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Johnny Mercer
Age: 66 (passed away Jun. 25th, 1976)
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Birth Place: Savannah, Georgia, USA
Born: Nov. 18th, 1909
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BIOGRAPHY: Johnny Mercer started his career as singer and songwriter for Paul Whiteman. He started writing songs for Hollywood in 1935, where he also had a few small parts in musicals. Among his famous songs is the inoffical anthem of Hollywood, "Hooray For Hollywood" that he wrote for the movie "Hollywood Hotel". He also had radio programs and made records, some with Bing Crosby.
TRIVIA:
- His music is featured prominently in the both the book and film: _Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)_ (qv), which was set in his birthplace Savannah, Georgia.
- He had a grandson, Jim Corwin, who was born in 1961.
- Two children, Amanda and John Jeff
- Graduate of Woodberry Forest School, Orange, Virginia (1927)
- His daughter married Bob Corwin, his musical stenographer and accompanist, in 1960.
- One of the legendary figures in the Great American Songbook, his work as a lyricist, and occasionally composer and lyricist, has produced such standards as: "Skylark," "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" (music by Hoagy Carmichael), "Blues in the Night," "One For My Baby," "My Shining Hour" (music by Harold Arlen), "Moon River," "Days of Wine and Roses," "Charade," "The Sweetheart Tree," "Moment to Moment," "Whistling in the Dark" (music by Henry Mancini), "On the Acheson, Topeka, and the Santa Fe" (music by Harry Warren), "Life Is What You Make It" (music by Marvin Hamlisch), "Jamboree Jones," "Dream," "Something's Gotta Give," and "I Wanna Be Around" (music and lyrics by Mercer).
- He adopted a son, John Jefferson "Jeff" Mercer in 1947. He was born April 5, 1947.
- Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1971.
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