Description
He was an influential and multi-talented personality
Johnny Mercer, born in Savannah, Georgia, was a prolific and highly successful songwriter, contributing dozens of hits to the Great American Songbook, often as a lyricist, although his background was very different from most of his peers from New York's Jewish immigrant community. He was one of the co-founders of Capitol Records in 1942. He was also a singer, recording largely of course for Capitol, and recording mostly with the Pied Pipers vocal group and The Paul Weston Orchestra. This 50-track 2-CD collection features all his 29 career hits as an artist, plus other selected A & B sides from early Decca releases, and then from his Capitol singles during the 1940s. Among his hits were the No. 1s Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive', 'Candy', and 'Personality'. Along with The Pied Pipers and Paul Weston, it features performances with Bing Crosby, Jo Stafford, Margaret Whiting, The Benny Goodman Orchestra, The King Cole Trio, Freddie Slack's Orchestra, and Wingy Manone's Dixieland Band. He was an influential and multi-talented personality and this collection highlights what was maybe the lesser known side of his extraordinary contribution to pop music over the years.
Track Listing
Disc 1:- Mr. Gallagher And Mr. Sheen
- Small Fry
- Friendship
- Mister Meadowlark
- Strip Polka
- I Lost My Sugar In Salt Lake City
- The Old Music Master
- G.I. Jive
- I'm Gonna Sit Right Down & Write Myself A Letter
- San Fernando Valley
- Sam's Got Him
- Accentuate The Positive
- I'm Gonna See My Baby
- Candy
- On The Atchison, Topeka And The Sante Fe
- Conversation While Dancing
- Surprise Party
- Personality
- Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home
- My Sugar Is So Refined
- Ugly Chile (You're Some Pretty Doll)
- Winter Wonderland
- A Gal In Calico
- Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
- Huggin' And A-Chalkin'
- I Do Do Do Like You
- Moon-Faced And Starry-Eyed
- The Covered Wagon Rolled Right Along
- Cecilia
- Sugar Blues
- If I Had A Talking Picture Of You
- Save The Bones For Henry Jones ('Cause Henry Don't Eat No Meat)
- Harmony
- That’s The Way He Does It
- My Baby Likes To Be-Bop (And I Like To Be-bop Too)
- The Thousand Islands Song
- Hooray For Love
- Goofus
- I Don’t Care If It Rains All Night
- Louisville Lou (That Vampin’ Lady)
- One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)
- If I Knew Then
- The Tailgate Ramble
- Memphis Blues
- Would Ya? (eYah aYah eYah)
- The New Ashmolean
- Missouri Walkin' Preacher (With A Little Book In His Hands)
- Baby, It's Cold Outside
- At The Jazz Band Ball
- The Glow Worm
Additional Details
Label: Acrobat
Genre: Adult Contemporary/MOR
Language: English
Run Time: 144 mins
Region: 0
Release Date: 08/07/26
UPC: 824046360429