Johnny Mercer. Classic or God or Devil or Neil Tennant

*sigh* Johnny Mercer is the sound of love.

There is an excellent compilation of various artists doing the songs. Midnight in the garden of good and evil is a johnny mercer soundtrack. Ella Fitzgerald does a song book as well.

Your just too marvellous, too marvellous for words, like glorious, glamorous...

Why arent song lyrics like this written anymore?

Oh, but they are, they are.

I'm with you, ty. For a moment there your title had me worried - I thought this was going to be another rubbish thread about the silly old Pet Shop Boys. I was wrong. The fellow Mercer is fabulous, and you are on a silver dollar to be bringing him up.

what do you think, pinefox and fellow mercer fanatic??? (I went to savannah just to go and hang out...)

Would have been his hundredth birthday last week, November 18. Would have been Hoagy Carmichael's 110th on Sunday the 22. Did not hear one version of "Skylark" or "In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening."

It's about the right time of year to pull out the Johnny Mercer/Margaret Whiting version of "Baby, It's Cold Outside".

Haha I almost revived that other thread.

Which is this one: This is not Bing... nor Doris for that matter

coincidentally i'm currently digging that wilfrid sheed book you mentioned in that thread. it's a good read.

I watched the opening credit sequence of Breakfast at Tiffany's on TCM (the highlight of the film).

Apparently "My huckleberry friend" was an accidentally leftover line from the lyrics for an earlier version, "Blue River."

Lot of controversy over that huckleberry.

When you finish that book, tipsy, I might have some other recommendations.

Hooray for Hollywood!
That screwy, ballyhooey Hollywood!
Where any office boy
Or young mechanic
can be a panic
With just a good-looking pan
And any shop girl
Can be a top girl
If she pleases the tired business man

Hooray for Hollywood!
You may be homely in your neighborhood.
To be an actor
See Mister Factor
He’ll make your kisser look good!
Go out and try your luck
You could be Donald Duck
Hooray for Hollywood!

Are they singing that at Sony these days