Johnny Mercer, songwriter: reference sources (web and print); selected songs; recordings, videos; miscellany

Johnny Mercer
research resources on the web (listed alphabetically by web source):

The Johnny Mercer Foundation website
Amazon (publications by and about, recordings, videos, sheet music, etc.)
DBOPM (Database Of Popular Music: song list; awards; hit songs; co-writers)
Songwriters Hall of Fame (biography and song list);
Wikipedia (article);
Internet Broadway Database (Broadway productions and song credits)
Internet Movie Database (brief biography, filmography, movie song credits);
The New York Times (articles about the songwriter); including:
- Stephen Holden, Those Amorous Lyrics, Borrowed from the Birds." The New York Times, Nov. 23, 2009 (review of Mercer Centennial concert at Carnegie Hall).
- Jay Atkinson. "Gettin' a Glow on in Mercer's Savannah." The New York Times, Jan. 29, 2010 (a tour of Mercer's Savannah).
New York Public Library (catalog entries for books, personal papers, recordings, scores, etc.);
NPR Music (archive of relevant programs often including audio segments):

"Celebrating the Johnny Mercer Centennial," NPR music, Nov. 18, 2009;

Jeff Lunden. "100 Years of Johnny Mercer, Pop Poet Laureate." NPR Music, Nov. 18, 2009;

PBS: Jeffrey Brown. "Conversation: Robert Kimball, Author of The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer." PBS News Hour Art Beat, Nov. 19, 2009.
Indiana University Sheet Music Collection: Johnny Mercer

Johnny Mercer research resources in print (listed chronologically):

Bob Bach and Ginger Mercer. Johnny Mercer:: The Life, Times and Song Lyrics of Our Huckleberry Friend. Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart, 1982.
David Ewen. American Songwriters, An H. W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1987 (includes 146 bios of composers and lyricists). -- a wide selection of used copies is available at abebooks.com (entry, pp. 279-282).
Thomas S. Hischak. Word Crazy: Broadway Lyricists from Cohan to Sondheim. New York: Praeger, 1991 (pp. 145-147).
Philip Furia. Skylark The Life and Times of Johnny Mercer, New York: St. Martins Press, 2003.
Gene Lees. Portrait of Johnny: The Life of John Herndon Mercer. New York: Pantheon, 2004.
Ken Bloom. The American Songbook, The Singers, The Songwriters and the Songs. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2005 (entry--pp. 268-271 and others).
Thomas S. Hischak. The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008 (entry--p. 488).
Robert Kimball, Barry Day, Miles Kreuger, and Eric Davis, The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer, New York: Alfred A. Knoph, 2009.
Stephen Sondheim, Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics (1981-2011) with Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes and Miscellany, New York: Alfred A Knoph, 2011 (mini-essay on Mercer, p. 308).

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