The Bard of Savannah celebrated with jazz concert featuring four unpublished tunes. Johnny Mercer, perhaps the best lyricist Georgia ever produced, never stopped scribbling ideas, and he wrote on ...

Directed by Josh Sazon and with Music Direction by Wes Habley, MOON RIVER: The Songs of Johnny Mercer will feature a 16-piece big band and vocalists for an evening of music straight from the golden ...

At Dizzy’s Club, the host and curator, Deborah Grace Winer, observed that Johnny Mercer had a “truly American voice” as a songwriter, being at once “a folk poet” and also “a real urbane, snazzy ...

Read this and you'll understand why the Songwriters Hall of Fame named their top award after this beloved lyricist.

John Fogerty is set to receive the Johnny Mercer Award, the Songwriters Hall of Fame’s top honor, at the annual SHOF ...

What do "Hooray for Hollywood," "Dream," and "Moon River" have in common? They all were written by Johnny Mercer, a man with a genius for writing fabulous song lyrics. He also composed music and was a ...

CD1: They Didn't Believe Me (A); The Old Music Master (B); G.I. Jive (C); Dixieland Band (D); Jamboree Jones (E); San Fernando Valley (F); Someone's In The Kitchen With Dinah (F); The Tailgate Ramble ...