[yousofine]

Does your name start with the letter G - J (inclusive)?

Q&A

Have you featured or been represented in forms of art other than Songs and Movies?

[nerdslinger]

Does the title of the song have three words or more?

Was the song written especially for the original movie it was in (as opposed to the movie using an existing song)?

[FRKJ]

Is the song you’re mentioned in from a Fred Astaire movie?

Have Madonna, Britney Spears, Bruce Springsteen, Bryan Adams, or Johnny Cash ever sung this song?

[nerdslinger]

Was the song originally performed from 1940-1949 (inclusive)?

[ams_chick]

Does your name begin with a "J"?

Was the song originally performed by Fred Astaire himself?

Are you Joe from "One for my Baby"?

[mrvictor]

Well done lordimpaler! Yes, Joe, the bartender from the song 'One for my baby (and one more from the road)'

The song starts like this:
It's quarter to three
There's no-one in the place
'Cept You and me.
So set 'em up Joe,
I've got a little story
I think you should know
We're drinking my friend,
To the end, of a brief episode
Make it one for my baby, and one more for the road

It's not the orginal, but my favourite version is by Frank Sinatra



"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 further popularized by Frank Sinatra.

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."

Sinatra recorded the song several times during his career: In 1947 with Columbia Records, in 1954 for the film soundtrack album 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. At a Johnny Carson-hosted Rat Pack concert at the Kiel Opera House in St. Louis in 1965, Sammy Davis Jr., backed by Quincy Jones conducting the Count Basie Orchestra, performed the song imitating the styles of successively Fred Astaire, Nat King Cole, Billy Eckstine, Vaughn Monroe, Tony Bennett, Mel Tormé, Frankie Laine, Louis Armstrong, an inebriated Dean Martin, and Jerry Lewis.


Here is the (spectacular) original with Fred Astaire



I just love these kinds of songs with stories inside them

[raindrops]

lordimpaler discovered in 8 questions that we were looking for Joe and receives 40 wrz$.
mrvictor tortured you - not too much - for 60 questions and receives 300 wrz$
Congrats, you two!


Now lordimpaler is invited to start the next round after sending me a pm for the approval of the subject matter.

ROUND 76

1. bun_4eva - Are you real? Yes
2. yousofine - Are you human? Yes
3. FRKJ - Are you a man? Yes
4. mrvictor - Were you born in Europe? Yes
5. bun_4eva - Are you still alive? No
6. ams_chick - Were you alive in the 20th century? No
7. yousofine - Were you alive in 18th or 19th century? No
8. FRKJ - Were you a political or religious figure? Yes
9. bun_4eva - Were you an artist? No
10. ams_chick - Were you alive in the 16th or 17th centuries? No
11. mrvictor - Were you born in Italy, France or Spain? No
12. FRKJ - Were you born in Britain, Germany or Belgium? No
13. nerdslinger - Has a movie ever been made about your life? No
14. bun_4eva - Were you a political figure? Yes
15. mrvictor - Were you alive during the 12th, 13th, 14th or 15th centuries? Yes
16. ams_chick - Were you alive for more than 50 years? No
17. FRKJ - Were you ever imprisoned? Cannot say yes or no.
18. bun_4eva - Did you die of natural causes? Cannot say yes or no.
19. yousofine - Were you alive during the 12th or 13th century? No
20. ams_chick - Were you born in a Scandinavian country? No
21. FRKJ - Were you born in an Eastern European country? Yes
22. bun_4eva - Were you famous during the Renaissance period? Yes
23. nerdslinger - Were you a Holy Roman Emperor? No
24. ams_chick - Were you born in Estonia, Latvia, or Lithuania? No
25. mrvictor - Are you Vlad III, (AKA Vlad the Impaler, or Vlad Dracula)? No (I am, but not in this game. I was wondering how long this guess would take though. XD)
26. bun_4eva - Were you from Russia? No
27. FRKJ - Are you Yury Dmitrievich / Yury of Zvenigorod? No
28. ams-chick - Were you born in Armenia, Azerbaijan, or Georgia? No
29. mrvictor - Were you born in (what are now) Hungary, Romania or Bulgaria? Yes
30. bun_4eva - Regarding question 18, were you not able to say yes or no because the cause of your death was unclear or could not be proven? Yes
31. FRKJ - Are you Mircea the Elder / Mircea I of Wallachia? No
32. nerdslinger - Were you a member of the monarchy (or its equivalent) in your country? Yes
33. mrvictor - Were you born in what is now Romania? Yes
34. bun_4eva - Are you Stephen the Great of Moldavia? No
35. FRKJ - Are you Dragoș, also known as Dragoș Vodă, or Dragoș the Founder? No
36. nerdslinger - Are you Radu Negru? No
37. ams_chick - Are you Basarab I of Wallachia? No
38. mrvictor - Is your name often followed (on Wikipedia at least) by ‘of Wallachia’? No
39. FRKJ - Does you first name start with the letter A - K (inclusive)? No
40. bun_4eva - Are you Michael the Brave (Mihai Viteazul)? No
41. nerdslinger - Are you one of the princes of Transylvania? No
42. mrvictor - Were you a member of the Moldavian royal family? No
43. FRKJ - Does you first name start with the letter L - Q (inclusive)? No
44. ams_chick - Does you first name start with the letter R - V (inclusive)? Yes
45. bun_4eva - Were you born in Wallachia? Yes
46. Espress1 - Are you Theodore Vejtehi? No
47. nerdslinger - Are you Stefan Razvan? No
48. FRKJ - Are you Vladislav I of Wallachia? No
49. mrvictor - Are you Radu III, (Radu the handsome)? Yes

Are you real?

[yousofine]

Are you human?