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Johnny Mercer Sings!
Johnny Mercer

Released 1993

Mail-order firm the Good Music Record Company licensed this compilation of Johnny Mercer material from Capitol Records, the company he co-founded, and it presents a good survey of his popular recordings from the 1940s and early 1950s. Among the 22 tracks are all of Mercer's number one hits -- "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive," "Candy," "On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe," and "Personality" -- as well as five of his other seven Top Ten singles (the missing: "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah," "Huggin' and Chalkin'"), several of his other chart songs, such as "The Glow Worm" (a Mercer copyright that was a bigger hit for the Mills Brothers), and some intriguing performances, including his takes on "One For My Baby (And One More for the Road)" and "Blues in the Night," songs for which he wrote the lyrics to music by Harold Arlen. Employing the better part of the Capitol Records roster, the singer is often accompanied on vocals by the Pied Pipers, twice by Jo Stafford, and once each by Margaret Whiting and Nat "King" Cole, while the Benny Goodman Orchestra plays on two tracks. Mercer is better remembered as a songwriter than a recording artist, but this set confirms his appeal as a performer. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

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Compilations

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Dream Team (2005)

Moon River (2005)

Blues in the Night (2004)

Dream: The Lyrics and Music of Johnny Mercer (2003)

Sings Personality (2002)

Personality (2001)

V-Disc Recordings: For Our Armed Forces Overseas (1999)

Huckleberry Mercer (1998)

The Best of Johnny Mercer (1998)

Some of the Best (1997)

More of the Best (1997)

Poetry of Johnny Mercer (1996)

The Old Music Master (1996)

My Huckleberry Friend (1996)

Georgia on My Mind: Uncollected Johnny Mercer (1944) (1995)

Johnny Mercer Sings! (1993)

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Capitol Collectors Series (1942 - 1949)

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