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For my eyes and ears there's no greater Lady as Lady Day.
Truly she lived it; her voice tells it so. No one can doubt the truth of her experience as it comes through her voice as she sings.
there are just too many reasons why i am in love with this song
Yes, thats right. This will get older every year, but she will always be one of the finest singers ever to me.
Estupenda!, brava!!."The First Lady of Jazz" que nos siga cantando el "blues"...!!!
The beginning sounds like Heartbreak Hotel by Elvis
Änderungen rückgängig machen
Wonderful voice!
So much feeling and emotion. What a voice!
That's some Motherly singing, right there
Poor woman was crashing and burning. All very well to say that hers was still a beautiful voice but it wasn't... She was dying... Booze... Smack... and Sadness. Love the music but see the damage.
Yes i can feel melancholy in the lyrics and just hearing Billie's voice too.I think she had a very miserable life full of illusions and sorrow. She was brilliant anyway; Unforgettable woman!
no Billie wasn't Saad, she sang jazz and blues, it's a different sound, my Dad taught me alot about this music. Thank God!
Her elegant visage, almost regal, belies the tragedy which was her personal life.