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"Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" is a popular song which was published in 1944. The music was written by Harold Arlen and the lyrics by Johnny Mercer.The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 18th Academy Awards in 1945 after being used in the film Here Come the Waves.
Johnny Mercer Pat Boone (#1 Billboard charts for 1 week 1957 1941 Blues in the Night: Harold Arlen 1946 Come Rain or Come Shine: Harold Arlen 1939 Cuckoo in the Clock: Walter Donaldson: 1939 Day In, Day Out: Rube Bloom: 1962 Days of Wine and Roses: Henry Mancini: 1944 Dream: Johnny Mercer The Pied Pipers (Billboard charts in 1945)
In describing his inspiration for the lyrics, Mercer told the "Pop Chronicles" radio documentary "[my] publicity agent ... went to hear Father Divine and he had a sermon and his subject was 'you got to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative.'
"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 ...
1944 (39) While driving with songwriter partner Johnny Mercer came up with the song "Accentuate the Positive". 1945 (40) In a single evening's work in October with Johnny Mercer, came up with the song "Come Rain or Come Shine". 1949 (44) Collaborated with Ralph Blane to write the score for My Blue Heaven.
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Dream is a musical revue based on the songs of Johnny Mercer. ... "Accentuate the Positive" Arlen "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" Carmichael
The subject was "You got to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative". Mercer said, "Wow, that's a colorful phrase!" [12] [13] On his return to Hollywood, he got together with songwriter Harold Arlen ("Over the Rainbow"), and together they wrote "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive", which was recorded by Mercer and the Pied Pipers in 1945.