Award-winning songwriter ("Stardust", "Ole Buttermilk Sky", "Georgia on My Mind"), composer, pianist, actor and singer, educated at Indiana University (LL.B). He played piano in the college bands, and later gave up a law practise for a career in songwriting. He joined ASCAP in 1931, and his chief musical collaborators included Mitchell Parish...See full bio »
2009Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me
(TV documentary)
(music: "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening", "Skylark", "Georgia on My Mind", "How Little We Know", "Lazybones" / performer: "How Little We Know", "Lazybones")
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Episode #2.20
(1952)
(writer: " Up A Lazy River" - uncredited)
1952The Las Vegas Story
(writer: "I Get Along Without You Very Well", "The Monkey Song", "My Resistance Is Low" / performer: "The Monkey Song", "My Resistance Is Low")
1950Young Man with a Horn
(performer: "Get Happy" - uncredited, "Sweet Georgia Brown" - uncredited, "Lovin' Sam The Sheik of Alabam" - uncredited, "Limehouse Blues" - uncredited, "The Japanese Sandman" - uncredited)
1949The Set-Up
(music: "The Nearness of You' 1938 - uncredited)
1948I Walk Alone
(music: "Heart and Soul" - uncredited)
1946Canyon Passage
(music: "ROGUE RIVER VALLEY", "SILVER SADDLE", "I'M GETTIN' MARRIED IN THE MORNIN'" / lyrics: "ROGUE RIVER VALLEY", "SILVER SADDLE", "I'M GETTIN' MARRIED IN THE MORNIN'" / performer: "ROGUE RIVER VALLEY", "SILVER SADDLE", "I'M GETTIN' MARRIED IN THE MORNIN'", "OLE BUTTERMILK SKY" / "OLE BUTTERMILK SKY")
1945The Stork Club
(music: "Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief" 1945 - uncredited)
1945Johnny Angel
(music: "Memphis In June" / performer: "Memphis In June")
1944To Have and Have Not
(writer: "Hong Kong Blues" 1939 - uncredited / music: "How Little We Know" 1944, "The Rhumba Jumps" 1939 - uncredited / performer: "How Little We Know" 1944, "Am I Blue?" 1929 - uncredited, "Hong Kong Blues" 1939 - uncredited)
1944Cowboy Canteen
(writer: " Up a Lazy River" - uncredited)
Pictured on one of a set of four 32¢ US commemorative postage stamps in the Legends of American Music series, issued 11 September 1996, celebrating American songwriters. Others honored in this issue are Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer, and Dorothy Fields.
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