100 Years Of Johnny Mercer, Pop Poet Laureate

A celebration of 100 years of Johnny Mercer.
If anyone can’t quite place him, you’ll know him by his lyrics of the 30’s & 40’s . His career was revived in the 1960’s when Henry Mancini asked him to write the lyrics to “Moon RIver”.
His catalog is pretty incredible. “Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive”, “On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe”, “One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)”, “Fools Rush In” and “That Old Black Magic”.
I remember many of these songs because they were in my parents record collection, but they were also standards performed in many of the TV variety shows I saw growing up.They are still great standards that you’ll hear in many a club.
This is a nod to the days when a lyricist worked with many composers and performers to craft a myriad of hits.
There’s a great NPR story here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120541054

Johnny Mercer

If anyone can’t quite place him, you’ll know him by his lyrics of the 30’s & 40’s . His career was revived in the 1960’s when Henry Mancini asked him to write the lyrics to “Moon RIver”.

His catalog is pretty incredible. “Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive”, “On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe”, “One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)”, “Fools Rush In” and “That Old Black Magic” and many, many others.

I remember many of these songs because they were in my parents record collection, but they were also standards performed in many of the TV variety shows I saw growing up.They are still great standards that you’ll hear in many a club.

This is a nod to the days when a lyricist worked with many composers and performers to craft a myriad of hits.

There’s a great NPR story here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120541054

More at Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mercer

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