The Bard of Savannah celebrated with jazz concert featuring four unpublished tunes. Johnny Mercer, perhaps the best lyricist Georgia ever produced, never stopped scribbling ideas, and he wrote on ...

Award-winning recording artist Lee Lessack delivers in a powerhouse evening as he sings his way through the heartwarming music of Georgia's favorite son, Johnny Mercer. Lessack brings Mercer to life ...

Directed by Josh Sazon and with Music Direction by Wes Habley, MOON RIVER: The Songs of Johnny Mercer will feature a 16-piece big band and vocalists for an evening of music straight from the golden ...

Lyricist and composer Johnny Mercer — born Nov. 18, 1909, in Savannah, Ga. — wrote or co-wrote more than 1,000 songs, including American Songbook standards like "Skylark," "That Old Black Magic" and ...

As we reported on Tuesday (Feb. 10), John Fogerty is this year’s recipient of the Johnny Mercer Award, the top honor given by the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Fogerty joins a long list of Mercer Award ...

CD1: They Didn't Believe Me (A); The Old Music Master (B); G.I. Jive (C); Dixieland Band (D); Jamboree Jones (E); San Fernando Valley (F); Someone's In The Kitchen With Dinah (F); The Tailgate Ramble ...

What do "Hooray for Hollywood," "Dream," and "Moon River" have in common? They all were written by Johnny Mercer, a man with a genius for writing fabulous song lyrics. He also composed music and was a ...

JOHNNY MERCER: THE DREAM'S ON ME opens with Eastwood and award-winning film composer John Williams sitting at a piano reminiscing about what makes Mercer's songs so memorable. That touchstone begins a ...