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Johnny Mercer

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Aliases
Johnny Mercer and His Orchestra
Real name
John Herndon Mercer
Born
November 18, 1909
Died
June 25, 1976
Country
United States
IPI
00020520152 181 works
20520152 2 works
00431195479 23 works
Affiliation
ASCAP
Comments
Songwriter, lyricist, and vocalist. He is the Founding President of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and inducted into it in 1971.
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Capitol Records   founder of
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Covers by Johnny Mercer

Title Performer Release date Originally by
February 1961 Chick Bullock & His Levee Loungers
  January 1947 Fred Astaire with Johnny Green and His Orchestra REL, Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians - Vocal Refrain by Carmen Lombardo & Trio REC, Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers BRD
listen on Internet Archive   November 1946 Tex Beneke with The Miller Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Tex Beneke and The Crew Chiefs REL, Bing Crosby with The Calico Kids and John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra REC, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson and Martha Vickers [dubbed by Sally Sweetland] BRD
  September 1946 Emma Carus PRF, Collins and Harlan REC
1974 Ruby Hill with "St. Louis Woman" Choral Group and Orchestra under the direction of Leon Leonardi
1974 Yves Montand BRD, Cora Vaucaire - Au piano : M. Philippe-Gérard REL, Jo Stafford with Orchestra conducted by Harold Mooney
  April 1949 Dinah Shore and Buddy Clark - Orchestra under the direction of Ted Dale REC, Ricardo Montalbán and Esther Williams BRD
listen on Internet Archive   May 1944 William Gillespie BRD, Artie Shaw and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain and trumpet by "Hot Lips" Page REC,REL
February 1961 Benny Goodman and His Orchestra
1937 Benny Goodman and His Orchestra
October 1945 (unknown)
1949 Cowboy Copas
1947 Harmony Dance Orch. (Ben Selvin)
  1974 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Sy Oliver REC, Ruby Hill, Harold Nicholas PRF
  1974 Henry Mancini, His Orchestra and Chorus REL, [Unknown Studio Artists] BRD
listen on Internet Archive May 1944 Benny Goodman and His Orch. - Vocal Refrain by Helen Ward
Doin' the Uptown Lowdown Dick Himber and His Essex House Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Johnny Mercer (Richard Himber, Johnny Mercer) 1933 Unverified
  February 1961 Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen and His Orchestra REL, Andrews Sisters BRD
Eeny Meeny Miney Mo Ginger Rogers and Johnny Mercer With Victor Young and his Orchestra (Ginger Rogers, Johnny Mercer, Victor Young) 1935 Unverified
August 1940 Bert Lahr & Ethel Merman
1974 Ted Wallace and His Swing Kings (Ed Kirkeby)
August 29, 1934 (unknown)
listen on Internet Archive February 1948 Tony Martin & Yvonne DeCarlo
December 1946 Hoagy Carmichael with The Chickadees and Vic Schoen and His Orchestra
February 1961 Wilbur Sweatman's Original Jazz Band
listen on Internet Archive I Don't Care If It Rains All Night Johnny Mercer with Paul Weston and His Orchestra 1948 Unverified
May 1947 Ed Lowry
February 1961 Peter Palmer, Mark Breaux, Ralph Linn, Jack Matthew, Robert McClure, Geroge Reeder
listen on Internet Archive   September 1946 (unknown), Clifton Webb PRF, Rudy Vallée and His Connecticut Yankees REC
February 1945 (unknown)
1943 "Fats" Waller and His Rhythm
1974 Fred Astaire & Rita Hayworth [dubbed by Nan Wynn]
February 1961 George J. Gaskin, Knickerbocker Male Quartette
  June 1945 John W. Bubbles PRF, Lawrence Tibbett REC,REL
1974 Dinah Shore with Orchestra
1949 Billy Murray
1974 Jackie Cain & Roy Kral
listen on Internet Archive May 1944 Johnny Mercer and His Orchestra - Vocal by Johnny Mercer and Six Hits and a Miss
listen on Internet Archive Jamboree Jones Johnny Mercer July 1949 Unverified
Jamboree Jones Johnny Mercer and The Pied Pipers with Paul Weston and His Orchestra May 1944 Unverified
1947 Edison Male Quartette
listen on Internet Archive 1939 Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Walter Hunt
  February 1961 Matt Mattox [dubbed by Bill Lee] BRD, The McGuire Sisters with Orchestra directed by Neal Hefti REC,REL
July 1948 Original Indiana Syncopators (Original Indiana Five)
listen on Internet Archive September 1946 Victor Military Band, (unknown)
1974 Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra
September 1946 Ernest Hare
February 1961 Paul Whiteman's Rhythm Boys
1947 Danny Daniels & Sheila Bond
  1974 Audrey Hepburn BRD, Henry Mancini and His Orchestra and Chorus REC,REL
1938 Arthur Fields and Bob Thomas
Covered by The Radio Times Orchestra
February 1961 Billy Jones and Ernest Hare
  September 1946 Lena Horne with Orchestra conducted by Horace Henderson REC,REL, Fred Astaire BRD
  1974 Lena Horne with Orchestra conducted by Horace Henderson REC,REL, Fred Astaire BRD
February 1961 Cliff Edwards PRF,REC,REL, Elizabeth Brice
August 29, 1934 Don Mayfield and Orchestra
  January 1946 Dinah Shore with Russ Case and His Orchestra REL, Dorothy Lamour BRD
listen on Internet Archive March 1944 Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra
1947 Harry Reser and His Orchestra
1974 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra, The Coasters
1950 (unknown)
  1938 Bing Crosby, Fred MacMurray, Donald O'Connor BRD, Hal Kemp and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Judy Starr REC
Somebody Bad Stole de Wedding Bell Johnny Mercer with the Paul Smith Trio and the Nobles (Johnny Mercer, Johnny Mercer) 1956 Unverified
  1974 Sammy Davis, Jr. - Orchestra directed by Sy Oliver REC, Fred Astaire BRD
listen on Internet Archive September 1946 Prince's Band
listen on Internet Archive August 1947 Leona Williams and Her Dixie Band
1974 Grethe Ingmann, Wayne Newton
  1974 Jesse Pearson REL, Bert Lahr & Julienne Marie PRF, Frank Sinatra - Arr. & Cond. by Don Costa REC
  1974 Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra REC, Bob Eberly, Helen O'Connell, and Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra BRD
1974 Glenn Miller and His Orchestra
The Dixieland Band Johnny Mercer and The Pied Pipers with Paul Weston and His Orchestra May 1944 Unverified
October 1947 Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen and His Orchestra
1949 (unknown)
February 1949 Byron Palmer, Allyn McLerie, Doretta Morrow, Dancer, Student and Young Ladies
listen on Internet Archive 1939 George Hall and His Hotel Taft Orch. - Vocal Chorus by Loretta Lee
November 1942 Charles Lewis Stine, Henry Whitter
listen on Internet Archive March 1943 Julia Sanderson and Donald Brian
  1974 Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Kenny Sargent REC, Ross Alexander [dubbed by James Newill] & Wini Shaw BRD
listen on Internet Archive July 1946 Samuel Ash
October 1943 Marion Harris
February 1961 (unknown)
listen on Internet Archive August 1947 Arthur Fields
November 1946 Richard Himber and His Ritz-Carlton Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Joey Nash
  1974 Bing Crosby with Bob Crosby and His Orchestra REL, Dick Powell BRD
  November 1946 Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye REC,REL, James Baskett BRD