Johnny Mercer: And the Angels Sing

General Sherman offered to President Lincoln the city of Savannah as a Christmas present in December 1864. Johnny Mercer proffered to the world his music and lyrics. If we are inclined to take in the wealth from these southern hospitalities, our lives would be that much richer.

As an "old" music lover, traveling through Savannah last week, its native son Johnny Mercer came to mind. Mercer died in 1976 and was buried in the family plot in Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah. The inscription on his headstone reads, "And the Angels Sing." That's Mercer plain and true.

Tomorrow, I will send to my friends in Virgina some songs with Johnny Mercer lyrics. These 32 songs are as follows:

Andy Williams (1986 rel) - Emily
Anne Shelton (1957) - I Remember You
Annie Ross (1958) - This Time the Dream's on Me
Audrey Hepburn (1961) - Moon River
Barbara Lea (1995) - I'm Old Fashioned
Crosby & Wyman (1951) - In the Cool Cool Cool of the Evening
Diana Krall (1999) - Midnight Sun
Dick Haymes (1944) - Laura
Dinah Shore (2001 rel) - Blues in the Night
Doris Day (1958) - That Old Black Magic
Harry Connick Jr (1999) - Charade
Helen Forrest (1942) - Skylark
Henry Mancini (1962) - Days of Wines and Roses
Henry Mancini (1965) - The Sweetheart Tree
Johnny Mercer (1944) - G.I. Jive
Johnny Mercer (1945) - Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive
Johnny Mercer (1945) - On The Atchison, Topeka and the Sante Fe
Johnny Mercer (1952) - Glow Worm
Lynn Roberts (2005) - Goody Goody
Mario Lanza (1953) - Song of India
Marlene Dietrich (1997 rel) - Come Rain or Come Shine
Martha Tilton (1944) - And the Angels Sing
Michael Bublé (2003) - Summer Wind
Nancy Knorr (1992) - Tangerine
Nancy Lamott (1995) - Autumn Leaves - When October Goes
Nancy Lamott (1995) - Hit the Road to Dreamland
Nancy Lamott (1995) - P.S. I Love You
Nancy Lamott (1995) - Talk to Me Baby
Norma Winstone (1998) - When the World Was Young
Pat Boone (1957) - Bernadine
Pied Pipers, The (1945) - Dream
Ray Eberle (1940) - Fools Rush In