Johnny Mercer, Johnny Mercer Lyrics
Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 9:56 am under U.S. News Johnny Mercer, Johnny Mercer Lyrics
Johnny Mercer, Johnny Mercer Lyrics, TCM accentuated the positive in this new salute to a great songwriter Johnny Mercer, Mercer, and at the same time, life was a dark side, so this evening on the screen has a rich musical feast worthy of savoring many times over.
“Dream’s On Me” shows why Mercer is the same sentence with America’s greatest golden age of popular songwriters, the likes of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Gershwins and Rodgers and Hammerstein.
His songs are the “Lark,” That Old Black Magic, “” Blues Night “and hundreds. He co-authors, and Hoagy Carmichael and Henry Mancini, for which he wrote the lyrics to” Moon River “.
Mercer was a proud son of the South Georgia, which became a big family and it lost money on the eve of the Depression.
He still followed the muse, that fascinated him several jazz, pop, blues, folk, classical and sacred music.
Many of his lyrics was easy, fun humor, including “Baby It’s Cold Outside.” Some were love songs. Others suggested a deep pain and longing, like “One for My Baby.”
Rightly been described here in particular the final alcohol content of Torch Song, “One for My Baby” was not fully abstract Mercer. He had a drinking problem, although not mentioned in belabored here, and he carried a lifelong torch to a woman he can never have.
That a woman Judy Garland, and “Dream” refers to the doomed love inspired songs such as “rain or shine.”
Elevating special than a chronological recitation are dozens of video clips that show the great artists singing material from Mercer, Nat King Cole’s Dream “through Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Audra McDonald, Maude Maggert, Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, and Mercer himself.
Mercer had appeared to be unremarkable voice, there is not much different, but he understood the songs and he has developed the relaxed style – not unlike Carmichael’s – who delivered them well.
In particular, also, Mercer made a few things on the side as the founder of Capitol Records, which has for years been known as the ultimate singer’s label.
Mercer died in 1976, and “This Dream’s On Me” honor shots 100 years since his birth later this month. Like all the great songs, a very real sense, he never left.
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