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Johnny Mercer Videos

NME Video: Johnny Foreigner at Leeds Festival '08

NME Video: Johnny Foreigner at Leeds Festival '08

NME Video: Johnny Foreigner at Leeds Festival '08

Johnny Marr Interview

Johnny Marr Interview

Johnny Marr talks 'Manchester Anthems' and his part in the new Cribs album.

NME Video: The Cribs and Johnny Marr

NME Video: The Cribs and Johnny Marr

Mid-afternoon at Leeds Festival,The Cribs and Johnny Marr found time for a quick chat with NME Video...

Ibiza Rocks: Johnny Foreigner

Ibiza Rocks: Johnny Foreigner

Check out the clip from this indie rock trio!

NME Video:Jack Daniel's Birthday Sessions - Johnny Foreigner

NME Video:Jack Daniel's Birthday Sessions - Johnny Foreigner

This month NME Radio plays host to Jack Daniel's Birthday sessions in honour of the whiskey connoisseur's birthday. Watch footage with Johnny Foreigner who recently came into the studio to perform live, exclusIvely...

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YouTube Johnny Mercer Videos

The Pied Pipers & Ernie Felice Quartet - Dream (Johnny Mercer)

The Pied Pipers & Ernie Felice Quartet - Dream (Johnny Mercer) (03:25)

The Pied Pipers in their 1951 formation (left to right: Chuck Lowry, Louanne Hogan, Clark Yocum and Hal Hopper) in a musical short (known back then as "Snader Telescriptions") filmed in 1951 by Louis D. Snader. Words...

Johnny Mercer: Centennial Celebration

Johnny Mercer: Centennial Celebration (07:02)

Johnny Mercer's Centennial Celebration is intended to serve as a portal into the rich, lyrical world that Mr. Mercer created, to show how the songs of one man continue to light creative fires in today's music scene.

JUDY GARLAND & JOHNNY MERCER, 'THE DREAMS ON ME'. A LOVE AFFAIR.

JUDY GARLAND & JOHNNY MERCER, 'THE DREAMS ON ME'. A LOVE AFFAIR. (03:03)

A brief video clip from 'Clint Eastwood Presents Johnny Mercer: The Dreams On Me'. Judy & Johnny shared a relationship for over 30 years ... She was, in every sense of the word, his Muse ... inspiring his love &...

Johnny Mercer and The Hi-Lo's

Johnny Mercer and The Hi-Lo's (03:57)

A clip from the rosemary clooney show with johnny mercer and the hi-lo's. Clark plays the clarinet.

Baby Its Cold Outside - Margaret Whiting & Johnny Mercer

Baby Its Cold Outside - Margaret Whiting & Johnny Mercer (03:08)

Baby its cold outside, this very famous song sung beautifully by Margaret Whiting and John Mercer. Contrary to the mass of information and downloadable audio music displayed on the internet, which is totally...

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Johnny Mercer Biography

John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer (November 18, 1909 - June 25, 1976) was an American songwriter and singer. As a songwriter, 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 a thousand songs, including compositions for movies and Broadway shows. He received nineteen Academy Award nominations. Mercer was also a co-founder of Capitol Records.

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Johnny Mercer's Best Songs

  • 1. Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive
  • 2. Personality
  • 3. Winter Wonderland (Rise Ashen's Brazilian Beach Mix)
  • 4. Jingle Bells
  • 5. Winter Wonderland
  • 6. Accentuate The Positive
  • 7. Strip Polka
  • 8. Glow Worm
  • 9. G.I. Jive
  • 10. One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)
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