Written by Henry Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer for the 1961 film ... and has been covered numerous times since. For Mercer, the song is about childhood memories of picking huckleberries ...

the phrase was written by Johnny Mercer. The composer Harold Arlen described One for My Baby as a ‘tapeworm’, musical slang for a song that was longer than 32 bars. Bob Merrill wrote this one ...