The Johnny Mercer Songbook (RCA); The Harold Arlen Songbook (RCA); The Hoagy Carmichael Songbook (RCA). Though the great American popular songs never die, the songwriters who wrote them seem consigned ...

At Dizzy’s Club, the host and curator, Deborah Grace Winer, observed that Johnny Mercer had a “truly American voice” as a songwriter, being at once “a folk poet” and also “a real urbane, snazzy ...

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The extremely likable lad, who puts a new show together every five or six years, has decided to focus on Johnny Mercer. That makes a good combo, since lyricist Mercer has one or two peers in the Great ...

2 HAIRSPRAY, NEWSIES and More Set for The Muny 2026 Season The evening will celebrate Mercer and his extensive American songbook, which include such classics as "Something's Gotta Give," "Dream," ...

Johnny Mercer was a prolific writer of lyrics, but some of his songs were never produced or recorded. Johnny Mercer wrote the lyrics to songs like "Moon River" and "Accentuate the Positive" — music ...

Lyricist and composer Johnny Mercer — born Nov. 18, 1909, in Savannah, Ga. — wrote or co-wrote more than 1,000 songs, including American Songbook standards like "Skylark," "That Old Black Magic" and ...

Margaret Whiting embraces the nickname “history on the hoof.” Far from being derogatory, it celebrates the daughter of a famous songwriter who sings famous songs she heard before they were famous — ...

November 18, 2009 • He wrote the words, and sometimes the music, for more than 1,500 songs, among them "Skylark," "Blues in the Night" and "Moon River." He had a few hits himself on Capitol Records — ...

Johnny Mercer was a complex man but, oh, how he could write lyrics. Mercer penned over 1,500 of them with 230 composers. You can learn about the music and the man through two shows at the Skokie ...