Research Catalog

Title

Our huckleberry friend : the life, times, and lyrics of Johnny Mercer / collected and edited by Bob Bach and Ginger Mercer ; designed by Christopher Simon.

Author

Mercer, Johnny, 1909-1976.

Publication

Secaucus, N.J. : Lyle Stuart, 1982.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bach, Bob.
• Mercer, Ginger.

Description

252 p. : ill., ports.; 29 cm.

Subject

• Mercer, Johnny, 1909-1976
• Songs > Texts
• Lyricists > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Texts

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Out of breath -- Would'ja for a big red apple? -- Spring is in my heart again -- Lazybones -- The old music master -- When a woman loves a man -- Fare- thee -- well to harlem -- Here come the British -- Pardon my southern accent -- The Dixieland band -- On the Nodaway road -- I'm building up to an awful let- down -- Jamboree Jones -- Goody goody -- I'm an old cowhand -- Too marvelous for words -- Bob White -- hooray for HJollywood -- YOu must have been a beautiful baby -- Jeepers Creepers -- The girl friend of the Whirling dervish -- Weekend of a private secretary -- And the angels sing -- I thought about you -- You grow sweeter as the years go by -- Day in -- Day out -- The Rumba Jumps! -- Hooray for spinach -- Christmas card -- On behalf of the visiting firemen -- Mister meadowlark -- fools rush in -- Blues in the night -- The waiter adn the Porter and the upstairs maid -- The air- minded executive -- Skylark -- Christmas card -- Strip Polka -- Dearly beloved --^
• You were never lovelier -- I'm old fashioned -- That old black magic -- On the Swing Shift -- Hit the road to Dreamland-- Tangerine -- Arthur murray taught me dancing in a hurry -- Mandy is two -- One for my baby -- My shining hour -- Trav'lin' light -- Accentuate the positive -- How little we know -- G.I. Jive -- Dream -- On the Atchinson, Topeka and the Santa Fe -- laura -- Out of this world -- come rain or come shine -- I wonder what became of me -- Any place i hang my hat is home -- It's a woman's prerogative -- Harlem butterfly -- Lazy mood -- Early autumn -- Christmas Card-- The big movie show in the sky -- Autumn leaves -- Here's to my lady -- In the cool, cool, cool of the evening -- When the world was young -- Top banana -- Glow- worm -- Song of India -- Spring, spring, spring -- Something's gotta give -- Midnight sun -- Love in the afternoon -- If i had my druthers -- The country's in the very best of hands -- Satin Doll -- A game of poker -- Christmas Card -- Moon River --^
• The Bilbao song -- Days of wine and Roses -- I wanna be around -- Once upon a summertime -- Charade -- Emily -- Bon vivant -- Summer wind -- Trees (with sympathy for Joyce Kilmer) -- Interview with Johnny Mercer -- Happy ever after -- Untitled poem -- Frazier -- I'm Shadowing you -- Good companions -- My new celebrity is you -- The last christmas card.

ISBN

• 0818403314
• 9780818403316

LCCN

^^^82010503^

OCLC

• 8627220
• SCSB-10651025

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library