I joined the Morning News in March 1956 the same day Johnny Mercer copyrighted "Old reporters never die, They gradually decline." That came along about halfway in this coffee table book of all coffee ...

Johnny Mercer provided 1500 lyrics for 230 different composers, undoubtedly the most versatile and adaptable writer in the Great American Songbook. He was alternately slangy and folksy, sophisticated ...

Lyrics of Johnny Mercer-- Coinciding with a new DVD devoted to the life and works of lyricist/composer/singer Johnny Mercer comes a book from Knopf titled "The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer," ...

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 ...

On Wednesday, prolific songwriter and singer Johnny Mercer would have turned 100. In his lifetime, he worked with more than 200 collaborators and churned out lyrics for more than 1,500 songs for both ...

Film director Clint Eastwood's love of jazz and American popular song is far from a secret, especially following his feature-length biopic about alto saxophonist Charlie Parker (Bird, 1988), during ...

Her first album was a tribute to her father. Monica Mancini’ssecondalbum is a tribute to the music of another legend. Johnny Mercer left a strong impression on the singer as she was growing up in a ...

Johnny Mercer may have been many things to many people, but all would agree that he was one of America's outstanding lyricists and composers. Born in Savannah, Ga., on Nov. 18, 1909, his association ...

A serendipitous convergence will make the next week doubly gratifying for people who cherish notable American songwriters — and would be receptive to recalling their careers by watching fond but also ...

Johnny Mercer, the Bard of Savannah, wrote or co-wrote perhaps 1,500 songs, including such standards as “Hooray for Hollywood,” “Moon River” and “Blues in the Night.” But he never mastered the art of ...