Johnny Mercer
John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer (November 18, 1909 – June 25, 1976) was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer. He was also the founder of Capitol Records.
He is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as those written by others. From the mid-1930s through the mid-1950s, many of the songs Mercer wrote and performed were among the most popular hits of the time. He wrote the lyrics to more than fifteen hundred songs, including compositions for movies and Broadway shows. He received nineteen Academy Award nominations, and won four Best Original Song Oscars.
Early life
Mercer was born in Savannah, Georgia. His father, George Anderson Mercer, was a prominent attorney and real estate developer, and his mother, Lillian Elizabeth (née Ciucevich), George Mercer’s secretary and then second wife, was the daughter of a Croatian immigrant father and a mother with Irish ancestry. Lillian's father was a merchant seaman who ran the Union blockade during the U.S. Civil War. Mercer was George's fourth son, first by Lillian. His great-grandfather was Confederate General Hugh Weedon Mercer and he was a direct descendant of American Revolutionary War General Hugh Mercer, a Scottish soldier-physician who died at the Battle of Princeton. Mercer was also a distant cousin of General George S. Patton. The construction of Mercer House in Savannah was started by General Hugh Weedon Mercer in 1860 (although never finished by him; the next owners of the house finished it), later the home of Jim Williams, whose trial for murder was the centerpiece of John Berendt's book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Neither the General, nor Mercer himself, ever lived there.
Johnny Mercer (politician)
John Luther Mercer is a British Conservative politician. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Plymouth Moor View after winning the seat in the 2015 general election.
Education
Mercer was educated at Eastbourne College, a co-educational independent school in Eastbourne in East Sussex, followed by RMA Sandhurst in Berkshire.
Life and career
Mercer is a former British Army Officer, and graduated from Sandhurst in 2002. After completing his studies at school, he opted to spend time working as an intern in the City of London instead of attending university. Mercer rose to the rank of Captain in the 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery, where he served in military campaigns in Afghanistan.
According to Mercer he had never even voted before standing as an MP. He has stated he entered politics with a view to improving veterans' care and felt he was a Conservative because he regarded a "massive welfare state that saps the ambition and drive of a younger generation" as a problem. After contacting ex-military Conservative MP Bob Stewart he was eventually selected as the candidate for Plymouth Moor View.
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ALBUMS
- Clint Eastwood Presents: Johnny Mercer "The Dream's on Me" released: 2009
- Mosaic Select: Johnny Mercer released: 2007
- Two of a Kind released: 1990
- The Capitol Collector's Series released: 1989
- The Best Of released:
- My Huckleberry Friend released:
Clint Eastwood Presents: Johnny Mercer "The Dream's on Me"
Released 2009- Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive
- Trav'lin' Light
- That Old Black Magic
- Midnight Sun
- Something's Gotta Give
- I Had Myself a True Love
- I Wanna Be Around
- My Shining Tour
- Blues in the Night
- Laura
- Spring, Spring, Spring
- I'm Old Fashioned
- Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home
- This Time The Dream's on Me
- Dream
- I Thought About You
- Two of a Kind
- Skylark
Mosaic Select: Johnny Mercer
Released 2007- They Didn't Believe Me
- The Old Music Master
- G.I. Jive
- Dixieland Band
- Jamboree Jones
- San Fernando Valley
- Someone's in the Kitchen With Dinah
- The Tailgate Ramble
- (Love's Got Me in a) Lazy Mood
- Duration Blues
- Sam's Got Him
- It Ain't Necessarily So
- Evelina
- I'm Gonna See My Baby
- Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive
- Camptown Races
- Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
- Surprise Party
- If I Knew Then
- Sweet Lorraine
- By the River St. Marie
- He Should'a Flip'd When He Flop'd
- Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home
- Li'l Augie Is a Natural Man
- It's a Good Day
Two of a Kind
Released 1990- Two of a Kind
- Indiana
- Bob White
- Ace in the Hole
- East of the Rockies
- If I Had My Druthers
- I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None of My Jellyroll
- Lonesome Polecat
- My Cutey's Due at Two-To-Two Today
- Medley: Paddlin' Madelin' Home / Row, Row, Row
- Who Takes Care of the Carpenter's Daughter
- Mississippi Mud
- Two of a Kind
The Capitol Collector's Series
Released 1989- Strip Polka
- I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City
- G.I. Jive
- Blues in the Night
- Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive
- Candy
- I'm Gonna See My Baby
- On The Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe
- Surprise Party
- Personality
- My Sugar Is So Refined
- One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
- Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
- A Gal in Calico
- Winter Wonderland
- Moon-Faced, Starry-Eyed
- Sugar Blues
- Save the Bones for Henry Jones ('Cause Henry Don't Eat No Meat)
- Glow Worm
- Baby It's Cold Outside
My Huckleberry Friend
- You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby
- Little Ol' Tune
- Moon River
- I Wanna Be in Love Again
- The Days of Wine and Roses
- Talk to Me, Baby
- Goody, Goody
- Summer Wind
- Little Ingenue
- Something's Gotta Give
- Satin Doll
- It's Great to Be Alive
- That Old Black Magic
- Tangerine
- The Whatcha-Ma-Call It
- The Midnight Sun
- I'm Old Fashioned
- Come Rain or Come Shine
- Too Marvelous for Words
- Autumn Leaves
- Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home
- The Air-Minded Executive
- Pinapple Pete
- I Thought About You
- One for My Baby
Born: 1909-11-18
Died: 1976-06-25
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Button Up Your Overcoat
by: Johnny MercerListen, big boy,
Now that you got me made,
Goodness, but I'm afraid,
Somethin's gonna happen to you!
Listen, big boy,
You gotta be hooked, and how,
I would die if I should lose you now!
Button up your overcoat,
When the wind is free,
Take good care of yourself,
You belong to me!
Eat an apple every day,
Get to bed by three,
Oh, take good care of yourself,
You belong to me!
Be careful crossing streets, ooh-ooh,
Cut out sweets, ooh-ooh,
Lay off meat, ooh-ooh,
You'll get a pain and ruin your tum-tum!
Wear your flannel underwear,
When you climb a tree,
Oh, take good care of yourself,
You belong to me!
Button up your overcoat,
When the wind is free,
Oh, take good care of yourself,
You belong to me!
Boop-boop-a-doop!
When you sass a traffic cop,
Use diplomacy;
Just take good care of yourself,
You belong to me!
Beware of frozen ponds, ooh-ooh,
Stocks and bonds, ooh-ooh,
Peroxide blondes, ooh-ooh,
You'll get a pain and ruin your bankroll!
Keep the spoon out of your cup,
When you're drinking tea,
Oh, take good care of yourself,
You belong to me!
Don't sit on hornet's tails, ooh-ooh!
Or on nails, ooh-ooh!
Or third rails, ooh-ooh!
You'll get a pain and ruin your tum-tum!
Keep away from bootleg hooch
When you're on a spree,
Oh, take good care of yourself,
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