Johnny Mercer
Songs

Johnny Mercer

Section Title: Songs
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Date	Song title	Music by	Notes

1933	"Lazy Bones"	Hoagy Carmichael

1934	"P.S. I Love You"	Gordon Jenkins

1936	"Goody Goody"	Matty Malneck

1936	"I'm an Old Cowhand from the Rio Grande"	Johnny Mercer

1937	"Hooray for Hollywood"	Richard A. Whiting

1937	"Too Marvelous for Words"	Richard A. Whiting

1938	"Jeepers, Creepers!"	Harry Warren

1938	"You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby"	Harry Warren

1938	"When a Woman Loves a Man"	Bernie Hanighen, Gordon Jenkins

1939	"And the Angels Sing"	Ziggy Elman

1939	"Cuckoo in the Clock"	Walter Donaldson

1939	"Day In, Day Out"	Rube Bloom

1939	"I Thought About You"	Jimmy Van Heusen

1939	"Wings Over the Navy"	Harry Warren

1940	"Fools Rush In"	Rube Bloom

1941	"Blues in the Night"	Harold Arlen

1941	"I Remember You"	Victor Schertzinger

1941	"Tangerine"	Victor Schertzinger

1941	"This Time the Dream's on Me"	Harold Arlen

1942	"Moon Dreams"	Chummy MacGregor (co-writer)

1942	"Dearly Beloved"	Jerome Kern

1942	"Hit the Road to Dreamland"	Harold Arlen

1942	"I'm Old Fashioned"	Jerome Kern

1942	"Skylark"	Hoagy Carmichael

1942	"That Old Black Magic"	Harold Arlen

1942	"Trav'lin' Light"	Jimmy Mundy, Trummy Young

1943	"Dream"	Johnny Mercer

1943	"My Shining Hour"	Harold Arlen

1943	"One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)"	Harold Arlen	Theme for the 1957–1958 NBC detective series Meet McGraw

1944	"Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive"	Harold Arlen

1944	"G.I. Jive"	Johnny Mercer

1945	"Laura"	David Raksin

1945	"Out of This World"	Harold Arlen

1946	"Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home"	Harold Arlen

1946	"I Had Myself a True Love"	Harold Arlen

1946	"Come Rain or Come Shine"	Harold Arlen

1946	"On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe"	Harry Warren	For the film The Harvey Girls

1947	"Autumn Leaves"	Joseph Kosma, orig. French lyrics by Jacques Prévert

1951	"In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening"	Hoagy Carmichael	For the film Here Comes the Groom

1952	"I Wanna Be a Dancing Man"	Harry Warren

1952	"The Glow-Worm"	Paul Lincke

1953	"Satin Doll"	Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn

1954	"Midnight Sun"	Lionel Hampton, Sonny Burke

1954	"Something's Gotta Give"	Johnny Mercer

1956	"I'm Past My Prime"	Gene de Paul

1956	"Jubilation T. Cornpone"	Gene de Paul

1956	"Bernardine"	Johnny Mercer	For the film Bernardine

1956	"Technique"	Johnny Mercer	For the film Bernardine

1959	"I Wanna Be Around"	Johnny Mercer, Sadie Vimmerstedt

1961	"Moon River"	Henry Mancini	For the film Breakfast at Tiffany's

1962	"Days of Wine and Roses"	Henry Mancini	For the film Days of Wine and Roses

1962	"Drinking Again"	Doris Tauber

1963	"Charade"	Henry Mancini

1963	"Meglio stasera" (It Had Better Be Tonight)	Henry Mancini	For the film The Pink Panther

1964	"Emily"	Johnny Mandel

1964	"Lorna"	Mort Lindsey

1964	"Talk to Me, Baby"	Bobby Dolan	For the Broadway musical comedy Foxy

1965	"Summer Wind"	Henry Mayer

1970	"Whistling Away the Dark"	Henry Mancini	For the film Darling Lili

1973	"The Phony King of England"	Johnny Mercer	For the Disney film Robin Hood

1984	"When October Goes"	Barry Manilow	From 2:00 AM Paradise Cafe

1988	"If It Can't Be You"	Barry Manilow

1988	"At Last"	Barry Manilow

1988	"Heart of Mine, Cry On"	Barry Manilow

1988	"When The Meadow Was Bloomin' "	Barry Manilow	From With My Lover Beside Me (Nancy Wilson album)

1988	"Just Remember"	Barry Manilow	From The Complete Collection and Then Some...

1988	"Can't Teach My Old Heart New Tricks"	Barry Manilow	From The Complete Collection and Then Some...

Sentence(s)

In 1961, Johnny Mercer wrote the lyrics to "Moon River" in Breakfast at Tiffany's and to "Days of Wine and Roses" in the film by the same name. Both included music by Henry Mancini.

final_sentence: In 1961, Johnny Mercer wrote the lyrics to "Moon River" in Breakfast at Tiffany's and to "Days of Wine and Roses" in the film by the same name. Both included music by Henry Mancini.