ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE by Johnny Mercer & The Pied Pipers. Words by Johnny Mercer and music by Harold Arlen. Though Johnny Mercer & The Pied Pipers did a studio version of this song on the Capitol Records label, located in Hollywood, this is a live version recorded in approx. mid 1945. Johnny Mercer wrote ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE, as well as, several other songs, many of which, became hits of the day. He was an excellent singer , with a style similar to that of Woody Herman or Tex Beneke.

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Johnny Mercer and Bing Crosby sing

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Anybody with any interest in the popular music of the 20th century should watch this. One of the greatest lyricist ever, Johnny Mercer's career covered four decades. Working with dozens of different composers, he wrote the lyrics to an astonishing number of hits. Truly one of the major architects of the great American song book.

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......Johnny Mercer sings his own composition "Somethings Gotta Give"......

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Baby its cold outside beautifully sung by Johnny Mercer and Margaret Whiting. Contrary to the mass of information and downloadable music displayed on the internet, which is all totally incorrect!! This video portrays the true artists who both sang and recorded this song. Yes it is John Mercer and Margaret Whiting and NOT Doris Day and Bing Crosby. After extensive research this is 100% confirmed and the information, LP and origonal song sheet have been picture copied and included in this video.. Please link to this video if possible and let the world know who the true artists are, for this very famous song.

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Johnny Mercer sings You Belong to Me

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A clip from the rosemary clooney show with johnny mercer and the hi-lo's. Clark plays the clarinet.

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"Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive" was written with music by Harold Arlen ("Over The Rainbow", et.al.) and lyrics by the grand master, Johnny Mercer. Mercer recorded the song on Oct. 4, 1944 with Paul Weston's Orchestra and vocal backing by the Pied Pipers. The recording was released during the Christmas season of 1944 right around the end of the Battle of the Bulge during WW2, and was a smash hit on into 1945.

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A brief video clip from 'Clint Eastwood Presents Johnny Mercer: The Dreams On Me'. Judy & Johnny shared a relationship for over 30 years ... She was, in every sense of the word, his Muse ... inspiring his love & creativity. In Greek mythology, the Muses inspired the creation of music, poetry & literature. Judy wrote poetry. She sang songs. She told stories. With these gifts, she created the POWER TO INSPIRE. Shakespeare wrote: "Be thou the tenth Muse, ten times more in worth than those old nine ..." Judy is ten times more in worth. Johnny Mercer knew this, & wrote a song for her 'I Remember You'. "I wrote it for Judy Garland. I always had such a crush on Garland I couldnt think straight, so I wrote this song." Savannah Georgia born man-of-music Johnny Mercer is a recognized composer-lyricist, a vocalist, and a star-discoverer. Mercer won four Academy Awards for his 'Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe', 'In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening', 'Moon River', and 'Days Of Wine And Roses'.This bard of Tin Pan Alley wrote his first song at fifteen years old, and in the years since he composed more than 1500 songs with more than 750 published, and scored hits with nearly 100. Admired and praised by the likes of Irving Berlin and Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer has been described as one of our great folk poets and the most perfect American lyricist. Throughout his extraordinary career, he collaborated with hundreds of composers. Mercer then went on to co-found Capitol Records in 1942 and <b>...</b>

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Johnny Mercer and Nat King Cole sing

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Johnny swing out with "GI Jive" on Command Performance 20-05-1944

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Johnny Mercer singing Walkin' in a Winter Wonderland. Comment, Subscribe, and enjoy :) x

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Here Is The Andrews Sisters & Bing Crosby Singing Accentuate The Positive Circa 1940's

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Personality - Johnny Mercer

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Here's a song that Johnny Mercer sang but did NOT write, but he has always been associated with it. "Candy" was published in 1944 with music by Alex Kramer and lyrics by both Mack David and Joan Whitney. It was a huge national hit during World War II for Johnny who recorded this with Jo Stafford and the Pied Pipers, and they took it to #2 on the charts in February of 1945.

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Johnny Mercer's Centennial Celebration is intended to serve as a portal into the rich, lyrical world that Mr. Mercer created, to show how the songs of one man continue to light creative fires in today's music scene.

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Song "two of a kind" by Bobby Darin and Johnny Mercer with the Billy May's big band. La cançó "two of a kind" de Bobby Darin i Johnny Mercer amb la orquestra de Billy May. www.carlesferreira.blogspot.com.es Lyrics - Lletra: Two of a kind For your information We're two of a kind Two of a kind It's my observation We're two of a kind Like peas in a pod And birds of a feather Alone or together you'll find That we are two of a kind What's so wrong thinkin' life is a song and reachin' for a star And who's to say if we'll go the whole way - at least we got this far Sharin' our lot, our fiddles and feons, we're two of an ilk Say, what if we've got rare Chateaubriands or crackers and milk Makin' it plain Explainin' it fully We're simila-la-larly inclined Because we're two of a kind Two of a kind When he's out of rhythm, I'm singin' off key (I never heard ya do that, John) Say, never you mind, cause I'm stickin' with 'im, to C above C (Ah, easy for me) Oh, need we explain When he warbles sweetly, I'm flat and completely behind Because we're two of a kind I get kicks when I meet the cute chicks who hang around his lair And especially when they whisper to me, "Hey, honey, who's your dad?" Two of a sort Like two pomegranates from off the same tree I'm with ya sport, whatever you plan it's-a goes double with me (It's-a goes double with you, huh?) (Yeah!) Yeah, I got a terrible thought Most frightfully upsetting And yet we are getting resigned To being two of a kind We're two of a kind <b>...</b>

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Clark Burroughs from The Hi-Lo's sings with Johnny Mercer at the Rosemary Clooney Show

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New Album itunes.apple.com Satin Doll Duke Ellington/Johnny Mercer/Billy Strayhorn cover Johnny Ace Baritone Sax vocal tdal007 Cigarette holder which wigs me Over her shoulder, she digs me. Out cattin' that satin doll. Baby, shall we go out skippin? Careful, amigo, you're flippin', Speaks Latin that satin doll. She's nobody's fool so I'm playing it cool as can be. I'll give it a whirl but I ain't for no girl catching me, Switch-a-rooney! Telephone numbers well you know, Doin' my rhumbas with uno And that 'in my Satin Doll.

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Sue Keller on piano playing Lazy Bones (1933) by Johnny Mercer & Hoagy Carmichael as part of Sue's Tribute to Johnny Mercer songs for the Lisle, IL public library February 13, 2011 using a Bose L1 sound system. also see intro: www.youtube.com

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Second part of this fabulous documentary on one of the greatest lyricists of all time. Featuring Ray Charles Dinah Shore Hoagy Charmichael Clint Eastwood and many others.

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Sue Keller on piano playing Jeepers Creepers (1938) by Johnny Mercer & Harry Warren as part of Sue's Tribute to Johnny Mercer songs for the Lisle, IL public library February 13, 2011 using a Bose L1 sound system.

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Filmed & Edited by New York City actor turned filmmaker Michael Stever, It's almost impossible to go a day without hearing a Johnny Mercer song. Tunes like "Moon River," "Blues In The Night," and That Old Black Magic" are woven into the fabric of American life. He wrote more than 1500 songs in a career that spanned nearly fifty years. His work appeared in over 90 films and he was nominated for eighteen Academy Awards, winning four. Mercer wrote six Broadway shows, and was himself a top radio personality and recording artist. He co-founded Capitol Records, and nurtured the talents of musical legends such as Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra, and Nat King Cole. In celebrating songwriter Johnny Mercers 100th birthday, COME RAIN OR COME SHINE musically applauds the writers Southern gumption, timeless appeal, Gatsby style, creative inspiration,Huckleberry Friend affability, and charming songs in a slick, yet comfortably impromptu cabaret revue. The COME RAIN OR COME SHINE cast includes Klea Blackhurst (Time Out New York Special Achievement Award: Everything The Traffic Will Allow), Jim Caruso (six-time MAC Award Winner & Liza's At The Palace), Christine Ebersole (Tony Awards: Grey Gardens & 42nd Street), Billy Stritch (Grammy: Does He Love You? and two Grammy nominations for Liza Minnelli's Gently cd) and award-winning jazz violinist Aaron Weinstein.

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Miss Sherman, that gifted singer and pianist, has been performing a tribute to Johnny Mercer on Monday nights at the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel in New York City. On June 8, 2009, I captured her and her able colleagues -- that's Wycliffe Gordon on trombone and vocal, James Chirillo on guitar, and Boots Maleson on bass -- performing one of my favorite Mercer songs, THE BATHTUB RAN OVER AGAIN, a sweetly tender love song about what romantic ardor can do to the neighbors downstairs. (Daryl and Wycliffe do this song on Daryl's new Arbors CD, which is -- of course! -- a tribute to Mercer, who would have turned 100 this year Recorded by Michael Steinman. See and hear more at www.jazzlives.wordpress.com.

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This is my favourite version of the song !

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At 1:36 the singers identify themselves in this order: "Johnny Mercer, Peggy Lee, Benny Goodman, Margaret Whiting, the Pipers and the Weston Band" (ie, the Pied Pipers & Paul Weston's Orchestra). Benny Goodman comes in with his clarinet at 2:05. This recording was made on September 12, 1947. (More information and pictures here: www.lincoln-highway-museum.org ) From the CD, "Peggy Lee: The Lost 40s and 50s Capitol Masters." From Wikipedia: The 1947--1949 Freedom Train was proposed by Attorney General Tom C. Clark as a way to reawaken Americans to their taken-for-granted principles of liberty in the post-war years. The idea soon got the approval of President Harry S. Truman and everything else fell into place. Top Marines were selected to attend to the train and its famous documents; the Marine contingent was led by Col. Robert F. Scott. The train carried the original versions of the United States Constitution, Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights on its tour of more than 300 cities in all 48 states. As Alaska and Hawaii did not gain statehood until 1959, this train toured all of the US States that existed at the time. It was the first train to visit all 48 contiguous states (the 1936 Rexall Train had come close, but missed Nevada). (More information here: en.wikipedia.org ) Berlin started writing this song on Tuesday, May 22, 1947, and completed it that following weekend. On the Tuesday following the weekend, Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters recorded it <b>...</b>

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"Laura" is a 1945 popular song composed by David Raksin, with lyrics written by Johnny Mercer from the 1944 movie Starring Gene Tierney and Dana Andrew It has since become a jazz standard with over four hundred known recordings.The best known versions are by Dick Haymes, Charlie Parker, JJ Johnson, Woody Herman, Frank Sinatra and Julie London (included on her album Julie Is Her Name). It was adapted from the theme of the 1944 film, Laura. Notable recordings Eric Winstone and His Band Song: Alan Lane. Recorded in London on June 6, 1945. It was released by EMI on the HMV Records label as catalogue number BD 5893 Billy Eckstine with the Bobby Tucker Quartet. Recorded July 23, 1952 - Los Angeles (Album from 1984: Everything I Have Is Yours / The Best Of The MGM Years) Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Songbook (1964) Frank Sinatra - From his album Where Are You? Trini Lopez - From his album The Love Album Charlie Parker - "From his album Charlie Parker with Strings"

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"Winter Wonderland" is a winter song, popularly treated as a Christmas time pop standard, written in 1934 by Felix Bernard (composer) and Richard B. Smith (lyricist). Richard was reportedly inspired to write the song after seeing Honesdale's Central Park covered in snow. Mr. Smith had written the lyrics while in the West Mountain Sanitarium, being treated for tuberculosis. The original recording was by Richard Himber and his Hotel Ritz-Carlton Orchestra on RCA Bluebird in 1934. At the end of a recording session with time to spare, it was suggested that this new tune be tried with an arrangement provided by the publisher. This excellent "studio" orchestra included many great New York studio musicians including the legendary Artie Shaw. Due to its seasonal theme, "Winter Wonderland" is often regarded as a Christmas song in the Northern Hemisphere, although the holiday itself is never mentioned in the lyrics. There is a mention of "sleigh-bells" several times, implying that this song refers to the Christmas period. Parson Brown The bridge of the song contains the following lyrics: "In the meadow we can build a snowman, then pretend that he is Parson Brown. He'll say 'Are You Married?' We'll say 'No man, but you can do the job when you're in town!" In the period when this song was written, parsons (now known as Protestant ministers) often traveled among small rural towns to perform wedding ceremonies for denominational followers who did not have a local minister of their own <b>...</b>

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This song may not be quite politically correct today, but I thought I'd post it because I like it. Johnny Mercer was well established by 1942 as a great lyric writer and he had a good singing voice which never really changed much as he got older

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Marilyn Maye performs a medley of songs by Johnny Mercer, accompanied by Ted Firth on piano and Steve Doyle on bass, at Jim Caruso's Cast Party at Birdland, NYC, June 15, 2009.

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This is a very smooth version of "Blues In The Night" from Command Performance 09-09-1943

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This is a slide show of my family. This is one of five that I made for my Mom & Dad. If you enjoy, your welcome. It is a great song anyway.

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Originally recorded by Glen Miller and Frank Sinatra (1940). Other recordings include Doris Day and Jo Stafford.

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Judy sings this delightful melody with Johnny Mercer on the Personal Album #76 radio show. May, 1943.

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visit my webpage - www.joolsscott.co.uk "Moon River" is a song composed by Johnny Mercer (Lyrics) and Henry Mancini (Music) in 1961, for whom it won that year's Academy Award for Best Original Song. The phrase "Huckleberry friend" was explained by Mercer in an interview with Terry Gross...

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Sue Keller on piano playing Dream (1945) by Johnny Mercer as part of Sue's Tribute to Johnny Mercer songs for the Lisle, IL public library February 13, 2011 using a Bose L1 sound system.

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Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Johnny Mercer, and Carol Lawrence all get together and play an early version of six degrees of Kevin Bacon. It's a connect the songwriters game. From Bing's 10/5/60 show. "I Want to Be Happy" / "Great Day" / "I Found a Million Dollar Baby" / "On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe" / "That Old Black Magic" / "Over the Rainbow" / "Old Devil Moon" / "Feudin' and Fightin'" / "South American Way" / "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" / "I Won't Dance" / "Long Ago and Far Away" / "A Foggy Day" / "Swanee" / "I Want to Be Happy"

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A great song by Johnny and The Pied on Command Performance 25-12-1945

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Johnny & Jo give us their version of "Conversation While Dancing" on Command Performance 10-01-1946

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THE PLEASURE OF YOUR COMPANY RECORDED IN 1974

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"Personality" was written by Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen and introduced in the 1946 film "Road To Utopia" where it was sung by Dorothy Lamour. That same year Johnny Mercer and the Pied Pipers recorded this hit version of it.

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A great duet from these two prominent Whiteman members

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Honors for this video (6) #37 - Most Discussed (Today)) - Germany #4 - Most Discussed (Today)) - Music - Germany #84 - Most Discussed (Today)) - Music #32 - Most Discussed (This Week)) - Music - Germany #91 - Top Rated (Today)) - Germany #17 - Top Rated (Today)) - Music - Germany This is one of my best vocal performances ever, I think. I felt totally united with the song. In fact, this recording gave me the idea to my original "I AM SONG". I was absolutely taken by singing "Moon River" and kept singing it all day. Never have I felt so comfortable with a song. In the end, I had numerous recordings and all of them are close to me. This is the one, where I firstly felt like not only singing, but being the song. And it´s also due to the magnificent playing of Lucamadeus. So sensitive and just beautiful. Here´s his channel: www.youtube.com Grazie a te, Luca. It was a marvellous experience to me. And that´s why I´ve hesitated to publish the song. I´ve recorded it half a year ago in my "pre-hat-phase". I was having tears in my eyes all the time and thought, maybe this is too private. But I´m here to share my joy of singing and so here are tears and tones of joy. André :-) PS. "Moon River" is a song composed by Johnny Mercer (lyrics) and Henry Mancini (music) in 1961, for whom it won that year's Academy Award for Best Original Song. It was originally sung in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's by Audrey Hepburn, although it has been covered by many other artists. The song also won <b>...</b>

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