Four Academy Awards, plus sixteen nominations. More than 1,500 published songs. Johnny Mercer founded a record company and the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame. Sometimes singer, sometimes composer, always wordsmith. He had a way with making the simple things sound fantastical and making unlikely phrases roll of the tongue. His smooth Southern drawl and his ability…
Mercer wrote more than 1,500 songs. He won four Oscars (and was nominated for 14 more), founded Capitol Records (and gave Nat “King” Cole his first contract) and founded the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame.
Somehow it is already time for Armchair BEA again! Cheers to the lovely folks who organize this virtual get-together each year. It’s always great fun. Tell us a bit about yourself: How long have you been blogging? Where are you from? I began blogging about books nearly seven years ago. I’d been writing film…
When The World Was Young BY JOHNNY MERCER It isn’t by chance I happen to be a boulevardier, the toast of Paris, For over the noise, the talk and the smoke, I’m good for a laugh, a drink or a joke, I walk in a room, a party of all, come sit over here, somebody…
I love everything about old bookstores. And this one in Savannah has its own eccentricities. It is set back on the second story of Factor’s Walk, a row of old cotton warehouse and merchant offices on the river in Savannah. Just getting to it (down some hairpin stairs and across a plank bridge) is an…