Artist: Fred Astaire
Author: Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer
Label: RKO Radio Pictures
Year: 1943
In film The Sky's The Limit as a pilot on leave, singing this song in a bar for Joe, the barkeeper: 'So set 'em up, Joe'; ending up loaded on top of the counter with glasses collapsing all over. Academy Award winning song. Mercer wrote it while in love with Judy Garland, who married composer David Rose instead.
Covers:
Johnny Mercer [author]
Frank Sinatra [and in '54 in film Young At Heart]
Ida Lupino [in film Road House]
Jane Russell [in film Macao]
Yoka Berretty [as Op De Valreep]
Robbie Williams [with 84 year old Bill Miller, who played piano on Sinatra's version]
Toots Thielemans [with Jamie Cullum]
The second part is set in a higher key, making the singer sound tipsier than he already is.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
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