Recommended Materials
AN EVENING WITH JOHNNY MERCER
Recorded by Johnny Mercer, Margaret Whiting, Robert Sands and Richard Leonard at the 92nd Street Y, March 14, 1971, New York.
DRG # 5176, 1992
TOO MARVELOUS FOR WORDS: THE SONGS OF JOHNNY MERCER
Performed by Lee Lessack, John Boswell, Adrian Rosen
Includes "Dream", "My Shining Hour", "I Wanna Be Around" "I Remember You"
LML Music # 124
CAPITOL SINGS THE BEST MOVIE SONGS
Remastered recordings of Academy Award Winners for Best Song including "Moon River", "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" and "Days of Wine and Roses"
Capitol/EMI Records # 98475, 1992
EILEEN FARRELL SINGS JOHNNY MERCER
Includes "Skylark", "Moon River", "I Remember You", "Too Marvelous For Words", "I'm Old Fashioned"
Reference Recordings # 44, 1991
ELLA FITZGERALD SINGS THE JOHNNY MERCER SONGBOOK
Recorded at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, October 1964, with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra.
Verve # 539 057, 1964
MY HUCKLEBERRY FRIEND - JOHNNY MERCER & HENRY MANCINI
Includes Recordings by Johnny Mercer
Songs included: "You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby", "Moon River", "I Wanna Be In Love", "The Days of Wine And Roses"
DRG # 5244, 1974
TWO OF A KIND: BOBBY DARIN & JOHNNY MERCER
Recordings by Bobby Darin and Johnny Mercer
Includes "If I Had My Druthers", "Lonesome Pussycat"
Atlantic # 90484, 1990
SARATOGA - Original New York Cast Recording
Recorded December 13, 1959, New York
RCA Victor # 63-690
ST. LOUIS WOMAN - Original 1998 New York Cast Recording
Mercury # 538 148, 1998
JOHNNY MERCER: SOME OF THE BEST
Includes "Sweet Georgia Brown", "Somebody Loves Me"
Laserlight # 12627, 1997
JOHNNY MERCER: MORE OF THE BEST
Includes "Accentuate the Positive", "Goody, Goody, Goody", "Conversation While Dancing"
Laserlight # 12628, 1997
JOHNNY MERCER: THE CAPITOL COLLECTORS SERIES
Remastered recordings include "Blues In The Night", "Ac-Cent-Chu-Ate The Positive", "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah", ""Moon-Faced, Starry Eyed"
Capitol/EMI Records # 92125, 1989
JOHNNY MERCER: SWEET GEORGIA BROWN
Recorded by Johnny Mercer with Paul Weston's Orchestra
Includes "Sugar", "Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good To You", "Sweet Georgia Brown"
Hindsight # 152, 1995
THE BEST OF JOHNNY MERCER
Includes "G.I. Jive", "Sugar Blues", "On the Atchinson, Topeka & Santa Fe", "One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)"
EMI/Capitol Special Markets # 19428, 1996
THE COMPLETE JOHNNY MERCER SONGBOOKS
Originally issued as three separate CD's, combined here in a 3-CD Set with recordings by Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Woody Herman, Cleo Laine, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker
Verve # 557 539, 1998
THE DREAMS OF JOHNNY MERCER
Recorded by Monica Mancini
Includes "With My Lover Beside Me", "Skylark", "Love Is Where You Find It", "Accentuate the Positive"
Concord Jazz # 4937, 2000
TOO MARVELOUS FOR WORDS: JOHNNY MERCER SONGBOOK
Recordings by Charlie Parker, Quincy Jones, Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster, Stan Getz, Erroll Garner
Verve # 557 140, 1998