Johnny Mercer

Johnny Mercer
Johnny Mercer
Johnny Mercer (c. 1947)
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Desenho e assinatura de Johnny Mercer

John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer (Savannah, 18 de novembro de 1909 - 25 de junho de 1976) foi um letrista, compositor e cantor americano. Ele também foi um executivo de uma gravadora que co-fundou a Capitol Records com o empresário da indústria musical Buddy DeSylva e Glenn E. Wallichs.

Ele é mais conhecido como um letrista de Tin Pan Alley, mas também compôs música. Ele também foi um cantor popular que gravou suas próprias canções, bem como canções escritas por outros de meados dos anos 1930 até meados dos anos 1950. As canções de Mercer estavam entre os sucessos mais populares da época, incluindo "Moon River", "Days of Wine and Roses", "Autumn Leaves" e "Hooray for Hollywood". Ele escreveu as letras de mais de 1 500 canções, incluindo composições para filmes e shows da Broadway. Ele recebeu dezenove indicações ao Oscar e ganhou quatro Oscars de Melhor Canção Original.[1]

Musicas

Datas Título Musica de Notas
1933 "Lazy Bones" Hoagy Carmichael
1934 "P.S. I Love You" Gordon Jenkins
1936 "Goody Goody" Matty Malneck
1936 "I'm an Old Cowhand from the Rio Grande" Johnny Mercer
1937 "Hooray for Hollywood" Richard A. Whiting
1937 "Too Marvelous for Words" Richard A. Whiting
1938 "Jeepers, Creepers!" Harry Warren
1938 "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" Harry Warren
1938 "When a Woman Loves a Man" Bernie Hanighen, Gordon Jenkins
1939 "And the Angels Sing" Ziggy Elman
1939 "Cuckoo in the Clock" Walter Donaldson
1939 "Day In, Day Out" Rube Bloom
1939 "I Thought About You" Jimmy Van Heusen
1939 "Wings Over the Navy" Harry Warren
1940 "Fools Rush In" Rube Bloom
1941 "Blues in the Night" Harold Arlen
1941 "I Remember You" Victor Schertzinger
1941 "Tangerine" Victor Schertzinger
1941 "This Time the Dream's on Me" Harold Arlen
1942 "Moon Dreams" Chummy MacGregor (co-writer)
1942 "Dearly Beloved" Jerome Kern
1942 "Hit the Road to Dreamland" Harold Arlen
1942 "I'm Old Fashioned" Jerome Kern
1942 "Skylark" Hoagy Carmichael
1942 "That Old Black Magic" Harold Arlen
1942 "Trav'lin' Light" Jimmy Mundy, Trummy Young
1943 "Dream" Johnny Mercer
1943 "My Shining Hour" Harold Arlen
1943 "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" Harold Arlen Temas de 1957–1958 NBC serie de detetive Meet McGraw
1944 "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" Harold Arlen
1944 "G.I. Jive" Johnny Mercer
1945 "Laura" David Raksin
1945 "Out of This World" Harold Arlen
1946 "Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home" Harold Arlen
1946 "I Had Myself a True Love" Harold Arlen
1946 "Come Rain or Come Shine" Harold Arlen
1946 "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" Harry Warren Para o filme The Harvey Girls
1947 "Autumn Leaves" Joseph Kosma, orig. French lyrics by Jacques Prévert
1951 "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" Hoagy Carmichael Para o filme Here Comes the Groom
1952 "I Wanna Be a Dancing Man" Harry Warren
1952 "The Glow-Worm" Paul Lincke
1953 "Satin Doll" Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn
1954 "Midnight Sun" Lionel Hampton, Sonny Burke
1954 "Something's Gotta Give" Johnny Mercer
1956 "I'm Past My Prime" Gene de Paul
1956 "Jubilation T. Cornpone" Gene de Paul
1956 "Bernardine" Johnny Mercer Para o filme Bernardine
1956 "Technique" Johnny Mercer Para o filme Bernardine
1959 "I Wanna Be Around" Johnny Mercer, Sadie Vimmerstedt
1961 "Moon River" Henry Mancini Para o filme Breakfast at Tiffany's
1962 "Days of Wine and Roses" Henry Mancini Para o filme Days of Wine and Roses
1962 "Drinking Again" Doris Tauber
1963 "Charade" Henry Mancini
1963 "Meglio stasera" (It Had Better Be Tonight) Henry Mancini Para o filme The Pink Panther
1964 "Emily" Johnny Mandel
1964 "Lorna" Mort Lindsey
1964 "Talk to Me, Baby" Bobby Dolan Para o filme Broadway Foxy
1965 "Summer Wind" Henry Mayer
1970 "Whistling Away the Dark" Henry Mancini Para o filme Darling Lili
1973 "The Phony King of England" Johnny Mercer Para Disney filme Robin Hood
1984 "When October Goes" Barry Manilow Para 2:00 AM Paradise Cafe
1988 "If It Can't Be You" Barry Manilow
1988 "At Last" Barry Manilow
1988 "Heart of Mine, Cry On" Barry Manilow
1988 "When The Meadow Was Bloomin' " Barry Manilow Para o filme With My Lover Beside Me (Nancy Wilson album)
1988 "Just Remember" Barry Manilow Para o filme The Complete Collection and Then Some...
1988 "Can't Teach My Old Heart New Tricks" Barry Manilow Para The Complete Collection and Then Some...

Discografia

  • Johnny Mercer Sings (Capitol, 1950)
  • Two of a Kind with Bobby Darin (ATCO, 1961)
  • Johnny Mercer with Paul Weston's Orchestra 1944 (Hindsight, 1980)
  • Sweet Georgia Brown with Paul Weston (Hindsight, 1995)
  • Johnny Mercer Sings Personality (ASV-Living Era, 2002)
  • Johnny Mercer: Mosaic Select #28 (Mosaic, 2007)
  • Mercy Sings Mercer (Capitol, 2009)

Referências

  1. «The New Georgia Encyclopedia» 
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  • "The Continental" de Con Conrad & Herb Magidson (1935)
  • "Lullaby of Broadway" de Harry Warren & Al Dubin (1936)
  • "The Way You Look Tonight" de Jerome Kern & Dorothy Fields (1937)
  • "Sweet Leilani" de Harry Owens (1938)
  • "Thanks for the Memoryl" de Ralph Rainger & Leo Robin (1939)
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2010—2019
2020—presente
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Músicas premiadas de 1959 a 2000

1959: "Volare" – Domenico Modugno
1960: "The Battle of New Orleans" – Jimmy Driftwood
1961: "Theme from Exodus" – Ernest Gold
1962: "Moon River" – Johnny Mercer & Henry Mancini
1963: "What Kind of Fool Am I?" – Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley
1964: "Days of Wine and Roses" – Johnny Mercer & Henry Mancini
1965: "Hello, Dolly!" – Jerry Herman
1966: "The Shadow of Your Smile" – Paul Francis Webster & Johnny Mandel
1967: "Michelle" – John Lennon & Paul McCartney
1968: "Up, Up and Away" – Jimmy Webb
1969: "Little Green Apples" – Bobby Russell
1970: "Games People Play" – Joe South
1971: "Bridge over Troubled Water" – Paul Simon
1972: "You've Got a Friend" – Carole King
1973: "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" – Ewan MacColl
1974: "Killing Me Softly with His Song" – Norman Gimbel & Charles Fox
1975: "The Way We Were" – Alan e Marilyn Bergman & Marvin Hamlisch
1976: "Send in the Clowns" – Stephen Sondheim
1977: "I Write the Songs" – Bruce Johnston
1978: "Evergreen" – Barbra Streisand & Paul Williams / "You Light Up My Life" – Joe Brooks
1979: "Just the Way You Are" – Billy Joel
1980: "What a Fool Believes" – Kenny Loggins & Michael McDonald
1981: "Sailing" – Christopher Cross
1982: "Bette Davis Eyes" – Donna Weiss & Jackie DeShannon
1983: "Always on My Mind" – Johnny Christopher, Mark James & Wayne Carson
1984: "Every Breath You Take" – Sting
1985: "What's Love Got to Do with It" – Graham Lyle & Terry Britten
1986: "We Are the World" – Michael Jackson & Lionel Richie
1987: "That's What Friends Are For" – Burt Bacharach & Carole Bayer Sager
1988: "Somewhere Out There" – James Horner, Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil
1989: "Don't Worry, Be Happy" – Bobby McFerrin
1990: "Wind Beneath My Wings" – Larry Henley & Jeff Silbar
1991: "From a Distance" – Julie Gold
1992: "Unforgettable" – Irving Gordon
1993: "Tears in Heaven" – Eric Clapton & Will Jennings
1994: "A Whole New World" – Alan Menken & Tim Rice
1995: "Streets of Philadelphia" – Bruce Springsteen
1996: "Kiss from a Rose" – Seal
1997: "Change the World" – Gordon Kennedy, Wayne Kirkpatrick & Tommy Sims
1998: "Sunny Came Home" – Shawn Colvin & John Leventhal
1999: "My Heart Will Go On" – James Horner & Will Jennings
2000: "Smooth" – Itaal Shur & Rob Thomas

Músicas premiadas de 2001 até o presente

2001: "Beautiful Day" – Adam Clayton, David Evans, Laurence Mullen & Paul Hewson
2002: "Fallin'" – Alicia Keys
2003: "Don't Know Why" – Jesse Harris
2004: "Dance with My Father" – Richard Marx & Luther Vandross
2005: "Daughters" – John Mayer
2006: "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own" – Adam Clayton, David Evans, Laurence Mullen & Paul Hewson
2007: "Not Ready to Make Nice" – Emily Burns Erwin, Martha Maguire, Natalie Maines Pasdar & Dan Wilson
2008: "Rehab" – Amy Winehouse
2009: "Viva la Vida" – Guy Berryman, Jonathan Buckland, William Champion & Christopher Martin
2010: "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" – Thaddis Harrell, Beyoncé Knowles, Terius Nash & Christopher Stewart
2011: "Need You Now" – David Haywood, Josh Kear, Charles Kelley & Hillary Scott
2012: "Rolling in the Deep" – Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth
2013: "We Are Young" – Jack Antonoff, Jeff Bhasker, Andrew Dost & Nate Ruess
2014: "Royals" – Joel Little & Ella Yelich-O'Connor
2015: "Stay with Me" (Darkchild version) – James Napier, William Phillips & Sam Smith
2016: "Thinking Out Loud" – Ed Sheeran & Amy Wadge
2017: "Hello" – Adele Adkins & Greg Kurstin
2018: "That's What I Like" – Christopher Brody Brown, James Fauntleroy, Philip Lawrence, Bruno Mars, Ray Charles McCullough II, Jeremy Reeves, Ray Romulus & Jonathan Yip
2019: "This Is America" – Donald Glover & Ludwig Göransson
2020: "Bad Guy" – Billie Eilish & Finneas O'Connell
2021: "I Can't Breathe" – Dernst Emile II, H.E.R. & Tiara Thomas
2022: "Leave the Door Open" – Brandon Anderson, Christopher Brody Brown, Dernst Emile II & Bruno Mars
2023: "Just Like That" – Bonnie Raitt

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