Robbie Williams - One for My Baby - Live at the Albert - HD

"One for My Baby" 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. "One for My Baby" is the theme song of the 1957-1958 NBC detective series, Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy.

Fred Astaire dancing on a bar counter in "One for My Baby" from The Sky's the Limit (RKO Radio Pictures, 1943)
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[citation needed]. 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."[2] 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 soundtrack to the film 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.

[crazygirl]

Live in front of an audience, with a big band - no autotune - no second chances = perfection

[martinepstein]

Classic from composer Harold Arlen and especially the lyricist Johnny Mercer, one of the greatest of them all

[bobkovylistek]

He's not about to laugh, he's smiling. And that is a big difference. By his expression you (at least I and many other perceptive viewers) you can tell that he knows what he's singing about and that he's an intelligent and kind man. That is what I see.

[truthful]

Good job Robbie, you did that song justice !!

[epl]

this concert made me a fan of Robbie.

[PaulMercer]

This is a very emotive song which many famous artists have performed. I don't think they should be compared because each performer does it in their own way. Robbie's version is as are many other versions. ...but for those narrow minded enough to believe there is only one version.... then all you need to do is go and listen to which version you believe in. Simple as that..!

[melodygrey]

Pure Class needs to sings more songs like this.

[laANiiTah]

Oh my god, there's so much life into his eyes

[giveittomenow]

Absolutely Brilliant

Fantastic Voice

Love You Robbie

[Lilybop]

Wow. I've always LOVED Frank Sinatra's version, and this is awesome, too! Kudos!

[thespiangirl]

Rob was only 27 here. A remarkable concert by anyone, especially someone so young.

[robertsmith-ohmo]

This this one song that every guy over 45 can relate to having experienced at it least once in his life.

[BerryVamp]

Robbie drifts through the song like a cool breeze of fresh air in a wind of poetry, song, lyrics, melody and harmony.

[ivydog]

Such a talent .  We don't hear enough from him now days he needs to reinvent himself.

[louarmagno]

A very nice rendition, well performed!

[RpattzLub]

God. I love this man. He's gorgeous.

[angeluomo]

Worthy of the Chairman himself. Bravo Robbie.

[Vernostonus]

It was a tribute show to honor the glorious rat pack, the guys which he admired much as a young boy - and you can say what you want, but: they would have liked it and maybe smiled down from heaven :-)

[gustavosergio]

He just sing like the great artist, That he is!

[tdjdk]

Well, it's not like anybody can compete with frank and dean, but it IS VERY nice to see a few modern crooners