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Mercer said that he struggled for a year after he got the music from Carmichael before he could get the lyrics right. [3] Mercer recalled that Carmichael initially called him several times about the lyrics but had forgotten about the song by the time Mercer finally wrote them. [4] The yearning expressed in the lyrics was based on Mercer's ...
Joseph Kosma, original French lyrics by Jacques Prévert (English lyrics written by Mercer) Title song sung by Nat King Cole from the film of the same name Autumn Leaves Roger Williams No. 1 Billboard Charts 1955 1957 Bernadine: Johnny Mercer Pat Boone (#1 Billboard charts for 1 week 1957 1941 Blues in the Night: Harold Arlen 1946 Come Rain or ...
The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer was published by Knopf [48] in October 2009. The Complete Lyrics contains the texts to nearly 1,500 of his lyrics, several hundred of them appearing in print for the first time. In November 2009, a bronze statue of Mercer was unveiled in Ellis Square in Savannah, Georgia, his hometown and birthplace. It was ...
Pages in category "Songs with lyrics by Johnny Mercer" ... Skylark (song) Summer Wind; T. Tangerine (1941 song) That Old Black Magic; This Time the Dream's on Me;
Mercer "Too Marvelous for Words" Whiting "I Thought About You" Jimmy Van Heusen "And the Angels Sing" Ziggy Elman "The Fleet's In" Schertzinger "G.I. Jive" Mercer "I'm Doin' It for Defense" Arlen "Tangerine" Schertzinger "Day In, Day Out" Bloom "Jeepers Creepers" Warren "That Old Black Magic" Arlen "Laura" David Raksin "You Go Your Way" Mercer
“In so many of these tracks—the rosy-cheeked ‘Polkadots And Moonbeams’ and the sublime violin-aided take on Hoagy Carmichael and Johnny Mercer’s masterful ‘Skylark’—it’s Dylan ...
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Song Book is a 1964 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra, focusing on the songs of Johnny Mercer. It was recorded in Los Angeles, California. This is Fitzgerald's fifth and final collaboration with Riddle during her years on the Verve label.
Two of a Kind is an album by American singer Bobby Darin and singer/composer Johnny Mercer, released in 1961.It was arranged and conducted by Billy May.The LP was recorded over four dates in August 1960, with several songs recorded on more than one occasion, and three songs not released on the album at all.