“One for My Baby and One More for the Road” by Frank Sinatra

"One for My Baby and One More for the Road" is a Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer song, and Frank Sinatra cut it for Only the Lonely, his fifteenth studio album, which Capitol released on September 8, 1958. Voyle Gilmore produced and Nelson Riddle arranged, and the credits run to a whole orchestra's worth of players, from strings, woodwinds and French horns to harp, guitar and double bass, with Bill Miller at the piano.

Only the Lonely was a torch-song album cut to the same pattern as In the Wee Small Hours and Where Are You?, and when the question came up at a party some time in the mid-1970s, Sinatra named it as his favorite of all his albums without a second's hesitation. Nicholas Volpe won a Grammy for painting its cover, which casts Sinatra as a glum clown.

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