Artist:Billie Holiday
Song:One For My Baby (And One For The Road)
Album:First Issue:The Great American Songbook
If you don't want to spring for Verve's massive 10CD Billie Holiday box set, you might want to try this 2CD comp issued to commemorate the Billie Holiday postage stamp. One For My Baby was a Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer song mostly associated with Frank Sinatra. But Billie's 1956 version created quite a visual picture especially if you consider her personal demons. One can almost visualize Billie sitting at a bar singing this song with a drink in her hand. It was originally on the 1957 LP Songs For Distingue Lovers which Verve rereleased in an expended CD version in 1997. Musicians include Harry "Sweets" Edison on trumpet, Ben Webster on tenor sax, Jimmy Rowles on piano, Barney Kessell on guitar, Red Mitchell on bass and Larry Bunker on drums. Of course Billie Holiday was still addicted to heroin when she died on July 17, 1959 at age 44. Here's a video tribute to Billie Holiday set to the tune of One For My Baby from a photographer named Dean Hickstein. If you check his Youtube page, he's a little obsessed with this song but it's a good video.
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