Songwriter (18-Nov-1909 — 25-Jun-1976)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Bob Bach; Ginger Mercer. Our Huckleberry Friend: The Life, Times, and Lyrics of Johnny Mercer. Lyle Stuart. 1982. 252pp.

Philip Furia. Skylark: The Life and Times of Johnny Mercer. Macmillan. 2003. 328pp.

Gene Lees. Portrait of Johnny: The Life of John Herndon Mercer. Hal Leonard Corporation. 2006. 360pp.

AUTHORITIES

Below are references indicating presence of this name in another database or other reference material. Most of the sources listed are encyclopedic in nature but might be limited to a specific field, such as musicians or film directors. A lack of listings here does not indicate unimportance -- we are nowhere near finished with this portion of the project -- though if many are shown it does indicate a wide recognition of this individual.

1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Internet Broadway Database [link]

5. Wikipedia [link]

6. Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians (p.413)

7. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.474)

8. The Film Encyclopedia, 5th Edition (p.960)

9. The Encyclopedia of Film (p.372)

10. Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 8th Edition (p.655)

11. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.496)

12. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.352)

13. American Songwriters (pp.279-82)

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