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Evan Stern & Steve Ross: Moon Country: The Songs of Johnny Mercer’s South
A warm and entertaining new show celebrating the songs of Johnny Mercer.
Johnny Mercer
May 2009 JOHNNY MERCER Prolific and terrific, warm or witty, Johnny Mercer was, to employ one of his song titles, just “Too Marvelous for Words.” That 1937 song had music by Richard Whiting, father of Mercer protegee and friend and another of our Hall of Fame-rs, singer Margaret Whiting, now President of the music education-focused […]
