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Frank Sinatra - One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)

This 1954 recording of the familiar Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer song is a perfect one plus one. Where the more heavily orchestrated versions of this (including Sinatra’s other recordings) can feel too heavy, stripping it down to piano and voice puts this song right in its element.

Sinatra and pianist Bill Miller let this song breathe with their expressive, conversational take on it; listening to this is sitting with them late one autumn night in a warm, empty bar, putting off for just a few more minutes the moment when you have to step back outside into the cold.