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John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer (November 18, 1909 – June 25, 1976) was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer. He is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as those written by others. From the mid-1930s through the mid-1950s, many of the songs Mercer wrote and performed were among the most popular hits of the time. He wrote the lyrics to more than fifteen hundred songs, including compositions for movies and Broadway shows. He received nineteen Academy Award nominations, and won four. Mercer was also a co-founder of Capitol Records.

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Harry Connick Jr at the Johnny Mercer Theather, Savannah, Georgia Feb 27, 2007  (e)
Harry Connick Jr at the Johnny Mercer Theather, Savannah, Georgia Feb 27, 2007 (e)
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  • D'Angelico Guitars Shakes Up Music World By Resurrecting Iconic Models

    News Source: PRWeb | 6 months ago
    dangelicoguitars.com/" title="D’Angelico Guitars">D’Angelico Guitars announces a major expansion of its best-selling line of authorized reissues of iconic D’Angelico Guitar models during 2013. The effort will be supported by its “Reborn”
  • Letters

    News Source: London Review of Books | 9 months ago
    The first is an inability to look with much care at any view out of step with inherited convictions, as too upsetting to be fully registered. In this case, we have claims that I fail to attribute any political acumen or historical agency to Gandhi or
  • Museum cuts out local sculptors

    News Source: Boston Herald | over 1 year ago
    Historic Tours of America, the Florida-based for-profit company that began rebuilding the new Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum in April after a lightning strike destroyed the original site 10 years ago, has hired Susie Chisholm of Savannah, Ga., to

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  • A rag, a bone, and a hank of hair

    Blog Source: booksellersvsbestsellers.blogspot.com | almost 3 years ago
    Blues in the Night is a song I always associated with Lois Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, but it was written by Harold Arlen (born Chaim Arluck) and Johnny Mercer. So in fact, it was written by a Jew and a Southern white of Scottish ...
  • Accentuate The Positive

    Blog Source: moneyloveblog.com | almost 3 years ago
    At that tender age, of maybe four or five, I didn't really understand or pay much attention to the lyrics, which were written by the great lyricist Johnny Mercer (the music by Harold Arlen of Over The Rainbow fame). ...
  • Sings the Select Johnny Mercer | Frank Sinatra Music

    Blog Source: www.franksinatramusic.org | almost 3 years ago
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