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By Will Friedwald 'Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me," a new documentary produced by Clint Eastwood (which airs Wednesday, Nov. 4, on Turner Classic Movies, two weeks before the songwriter's centennial on the 18th), begins with archival footage of two... Full Article at Wall Street Journal
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Johnny Mercer: Songwriter would be 100 this month. Songwriter Johnny Mercer died in 1976, but his words live on in such enduring tunes as Skylark, Blues in the Night, One for My Baby, I'm Old Fashioned and Moon River. Full Article at USA Today
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At the Oscars, April 1962: Presenter Debbie Reynolds with Henry Mancini, left, and Johnny Mercer, best-song winners for Moon River. Full Article at USA Today
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Johnny Mercer, the Savannah songwriter with the gap-toothed smile, wrote songs with everyone from Duke Ellington to Sadie Vimmerstedt. Full Article at AccessAtlanta
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A lot of what you can do in a documentary is dictated by archival footage ... Mercer did a lot of (TV in the '60s and '70s), and he was just a fascinating guy.
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worked with over 200 composers. He'd hear a melody on the radio and call up the composer and say, 'Mind if I write the lyric for that?'
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He was a Southern boy who became part of a very sophisticated world
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I called (Mercer) Mr. Americana ... I loved his writing so much I recorded 42 of his songs.
