{"product_id":"the-complete-lyrics-of-johnny-mercer","title":"The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe seventh volume in Knopfs critically acclaimed Complete Lyrics series  published in Johnny Mercers centennial year  contains the texts to more than 1 200 of his lyrics  several hundred of them published here for the first time.  Johnny Mercers early songs became staples of the big band era and were regularly featured in the musicals of early Hollywood. With his collaborators  who included Richard A. Whiting  Harry Warren  Hoagy Carmichael  Jerome Kern  and Harold Arlen  he wrote the lyrics to some of the most famous standards  among them  Too Marvelous for Words  Jeepers Creepers  Skylark  Im Old-Fashioned  and That Old Black Magic.  During a career of more than four decades  Mercer was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song an astonishing eighteen times  and won four: for his lyrics to On the Atchison  Topeka  and the Santa Fe (music by Warren)  In the Cool  Cool  Cool of the Evening (music by Carmichael)  and Moon River and Days of Wine and Roses (music for both by Henry Mancini).  Youve probably fallen in love with more than a few of Mercers songshis words have never gone out of fashionand with this superb collection  its easy to see that his lyrics elevated popular song into art.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44984033378357,"sku":"ByrdShop_0307265196","price":36.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780307265197.jpg?v=1770819143","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-complete-lyrics-of-johnny-mercer","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}