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Johnny Mercer
American lyricist, songwriter, singer (1909–1976)
John Herndon Mercer was an American lyricist, songwriter, and singer, as well as a record label executive who co-founded Capitol Records with music industry businessmen Buddy DeSylva and Glenn E. Wallichs.
awards: Academy Award for Best Original Song, Academy Award for Best Original Song, Grammy Award for Song of the Year, Academy Award for Best Original Song, Grammy Award for Song of the Year, Grammy Trustees Award, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Academy Award for Best Original Song
plays: piano, voice
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Early life
Mercer was born in 1909, in Savannah, Georgia, where one of his first jobs, aged 10, was sweeping floors at the original 1919 location of Leopold's Ice Cream. Mercer lived on Lincoln Street, a block away from the store's East Gwinnett and Habersham location.
Well regarded also as a singer with a folksy quality, Mercer was a natural for his own songs such as "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive", "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe", "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)", and "Lazybones". He was considered a first-rate performer of his own work.
American lyricist, composer, singer and record label executive who co-founded Capitol Records.
Born 18 November 1909 in Savannah, GA and died 25 June 1976 in Los Angeles, CA.
He co-wrote many songs with Henry Mancini.
When credited with Harold Arlen, please use the joint credit: Harold Arlen & Johnny Mercer.
He won four Academy Awards for Best Original Song. He was a co-founder of Capitol Records.
Also known as: C. J. Mercer, D. Merser, G. Mercer, H. J. Mercer, H. Mercer
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Liner notes
Johnny Mercer, the records, oldest first
Goodbye Sue / How Many Hearts Have You Broken / You’ve Got Me Where You Want Me
1944 ep
Songs by Johnny Mercer
1944 album
Strip Polka / Wreck of the Old 97 / Somewhere
1944 ep
Hawaiian War Chant / Jones Polka / My Sugar Is So Refined / Ugly Chile
1946 ep
Johnny Mercer and the Pied Pipers
1946 album
Tales of Uncle Remus
1947 album
Willard Robison's Deep River Music
1948 album
Johnny Mercer Sings
1950 album
... My Huckleberry Friend
1974 album
Two of a Kind
1990 album
Saint Louis Woman (original Broadway cast)
1992 album
Moon River: Johnny Mercer Sings the Johnny Mercer Songbook
2009 album
Records from MusicBrainz; covers from the Cover Art Archive.
