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Johnny Mercer penned more than 1,500 lyrics and songs, published more than 750 and had hits with nearly 100!
He wrote his first song at 15 years old, a ditty titled "Sister Susie Strut Your Stuff". He called himself, "Everybody's lyric boy." For a list of Mercer related recordings, see 'Links'.

Here is a wonderful site on Mercer, with pictures of the original sheet music:
www.johnnymercer.com/sheets/sheets.htm

Here are some video clips from 'Breakfast at Tiffany's', with Audrey Hepburn and the song 'Moon River':
http://s119.photobucket.com/
http://www.myvideo.de/watch/1884907

'Too Marvelous for Words' is a fine songbook on Mercer, featuring 60 of his songs:

And here is the SHORT list of those 60 Mercer songs, published between 1933-1965:

THE SHORT LIST OF SONGS!:
Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive
And The Angels Sing
Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home
Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing In A Hurry
Autumn Leaves
Blues In The Night (My Mama Done Tol Me)
Bob White (Whatcha Gonna Swing Tonight?)
Charade
Come Rain Or Come Shine
Day In - Day Out
Days Of Wine And Roses
Dearly Beloved
The Dixieland Band
Dream
Drinking Again
Early Autumn
Emily
Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear To Tread)
G.I. Jive
The Glow Worm
Goody Goody
Here's To My Lady
Hit The Road To Dreamland
Hooray For Hollywood
How Little We Know
I Remember You
I Thought About You
I Wanna Be Around
I'm An Old Cowhand (From The Rio Grande)
I'm Old Fashioned


In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening
Jamboree Jones
Jeepers Creepers
Laura
Lazybones
Mandy Is Two
Midnight Sun
Moon River
My Shining Hour
Namely You
On Behalf Of The Visiting Fireman
On The Atchison, Topeka And The Santa Fe
One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)
Out Of This World
Pardon My Southern Accent
P.S. I Love You
Satin Doll
Skylark
Something's Gotta Give
Strip Polka
The Summer Wind
Tangerine
That Old Black Magic
This Time The Dream's On Me
Too Marvelous For Words
Trav'lin' Light
When The World Was Young
You Grow Sweeter As The Years Go By
You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby
You Were Never Lovelier

THE CO-WRITERS:
Harold Arlen (10 songs)
Philippe Bloch & Angele Vannier
Rube Bloom (3 songs)
Hans Bradtke & Henry Mayer
Sonny Burke & Lionel Hampton
Ralph Burns & Woody Herman
Hoagy Carmichael (4 songs)
Walter Donaldson
Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn
Ziggy Elman
Bernie Hanighen (2 songs)
James Van Heusen
Gordon Jenkins
Jerome Kern (3 songs)
Joseph Kosma & Jacques Prevert
Paul Lincke & Lilla Cayley Robinson
Matt Malneck (2 songs)
Henry Mancini (3 songs)
Johnny Mandel
Fulton McGrath
Jimmy Mundy & Trummy Young
Gene De Paul
David Raskin
Victor Schertzinger (3 songs)
Doris Tauber
Sadie Vimmerstedt
Harry Warren (3 songs)
Richard A. Whiting (2 songs)



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