[78-L] Happy 100th, Johnny Mercer

[Taylor Bowie]

Here is a real Johnny Mercer trivia question...what was the first record of 
any of his songs?  Off the top of my head,  I'd guess it's the High Hatters 
Victor of  "Out of Breath".

I would imagine I play the Mercer Capitol of "Personality" about once a 
week...what a fantastic Paul Weston studio band  with it,  along with the 
Pied Pipers at their Pied Piper Peak.    The song is Burke and Van Heusen, 
but it fits the Mercer style very well.    I think Johnny Burke's lyrics 
were often in the Johnny Mercer style,  and think perhaps they influenced 
each other in their writing.


Taylor



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cary Ginell" <soundthink at live.com>
To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 10:44 PM
Subject: [78-L] Happy 100th, Johnny Mercer


>
> Just finished watching a splendid 90-minute documentary on Johnny Mercer 
> that was produced by Clint Eastwood. An amazingly good job, 
> well-annotated, terrific video clips, and a fitting tribute to one of the 
> most prolific and stylish lyricists of the century. Mercer's 100th 
> birthday is coming up in a few weeks, so it would behoove every one of us 
> to pull out a Mercer record (or one on Capitol at least) and play it. 
> Wouldn't be hard to find one, either.
>
>
>
> Funny - coincidentally, I had just found a copy of Mercer's first solo 
> record - a 1934 pairing on Decca 142 of "Lord, I Give You My Children" (a 
> relative of "Mama Don't Allow" as he introduces members of his band: Jack 
> Teagarden, Dick McDonough, Sterling Bose) backed with "The Bathtub Ran 
> Over Again!" Mercer did a few vocals prior to that with the Whiteman and 
> Dorsey Bros. orchestras, but this was his first disc done under his own 
> name.
>
>
>
> Cary Ginell
>
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