The Bard of Savannah celebrated with jazz concert featuring four unpublished tunes.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 ...

Award-winning recording artist Lee Lessack delivers in a powerhouse evening as he sings his way through the heartwarming music of Georgia's favorite son, Johnny Mercer. Lessack brings Mercer to life ...

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 ...

Read this and you'll understand why the Songwriters Hall of Fame named their top award after this beloved lyricist. By Paul Grein As we reported on Tuesday (Feb. 10), John Fogerty is this year’s ...

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 ...

Choosing "I'm Shadowing You" as the opener on Daryl Sherman's fine Centennial Tribute to composer and lyricist Johnny Mercer inevitably recalls Blossom Dearie. Heretofore that tune has pretty much ...

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 ...

As we reported on Tuesday (Feb. 10), John Fogerty is this year’s recipient of the Johnny Mercer Award, the top honor given by the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Fogerty joins a long list of Mercer Award ...