Historians have tried to define the South, but few will leave you humming the Great American Songbook quite like Glenn T. Eskew does in Johnny Mercer: Southern Songwriter for the World (University of ...

Johnny Mercer, the Savannah songwriter with the gap-toothed smile, wrote songs with everyone from Duke Ellington to Sadie Vimmerstedt. Ellington you’ve heard of. Vimmerstedt, his unlikeliest partner, ...

Georgia has produced lots of music legends, and names like Otis Redding, Ray Charles, Little Richard, the Allman Brothers and Athens own B-52s and R.E.M. come quickly to mind. But before all of them, ...

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 ...

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 ...

As witness Signature Theatre's recent cabaret show "Out of This World," Johnny Mercer had only one peer as a lyricist: Cole Porter. Among the 1,500 songs to which Mercer supplied words that gave the ...