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"I Wanna Be Around" is a #popularSong credited to Sadie Vimmerstedt and #JohnnyMercer. In the lyrics, the singer declares that he "wants to be around" when the woman who spurned him inevitably gets her heart broken.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq0LN8rWRno

Tony Bennett - The Good Life / I Wanna Be Around (Live on MTV Unplugged)

Tony Bennett performing The Good Life / I Wanna Be Around from MTV UnpluggedListen to Tony Bennett: https://TonyBennett.lnk.to/listenYDSubscribe to the offic...

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Jazz FM – Now Playing May 7

Johnny Mercer - That Old Black Magic
#JazzFM #Jazz #NowPlaying #JohnnyMercer

Jazz FM – Now Playing May 5

Johnny Mercer - That Old Black Magic
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50+ Music May 2

Two Of A Kind 🤼
#JohnnyMercer #BobbyDarin #BillyMayAndHisOrchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk8HiVu9bZM

Two of a Kind

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The lyrics of ‘Spring, Spring, Spring’ as sung by Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire are gloriously insane.

From ‘While there's no antelope who feels that he can't elope’ to ‘To itself, each amoeba softly croons, "Ach, du Lieber"’…those rhymes!

https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Bing-Crosby-Fred-Astaire/Spring-Spring-Spring

#SpringSpringSpring #BingCrosby #FredAstaire #JohnnyMercer #spring #printemps #antelope #cocoon #amoeba #termite #worm #songlyrics #tenant #pennant #elope #rhymes

Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire - Spring Spring Spring lyrics | Musixmatch

Lyrics for Spring Spring Spring by Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire. Well now, the barnyard is busy, in a regular tizzy And the obvious reason is because of th...

50+ Music Apr 17

"You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" is a #popular song with music by #HarryWarren and lyrics by #JohnnyMercer, written in 1938 for the #WarnerBrothers movie #HardToGet, released November 1938, in which it was sung by #DickPowell. The biggest-selling hit version was recorded by #BingCrosby, with #BobCrosby and his orchestra while other contemporaneous hit versions included recordings by #TommyDorsey (with vocal by #EdytheWright) and #RussMorgan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLYkAL_ow0E

You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby (2006 Remaster)

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50+ Music Apr 16

"In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" is a #popular song with music by #HoagyCarmichael, and lyrics by #JohnnyMercer. It was originally planned to feature it in a #ParamountPictures film written for #BettyHutton, that never took off, which was to be called The #MackSennett Girl, or Keystone Girl. The song was buried in Paramount's files until it was rediscovered and then used in the 1951 film #HereComesTheGroom and won the #AcademyAwardForBestOriginalSong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puSgWX4DbZ4

Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening [from HERE COMES THE GROOM]

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✧ St. Louis Woman ✧

St. Louis Woman is a 1946 American musical by Arna Bontemps and Countee Cullen, with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It is based on the novel God Sends Sunday by African-American writer Arna Bontemps. The musical opened at the Martin Beck Theatre in New York on March 30, 1946, and ran for 113 performances. Th...

#st. #louiswoman #newyork #counteecullen #johnnymercer #wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis_Woman

50+ Music Mar 26

"Moon River" is a song composed by #HenryMancini with lyrics by #JohnnyMercer. It was originally performed by #AudreyHepburn in the 1961 film #BreakfastAtTiffanys, winning an #AcademyAwardForBestOriginalSong. The song also won the 1962 #GrammyAwards for #RecordOfTheYear and #SongOfTheYear. In 1999, Mancini's recording was inducted into the #GrammyHallOfFame. The song has been recorded by many other artists. It became the theme song for #AndyWilliams.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_jgIezosVA

Moon River - Andy Williams

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50+ Music Feb 24

"Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" is a #popular song, published in 1944. The music was written by #HaroldArlen and the lyric by #JohnnyMercer. It was nominated for the #AcademyAwardForBestOriginalSong at the #18thAcademyAwards in 1945 after being used in the film #HereComeTheWaves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3jdbFOidds

ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE ~ Johnny Mercer & The Pied Pipers (1945)

ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE ~ Johnny Mercer & The Pied Pipers (1945) (live recording). Words by: Johnny Mercer - Music by: Harold Arlen - copyright: 1944Though ...

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