Johnny Mercer may have been many things to many people, but all would agree that he was one of America's outstanding lyricists and composers. Born in Savannah, Ga., on Nov. 18, 1909, his association ...

On Wednesday, prolific songwriter and singer Johnny Mercer would have turned 100. In his lifetime, he worked with more than 200 collaborators and churned out lyrics for more than 1,500 songs for both ...

Lyrics of Johnny Mercer-- Coinciding with a new DVD devoted to the life and works of lyricist/composer/singer Johnny Mercer comes a book from Knopf titled "The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer," ...

Johnny Mercer was a complex man but, oh, how he could write lyrics. Mercer penned over 1,500 of them with 230 composers. You can learn about the music and the man through two shows at the Skokie ...

I joined the Morning News in March 1956 the same day Johnny Mercer copyrighted "Old reporters never die, They gradually decline." That came along about halfway in this coffee table book of all coffee ...

When people write about Johnny Mercer, they usually talk about his fabulous career, the sheer quantity of his output, the speed and ease with which he wrote, his southern charm, the hip sophistication ...

In May 1971, songwriter Johnny Mercer appeared at New York's 92nd Street Y to sing and talk about his remarkable career. He told the audience what he tried to listen for when a composer first played ...

'Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me," a new documentary produced by Clint Eastwood (which airs Wednesday, Nov. 4, on Turner Classic Movies, two weeks before the songwriter's centennial on the 18th), ...