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Bethesda Softworks' 2015 video game, Fallout 4, features a clip of the song from a 1945 broadcast of Bing Crosby's Kraft Music Hall with John Scott Trotter and his orchestra. The last episode of the World War II British sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart was titled "Accentuate the Positive" in a reference to this song.
Short for positive music, posi music is categorized by its intention to have a positive effect on the listener. Musicians who write and perform posi music profess a desire for their music to unite and inspire their audience and make them feel better. An example is "Accentuate The Positive" written by Johnny Mercer and made famous by Bing Crosby ...
Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive: Harold Arlen: Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters No. 2 Billboard Charts 1945 1946 Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home: Harold Arlen 1945 Autumn Leaves: 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
"You've got to accentuate the positiveEliminate the negativeAnd latch on to the affirmativeDon't mess with Mister In-Between."-- "Accentuate the Positive," Johnny Mercer and the Pied Pipers, 1944 ...
The series was titled, The Bing Crosby Show. A Closer Look. As Bing Crosby noted in January 1965 about his then-new self-titled sitcom, "It’s been fun, and it hasn’t been too hard a chore. But ...
Everyone knows that businesses have ups and downs, good days and bad days. But even the most widely accepted conventional wisdom can't make an unprofitable earnings statement disappear, and when ...
The man was listening to Bing Crosby sing, "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive". I stopped and smiled in grateful acknowledgment. The Hindu nodded and smiled back. The whole world knew and loved Bing Crosby." [77] His popularity in India led many Hindu singers to imitate and emulate him, notably Kishore Kumar, considered the "Bing Crosby of India". [78]
The 20-year-old Mercer began to frequent the company of other songwriters and to learn the trade. He traveled to California to undertake a lyric writing assignment for the musical Paris in the Spring and met his idols Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong. Mercer found the experience sobering and realized that he much preferred free-standing lyric ...