One For My Baby (and One For the Road)

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I had posted on an earlier thread (http://www.whatsbestforum.com/showt...-any-format)-regardless-of-recording-quality) that Sinatra's version of this song was one of my top five of all time. I didn't realize until today that this Arlen and Mercer classic was introduced 70 years ago this month in a Fred Astaire movie "The Sky Is The Limit"...here is the video:


Here's a classic Sinatra rendition:


Finally here is some video of Baryshnikov's interpretation with Twyla Tharp's White Oak Project (begins at the !0:40 mark):

 

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