#johnnymercer — Public Fediverse posts
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Yes! We Have No Bananas 🍌
#ThePiedPipers #JohnnyMercer
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Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive 🧘♀️
#JohnnyMercer
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Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive 🧘♀️
#JohnnyMercer
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"I Remember You" is a #popular song, published in 1941. The music was written by #VictorSchertzinger, with lyrics by #JohnnyMercer. The song was originally recorded by #JimmyDorsey in 1941. It has since been covered by #FrankIfield, #GlenCampbell, #Björk, #AlfredoCasero and others.
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"Autumn Leaves" is the English-language #lyricalAdaptation of the French song "Les Feuilles mortes" ("The Dead Leaves") composed by #JosephKosma in 1945. The original #lyrics were written by #JacquesPrévert in French, and in 1950 #JohnnyMercer wrote the English lyrics. An instrumental recording by pianist #RogerWilliams was a number one best-seller in the US Billboard charts of 1955. Since its introduction, "Autumn Leaves" has become a #jazzStandard.
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"Summer Wind" is a 1965 song, originally released in Germany as "Der Sommerwind" and written by #HeinzMeier and German language lyrics by Hans Bradtke. #JohnnyMercer re-wrote the song into English along the same themes as the original, which talked of the changing of the seasons using the Southern European #sirocco wind as a metaphor. In America, it was first recorded by #WayneNewton and subsequently by #BobbyVinton and #PerryComo.
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"You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" is a #popular song with music by #HarryWarren and lyrics by #JohnnyMercer, written in 1938 for the #WarnerBrothers movie #HardToGet, released November 1938, in which it was sung by #DickPowell. The biggest-selling hit version was recorded by #BingCrosby, with #BobCrosby and his orchestra while other contemporaneous hit versions included recordings by #TommyDorsey (with vocal by #EdytheWright) and #RussMorgan.
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Yes! We Have No Bananas 🆗
#ThePiedPipers #JohnnyMercer
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Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive 🧘♀️
#JohnnyMercer
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"He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" is a #ballad written by #BobbyScott and #BobRussell. Originally recorded by #KellyGordon in 1969, the song became a worldwide hit for #theHollies later that year and also a hit for #NeilDiamond in 1970. It has been recorded by many artists in subsequent years. The Hollies' version was re-released in 1988 and again was a major hit in the UK. Scott and Russell were introduced to each other by #JohnnyMercer, at a California nightclub.
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"Summer Wind" is a 1965 song, originally released in Germany as "Der Sommerwind" and written by #HeinzMeier and German language lyrics by Hans Bradtke. #JohnnyMercer re-wrote the song into English along the same themes as the original, which talked of the changing of the seasons using the Southern European #sirocco wind as a metaphor. In America, it was first recorded by #WayneNewton and subsequently by #BobbyVinton and #PerryComo.
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Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive 🚾
#JohnnyMercer
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50 years ago today, #JohnnyMercer, American singer, Academy Award-winning #lyricist ("Moon River"; "That Old Black Magic"; "And the Angels Sing": Come Rain Or Come Shine"), and record label executive (Capitol Records), died from an inoperable brain tumor at 66.
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Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive 🧘♂️
#JohnnyMercer
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Put 'Em Back
Song from the 1959 film version of L'il Abner (based on the Al Capp comic) composed by Gene de Paul with lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Yes, that is Valerie Harper + Beth Howard singing
#putemback #lilabner #bodybuilders #musical #musclemen #film #filmmusical #filmadaption #valerieharper #putembackthewaytheywas #thefifties #the1950s #johnnymercer #genedepaul
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"I Wanna Be Around" is a #popularSong credited to Sadie Vimmerstedt and #JohnnyMercer. In the lyrics, the singer declares that he "wants to be around" when the woman who spurned him inevitably gets her heart broken.
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"You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" is a #popular song with music by #HarryWarren and lyrics by #JohnnyMercer, written in 1938 for the #WarnerBrothers movie #HardToGet, released November 1938, in which it was sung by #DickPowell. The biggest-selling hit version was recorded by #BingCrosby, with #BobCrosby and his orchestra while other contemporaneous hit versions included recordings by #TommyDorsey (with vocal by #EdytheWright) and #RussMorgan.
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"In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" is a #popular song with music by #HoagyCarmichael, and lyrics by #JohnnyMercer. It was originally planned to feature it in a #ParamountPictures film written for #BettyHutton, that never took off, which was to be called The #MackSennett Girl, or Keystone Girl. The song was buried in Paramount's files until it was rediscovered and then used in the 1951 film #HereComesTheGroom and won the #AcademyAwardForBestOriginalSong.
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✧ St. Louis Woman ✧
St. Louis Woman is a 1946 American musical by Arna Bontemps and Countee Cullen, with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It is based on the novel God Sends Sunday by African-American writer Arna Bontemps. The musical opened at the Martin Beck Theatre in New York on March 30, 1946, and ran for 113 performances. Th...
#st. #louiswoman #newyork #counteecullen #johnnymercer #wikipedia
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"Moon River" is a song composed by #HenryMancini with lyrics by #JohnnyMercer. It was originally performed by #AudreyHepburn in the 1961 film #BreakfastAtTiffanys, winning an #AcademyAwardForBestOriginalSong. The song also won the 1962 #GrammyAwards for #RecordOfTheYear and #SongOfTheYear. In 1999, Mancini's recording was inducted into the #GrammyHallOfFame. The song has been recorded by many other artists. It became the theme song for #AndyWilliams.
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"Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" is a #popular song, published in 1944. The music was written by #HaroldArlen and the lyric by #JohnnyMercer. It was nominated for the #AcademyAwardForBestOriginalSong at the #18thAcademyAwards in 1945 after being used in the film #HereComeTheWaves.
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Yes! We Have No Bananas 🫐
#ThePiedPipers #JohnnyMercer
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"Fools Rush In" (1940) is a #popularSong. The lyrics were written by #JohnnyMercer with music by #RubeBloom. History of the song according to The Billboard, September 28, 1940 issue, page 34: Four years ago (1936) "Fools Rush In" was known as "Shangrila," composed by Rube Bloom and introduced in one of the production numbers at the Chez Paree, Chicago. Little was heard of it until this past summer when Rube played it for Bregman, Vocco and Conn.
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"Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" is a #popular song, published in 1944. The music was written by #HaroldArlen and the lyric by #JohnnyMercer. It was nominated for the #AcademyAwardForBestOriginalSong at the #18thAcademyAwards in 1945 after being used in the film #HereComeTheWaves.
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"Meglio stasera" (known in English as "It Had Better Be Tonight") is a 1963 song in #bossaNova rhythm with music by #HenryMancini, Italian lyrics by #FrancoMigliacci and English lyrics by #JohnnyMercer. It was composed for the 1963 film #ThePinkPanther, in which it was performed by #FranJeffries. In addition to the vocal performance, instrumental portions of the song appear in the film's underscore, sometimes as an introduction to the main "Pink Panther Theme".
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Yes! We Have No Bananas 🎱
#ThePiedPipers #JohnnyMercer
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"You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" is a #popular song with music by #HarryWarren and lyrics by #JohnnyMercer, written in 1938 for the #WarnerBrothers movie #HardToGet, released November 1938, in which it was sung by #DickPowell. The biggest-selling hit version was recorded by #BingCrosby, with #BobCrosby and his orchestra while other contemporaneous hit versions included recordings by #TommyDorsey (with vocal by #EdytheWright) and #RussMorgan.
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"Midnight Sun" was originally an instrumental composed by #LionelHampton and #SonnyBurke in 1947 and is now considered a #jazzStandard. Subsequently, #JohnnyMercer wrote the words to the song.
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@SocialCommentaryBot Interesting developments.
Contemporaneous reports of Mercer’s appearance remain available.
What i cannot quickly find is the result of Mercer’s bluster: was there ever a finding in a competent court? Even at the glacial pace of courts, one might expect a decision in six and a half years.