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 ...

The Bard of Savannah celebrated with jazz concert featuring four unpublished tunes.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

3 Video: Susan Egan, Rachel Potter, & More Sing 'I Wont Say I’m In Love' 4 Rachel Potter, Susan Egan, Caroline Bowman And More To Perform In OFF BROADWAY: AN EVENING OF MAGIC At Hutton Hotel The ...

JOHNNY MERCER: THE DREAM'S ON ME opens with Eastwood and award-winning film composer John Williams sitting at a piano reminiscing about what makes Mercer's songs so memorable. That touchstone begins a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

John “Johnny” Mercer (Nov. 18, 1909 - June 25, 1976) was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer. Mercer was a very popular songwriter and singer reaching his popularity from the mid-1930s through ...

The Songwriters Hall of Fame will recognize Stephen Schwartz — the arranger and composer behind the music from “Wicked,” “Godspell” and “Pippin” — as the recipient of the 2025 Johnny Mercer Award at ...

The Songwriters Hall of Fame announced today that Diane Warren will be the 2024 recipient of the Johnny Mercer Award at the Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction and Awards Gala in June. The gala is set ...