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 184 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.
Related labels: Capitol Records founder of

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		Title	Performer	Release date	Covered by
		Jamboree Jones	Johnny Mercer and His Orchestra - Vocal by Johnny Mercer and Six Hits and a Miss	1937	(9 artists)
		On Behalf of the Visiting Firemen	Bing Crosby and Johnny Mercer with Victor Young and His Orchestra	1940	Ruth Olay - Orchestra conducted by Jerry Fielding
		Strip Polka	Johnny Mercer	June 29, 1942	(15 artists)
		I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City	Johnny Mercer with Freddie Slack and His Orchestra	November 1942	(12 artists)
		G.I. Jive	Johnny Mercer with Paul Weston and His Orchestra	1943	(13 artists)
		Ac-Cen-Tchu-Ate the Positive REC,REL	Johnny Mercer and The Pied Pipers with Paul Weston and His Orchestra	November 1944	(128 artists) Originally by Bing Crosby & Sonny Tufts BRD
		How Many Hearts Have You Broken	Johnny Mercer with Paul Weston and His Orchestra	November 1944	Unverified
		Candy	Johnny Mercer, Jo Stafford and The Pied Pipers with Paul Weston and His Orchestra	February 1945	(113 artists)
		On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe REL	Johnny Mercer and The Pied Pipers with Paul Weston and His Orchestra	April 1945	(53 artists) Originally by Bing Crosby with Six Hits and a Miss and John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra REC
		The Tailgate Ramble	Wingy Manone's Dixieland Band - Vocal Choruses by Manone & Mercer	October 1945	(25 artists)
		My Sugar Is So Refined	Johnny Mercer and The Pied Pipers with Paul Weston and His Orchestra	July 1946	(10 artists)
		Harmony	Johnny Mercer and The King Cole Trio	September 1947	Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme
		Save the Bones for Henry Jones ('Cause Henry Don't Eat No Meat) REL	Johnny Mercer and The King Cole Trio	September 1947	(14 artists) Originally by Cootie Williams and His Orchestra - Vocal by Bob Merrell REC
		That's the Way He Does It	Johnny Mercer and The Pied Pipers with Paul Weston and His Orchestra	December 1947	(3 artists)
		Love That Boy	Johnny Mercer and The Pied Pipers with Paul Weston and His Orchestra	July 1948	(2 artists)
		Baby, It's Cold Outside REL	Margaret Whiting & Johnny Mercer - Paul Weston's Orchestra	April 1949	(449 artists) Originally by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five REC, Ricardo Montalbán and Esther Williams BRD
		The Whatcha-Ma-Call-It	Johnny Mercer with Pete Moore and His Orchestra	1974	Lee Lessack