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The Complete Johnny Mercer Songbook | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Polygram Records
Category: Music
List Price: $35.98
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 45525
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5.1 x 1.3
UPC: 731455753929
EAN: 0731455753929
ASIN: B00000DLUK
Release Date: November 3, 1998
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Blues in the Night - Arlen, Harold | | • | I Thought About You | | • | Come Rain or Come Shine | | • | Hit the Road to Dreamland | | • | Dearly Beloved | | • | Goody Goody | | • | Skylark | | • | Laura | | • | Day In - Day Out | | • | Early Autumn - Burns, Ralph | | • | I Remember You | | • | Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home | | • | Too Marvelous for Words | | • | Autumn Leaves | | • | One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) - Arlen, Harold | | • | Jeepers Creepers |
Disc 2
| • | Something's Gotta Give | | • | That Old Black Magic | | • | P.S. I Love You | | • | Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive | | • | I'm Old Fashioned | | • | Midnight Sun | | • | Dream | | • | On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe | | • | Trav'lin' Light | | • | Moon River | | • | Once upon a Summertime - Barclay, Eddie | | • | Too Marvelous for Words | | • | When the World Was Young | | • | A Kiss from You | | • | Hit the Road to Dreamland | | • | Out of This World |
Disc 3
| • | I Remember You | | • | Out of This World - Arlen, Harold | | • | Too Marvelous for Words | | • | Come Rain or Come Shine | | • | Mandy Is Two | | • | Jeepers Creepers | | • | Satin Doll - Ellington, Duke | | • | That Old Black Magic | | • | Tangerine | | • | Charade | | • | Laura | | • | I'm Old Fashioned | | • | Skylark | | • | Day In - Day Out | | • | When the World Was Young | | • | Days of Wine and Roses |
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Mercer??? July 12, 2008
george daicoff (st petersburg, fl USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
All three discs are great, but the third (instrumental and jazzy)is outstanding. Old enough to be exposed to the popular Mercer tunes and understandingly biased regarding the commercialization of his stuff, I was thrilled to hear these renditions by the great artists selected for this disc. Worth the price for just the last disc-so consider the other two as bonuses.
Great! September 26, 2007
Doc Holliday
What's not to like? Incredible songs that became vocal standards by great jazz and pop vocalists and great jazz musicians! A wonderful gift for friends who prefer the classic jazz sound over fusion.
Listen and dream November 10, 2006
Hermann Hrdlicka (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
An excellent album. The best of Mercer performed by the best musicians and singers. The instrumental album is magnific, with names like Charlie Parker, Gerry Mulligan, Quincy Jones, Oscar Peterson, Stan Getz performing songs that sensibilize our reflections. An invitation for a dream.
If you have the music, he has the words June 6, 2006
Shalom Freedman (Jerusalem,Israel)
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
Among Johnny Mercer's greatest songs are: "P.S. I Love You" (1934, Gordon Jenkins), "Goody Goody" (1936, Matt Melneck), "I'm An Old Cowhand" (1936, words and music), "Bob White (Whatcha Gonna Swing Tonight?)" (1937, Bernie Hanighen), "Too Marvelous For Words" (1937, Richard Whiting), "Jeepers Creepers" (1938, Harry Warren), "Hooray For Hollywood" (1938, Richard Whiting), "Day In--Day Out" (1939, Rube Bloom), "I Thought About You" (1939, Jimmy Van Heusen), "Fools Rush In" (1940, Rube Bloom), "Blues In The Night" (1941, Harold Arlen), "Skylark" (1941, Hoagy Carmichael), "I Remember You" (1942, Victor Schertzinger), "I'm Old Fashioned" (1942, Jerome Kern), "That Old Black Magic"(1942, Harold Arlen), "Hit The Road To Dreamland" (1942, Harold Arlen), "My Shining Hour" (1943, Harold Arlen), "One For My Baby" (1943, Harold Arlen), "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive" (1944, Harold Arlen), "Let's Take The Long Way Home"(1944, Harold Arlen), "G.I. Jive" (1944, words and music), "Laura" (1945, David Raskin), "Out Of This World" (1945, Harold Arlen), "Early Autumn" (1949, Woody Herman and Ralph Burns), "Autumn Leaves" (1950, English version of a French song, music by Joseph Kozma), "Here's To My Lady" (1951, Rube Bloom), "Something's Gotta Give" (1955, words and music), "Satin Doll" (1958, Duke Ellington), "Charade" (1963, Henry Mancini), "Summer Wind" (1965, Henry Mayer), and "How Do You Say Aug Wiedersehn?" (1967, Tony Scibetta).
This collection does not include them all but contains enough to show why he is considered one of the greatest lyricists popular American song ever produced.
One oddity with Mercer is that many of his greatest hits came from melodies, music which had been pre- produced and which he was asked to write the words for. So for instance the beautiful haunting 'Autumn Leaves' was given lyrics after it had come to America from France.
Mercer is also the only lyric writer to have been honored by an 'Ella Fitzergald Songbook' collection.
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