<Tr> <Th> Composer (s) </Th> <Td> Harold Arlen </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Lyricist (s) </Th> <Td> Johnny Mercer </Td> </Tr> <P> "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" is a hit song written by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer for the movie musical The Sky's the Limit (1943) and first performed in the film by Fred Astaire . It was popularized by Frank Sinatra . </P> <P> 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 ." </P>

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