Saturday, May 3, 2008



Johnny Mercer -lyricist, composer-

"A Johnny Mercer lyric is all the wit you wish you had and all the love you ever lost."-Frank Sinatra

song title: You Grow Sweeter As (The) Years Go By
music and lyric by Johnny Mercer
song title: When The World Was Young
music by M. Philippe-Gerard
lyric by Angele Marie Vannier
English lyric by Johnny Mercer
song title: When A Woman Loves A Man
music by Bernie Hanighen, Gordon Jenkins
song title: You Were Never Lovelier
music by Jerome Kern
song title: You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby
music by Harry Warren
song title: Trav'lin' Light
music by Jimmy Mundy, Trummy Young
song title:
Time To Smile
music by Geoffrey Clarkson
song title: This Time The Dream's On Me
music by Harold Arlen
song title: The Sounds Around The House
music by Alec Wilder 
song title: The Days Of Wine And Roses
music by Henry Mancini
song title: That Old Black Magic

music by Harold Arlen
song title: 
Tangerine
music by Victor Schertzinger
song title: Too Marvelous For Words
music by Richard Whiting
song title: The Tailgate Ramble (Click Here for YouTube audio clip: Wingy Manone and Johnny Mercer)
music by Wingy Manone
song title: The Rhumba Jumps
music by: Hoagy Carmichael
song title: The Man In My Life
music by Harold Arlen
song title: The Old Music Master
music by Hoagy Carmichael
song title: Satin Doll
music by Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn
song title: Saratoga
music by Harold Arlen
song title:
Skylark

music by Hoagy Carmichael
song title: Something Tells Me
music by Harry Warren
song title:
Something's Gotta Give

song title: Santa Claus Came In The Spring
song title:
Poor Mr. Chisholm

music by Bernie Hanighen
song title: P.S. I Love You
music by Gordon Jenkins
song title: Petticoat High
music by Harold Arlen
song title: Peter Piper
music by Richard Whiting
song title: Out Of This World
music by Harold Arlen
song title: One Step-Two Step

music by Harold Arlen
song title: One For My Baby
music by Harold Arlen
song title:
On The Swing Shift

music by Harold Arlen
song title:
Once Upon A Summertime

music by Michel Legrand
song title:
Namely You

music by Gene DePaul
song title:
Me And The Ghost Upstairs

music by Bernie Hanighen
song title:
My Shining Hour

music by Harold Arlen
song title:
Moon River

music by Henry Mancini
song title: Moon Country (Click Here for YouTube audio clip)
music by Hoagy Carmichael
song title:
Make With The Kisses

music by Jimmy Van Heusen
song title:
Mrs. Wiggs Of The Cabbage Patch

music by Paul Weston
song title: Love With The Proper Stranger

music by Elmer Bernstein
song title: Love Of My Life
music by Artie Shaw
song title: Let's Take The Long Way Home
music by Harold Arlen
song title:
Let That Be A Lesson To You
music by Richard Whiting
song title: (Love's Got Me In A) Lazy Mood
music by Eddie Miller
song title: Lazy Bones (Click Here for YouTube audio clip: The Mills Brothers)

music by Hoagy Carmichael
song title: Laura
music by David Raksin
song title: L'il Augie Is A Natural Man
music by Harold Arlen
song title:
Jeepers Creepers

music by Harry Warren
song title:
June Comes Around Every Year

music by Harold Arlen
song title:
Jamboree Jones

song title:
I Remember You

music by Victor Schertzinger
song title:
I'm Building Up To An Awful Let-Down

music by Fred Astaire
song title:
I'm Old Fashioned

music by Jerome Kern
song title:
I Wanna Be Around

music by Johnny Mercer
lyric by Johnny Mercer, Sadie Vimmerstadt
song title:
If You Were Mine

music by Matty Malneck
song title:
It Had Better Be Tonight

music by Henry Mancini
song title:
I Fought Every Step Of The Way

song title:
I Wonder What Became Of Me

music by Harold Arlen
song title:
I Thought About You

music by Jimmy Van Heusen
song title:
I Walk With Music

music by Hoagy Carmichael
song title:
If You Were Mine

music by Matty Malneck
song title:
I Never Wanna Look Into Those Eyes Again

music by Milton Raskin
song title:
Hit The Road To Dreamland

music by Harold Arlen
song title:
How Little We Know

music by Hoagy Carmichael
song title:
How Do You Say Auf Wiedersehen

music by Tony Scibetta
song title:
Here's To My Lady

music by Rube Bloom
song title:
Have You Got Any Castles, Baby?

music by Richard Whiting
song title:
Goody Goody

music by Matty Matlock
song title:
G.I. Jive

music and lyric by Johnny Mercer
song title:
Fools Rush In

music by Rube Bloom
song title: Fancy Free
music by Harold Arlen
song title: Early Autumn
music by Ralph Burns, Woody Herman
song title:
Eeny Meeny Miney Mo

music by Matt Malneck
song title:
Easy Street

music by Harold Arlen
song title:
Emily

music by Johnny Mandel
song title:
Dig It

music by Hal Borne
song title:
Dearly Beloved

music by Jerome Kern
song title:
Day In-Day Out

music by Rube Bloom
song title:
Dream

song title:
(The) Dixieland Band

music by Bernie Hanighen
song title:
Duration Blues

song title:
Come Rain Or Come Shine

music by Harold Arlen
song title: Cuckoo In The Clock
music by Walter Donaldson
song title: Conversation While Dancing
music by Paul Weston
song title: Can't Teach My Old Heart New Tricks
music by Richard Whiting
song title: Blues In The Night
music by Harold Arlen
song title:
Autumn Leaves

music by Joseph Kosma
French lyric by Jacques Prevert
song title: At The Jazz Band Ball (Click Here for YouTube video clip: Johnny Mercer) music by Larry Shields, Nick LaRocca, Eddie Edwards, Henry Ragas and Tony Sbarbaro
song title: As Long As You Live (Click Here for YouTube audio clip: Louis Armstrong)
music by Bernie Hanighen
song title: Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home
music by Harold Arlen
song title: Accent-Tchu-Ate The Positive
music by Harold Arlen
song title:
And The Angels Sing

music by Ziggy Elman
song title: A Kiss From You (Click Here for YouTube audio clip)
music by Benny Carter



Murray Mencher aka Ted Murry -composer-

song title: I Want A Little Girl
lyric by Billy Moll

song title: On The Bumpy Road To Love (Click Here for YouTube video clip: Judy Garland)
lyric by Al Hoffman & Al Lewis

song title:
Take Another Guess (Click Here for YouTube audio clip: Ella Fitzgersald & Benny Goodman)

music by Al Sherman
lyric by Murray Mencher & Charles Newman

song title: You Can't Pull Wool Over My Eyes
music by Milton Ager, Murray Mencher
lyric by Charles Newman