THE JOHNNY MERCER EDUCATIONAL ARCHIVES

JOHNNY MERCER Songs ......compiled by Martin Hall

This data is organized as follows:

---- TITLE
---- WORDS/LYRICS.... are all by Johnny Mercer
---- MUSIC -name of composer
---- FILM/SHOW information ...and additional details...

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• (I Ain't Hep To That Step But I'll) Dig It
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Hal Borne
  • Film: Second Chorus (1940)

  
  

• (I Wish It Could Be) Otherwise
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Gene De Paul
  • Film: Li'l Abner (1959)

  
  

• Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive
  • Year: 1944
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harold Arlen
  • Show: Dream (1997)
  • Film: Here Come The Waves (1944)
  • Notes: Academy Award nomination 1945.

  
  

• Affable, Balding Me
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Robert Emmett Dolan
  • Show: Texas, Li'l Darlin' (1949)

  
  

• After Twelve O'Clock
  • Year: 1932
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Hoagy Carmichael
  • Notes: Mercer pseudonym Joe Moore.

  
  

• The Afterbeat
  • Words: Johnny Mercer/Fred Astaire
  • Music: Johnny Mercer/Fred Astaire
  • Notes: c. 1959

  
  

• Ah Loves Ya
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harold Arlen
  • Film: The Petty Girl (1950)

  
  

• Ain't Nature Grand
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Arthur Schwartz
  • Film: Dangerous When Wet (1953)

  
  

• The Air-Minded Executive
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Bernie Hanighen

  
  

• Al Fresco
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harold Arlen
  • Show: Saratoga (1959)

  
  

• All Mucked Up
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Andre Previn
  • Show: The Good Companions (London, 1974)

  
  

• All Through The Night
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Arthur Schwartz
  • Film: All Through The Night (1942)

  
  

• And Points Beyond
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Andre Previn
  • Show: The Good Companions (London, 1974)

  
  

• And So To Bed
  • Year: 1946
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Robert Emmett Dolan

  
  

• And The Angels Sing
  • Year: 1939
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Ziggie Elman
  • Show: Dream (1997)
  • Film: And The Angels Sing (1944)

  
  

• The Angels Cried
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Johnny Mercer

  
  

• Another Case Of The Blues
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Richard Myers
  • Show: Tattle Tales (1933)

  
  

• Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home
  • Year: 1946
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harold Arlen
  • Show: St. Louis Woman (1946)

  
  

• Ariane
  • Year: 1956
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Matt Malneck
  • Film: Love In The Afternoon (1957)

  
  

• Around The Bend
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Johnny Mercer

  
  

• Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing In A Hurry
  • Year: 1942
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Victor Schertzinger
  • Film: The Fleet's In (1942)
    Later films: Big Top Pee-Wee (1988)

  
  

• As Long As You Live
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Bernie Hanighen

  
  

• Autumn Leaves
  • Year: 1947
  • Words: Johnny Mercer (Additional Verse Lyric: Geoffrey Parsons)
  • Music: Joseph Kosma
  • Film: Hey Boy! Hey Girl! (1959)
  • Notes: Original French lyric Les Feuilles Mortes by Jacques Prevert.

  
  

• Aye, Lad
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Andre Previn
  • Show: The Good Companions (London, 1974)

  
  

• Baby Doll
  • Year: 1951
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harry Warren
  • Film: The Belle Of New York (1952)

  
  

• Baby, Don't You Quit Now
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Jimmy Rowles

  
  

• Baby-O
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: John Rotella

  
  

• Bachelor Dinner Song
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harry Warren
  • Film: The Belle Of New York (1952)

  
  

• The Bad Humor Man
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Jimmy McHugh
  • Film: You'll Find Out (1940)

  
  

• The Ballad Of Alvarez Kelly
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Johnny Green
  • Film: Alvarez Kelly (1966)

  
  

• Barefoot In The Park
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Neal Hefti
  • Film: Barefoot In The Park (1967)

  
  

• The Bathtub Ran Over Again
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Michael H. Cleary

  
  

• Be My Guest
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Johnny Mercer
  • Show: Top Banana (1951)

  
  

• The Bells Of Honolulu
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Franz Steininger

  
  

• Bernardine
  • Year: 1957
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Johnny Mercer
  • Film: Bernardine (1957)

  
  

• The Big Movie Show In The Sky
  • Year: 1949
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Robert Emmett Dolan
  • Show: Texas, Li'l Darlin' (1949)

  
  

• A Big, Beautiful Ball
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: John Williams
  • Film: Not With My Wife, You Don't (1966)

  
  

• The Bilbao Song
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Kurt Weill

  
  

• Bittersweet
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Michael Corda

  
  

• Bless Your Beautiful Hide
  • Year: 1954
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Gene De Paul
  • Show: Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (1982)
  • Film: Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (1954)

  
  

• Bless Your Heart
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Johnny Mercer

  
  

• Blue Rain
  • Year: 1939
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Jimmy Van Heusen

  
  

• Blues In The Night
  • Year: 1941
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harold Arlen
  • Show: Dream (1997)
  • Film: Blues In The Night (1941)
    Later films: Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
  • Notes: Academy Award nomination 1941.

  
  

• Blues Theme
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Johnny Mercer

  
  

• Bob White (Whatcha Gonna Swing Tonight?)
  • Year: 1937
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Bernie Hanighen

  
  

• Bon Appetit (Menu Song)
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harold Arlen
  • Show: Saratoga (1959)

  
  

• Bon Vivant
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Robert Emmett Dolan
  • Show: Foxy (1964)

  
  

• Bonne Nuit
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Johnny Mercer

  
  

• Boys Will Be Boys
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Lewis Gensler
  • Film: Old Man Rhythm (1935)

  
  

• Break It Up, Cinderella
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Hoagy Carmichael
  • Show: Walk With Music (1940)

  
  

• Buona Fortuna
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Saul Chaplin
  • Film: Merry Andrew (1958)

  
  

• C'est La Guerre
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Arthur Schwartz

  
  

• C-A-T Spells Cat
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Johnny Mercer
  • Film: Daddy Long Legs (1955)

  
  

• Cakewalk Your Lady
  • Year: 1946
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harold Arlen
  • Show: St. Louis Woman (1946)

  
  

• The Calypso Song
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harold Arlen
  • Film: The Petty Girl (1950)

  
  

• Camaraderie
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Andre Previn
  • Show: The Good Companions (London, 1974)

  
  

• Can't Teach My Old Heart New Tricks
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Richard Whiting
  • Film: Hollywood Hotel (1938)

  
  

• Captains Of The Clouds
  • Year: 1942
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harold Arlen
  • Film: Captains Of The Clouds (1942)

  
  

• The Caribees
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Robert Emmett Dolan
  • Film: Mr. Peabody And The Mermaid (1948)

  
  

• Central Park
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Matt Malneck
  • Film: Let's Make Music (1941)

  
  

• Charade
  • Year: 1963
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Henry Mancini
  • Show: Dream (1997)
  • Film: Charade (1963)
  • Notes: Academy Award nomination 1963.

  
  

• Chin Up, Stout Fellow
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Saul Chaplin
  • Film: Merry Andrew (1958)

  
  

• Chinquapin Bush
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harold Arlen
  • Show: St. Louis Woman (1946)

  
  

• The Cinderella Waltz
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Al Mack

  
  

• Cindy
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Paul Weston

  
  

• Circus Is Coming To Town
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Bernie Hanighen

  
  

• Clink Your Glasses
  • Film: Always Leave Them Laughing
  • Notes: * W: Bloom says Cahn, Hirschhorn says Mercer.

  
  

• Come On, Li'l Augie
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harold Arlen
  • Show: St. Louis Woman (1946)

  
  

• Come Rain Or Come Shine
  • Year: 1946
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harold Arlen
  • Show: St. Louis Woman (1946)
    Later shows: Dream (1997)

  
  

• Comes The Revolution, Baby
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Lewis Gensler
  • Film: Old Man Rhythm (1935)

  
  

• Confidentially
  • Year: 1938
  • Words: Al Dubin/Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harry Warren
  • Film: Garden Of The Moon (1938)

  
  

• Conversation While Dancing
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Paul Weston

  
  

• Corn Pickin'
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harry Warren
  • Film: Naughty But Nice (1939)

  
  

• Could Be
  • Year: 1938
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Walter Donaldson

  
  

• Countin' Our Chickens
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harold Arlen
  • Show: Saratoga (1959)

  
  

• The Country's In The Very Best Of Hands
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Gene De Paul
  • Show: Li'l Abner
  • Film: Li'l Abner (1959)

  
  

• Cowboy From Brooklyn
  • Year: 1938
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harry Warren
  • Film: Cowboy From Brooklyn (1938)

  
  

• Cream Puff
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Henry Mancini
  • Film: Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation (1962)

  
  

• Cuckoo In The Clock
  • Year: 1939
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Walter Donaldson

  
  

• The Cure
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harold Arlen
  • Show: Saratoga (1959)

  
  

• Daddy Long Legs
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Johnny Mercer

  
  

• The Dance Of Life
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Andre Previn
  • Show: The Good Companions (London, 1974)

  
  

• Dancing Through Life
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Johnny Mercer
  • Film: Daddy Long Legs (1955)

  
  

• Darkest Before The Dawn
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Andre Previn
  • Show: The Good Companions (London, 1974)

  
  

• Darling Lili
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Henry Mancini
  • Film: Darling Lili (1970)

  
  

• Darn Clever, These Chinee
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Hoagy Carmichael
  • Show: Walk With Music (1940)

  
  

• Day In - Day Out
  • Year: 1939
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Rube Bloom
  • Show: Dream (1997)

  
  

• Daybreak Blues
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Johnny Mercer

  
  

• Daydreaming (All Night Long)
  • Year: 1938
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harry Warren
  • Film: Gold Diggers In Paris (1938)

  
  

• Days Of Wine And Roses
  • Year: 1962
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Henry Mancini
  • Show: Dream (1997)
  • Film: Days Of Wine And Roses (1963)
  • Notes: Academy Award winner 1962.

  
  

• Dearly Beloved
  • Year: 1942
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Jerome Kern
  • Show: Dream (1997)
  • Film: You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
  • Notes: Academy Award nomination 1942.

  
  

• Deep South (In My Heart)
  • Year: 1932
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Archie Bleyer

  
  

• Derry Down Dilly
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Johnny Green
  • Film: Everything I Have Is Yours (1952)

  
  

• Dixie Isn't Dixie Anymore
  • Year: 1936
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Rube Bloom
  • Show: Blackbirds Of 1936 (London, 1936)
    Later shows: Blackbirds Of 1939 (1939)
  • Notes: * Also in show Rhapsody in Black (closed out of town, 1941) ?

  
  

• The Dixieland Band
  • Year: 1935
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Bernie Hanighen
  • Show: Dream (1997)

  
  

• Dog Eat Dog
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harold Arlen
  • Show: Saratoga (1959)

  
  

• A Dog Is A Man's Best Friend
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Johnny Mercer
  • Show: Top Banana (1951)

  
  

• Don't Ask Too Much Of Love
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Emmerich Kalman
  • Show: Paris In Spring (1931)

  
  

• Don't Run Away From The Rain
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Johnny Mercer

  
  

• Don't Think It Ain't Been Charming
  • Year: 1940
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Jimmy McHugh
  • Film: You'll Find Out (1940)
  • Notes: * Don't Think This Ain't Been Charming ???
    * Bloom suggests not in film.

  
  

• Down A Long Long Road
  • Year: 1933
  • Words: Johnny Mercer/Margot Millham
  • Music: Johnny Mercer/Margot Millham

  
  

• Down In The Valley
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Robert Emmett Dolan
  • Show: Texas, Li'l Darlin' (1949)

  
  

• Down T'Uncle Bill's
  • Year: 1934
  • Words: Johnny Mercer/Hoagy Carmichael
  • Music: Johnny Mercer/Hoagy Carmichael

  
  

• Down Through The Ages
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Phil Charig/Richard Myers
  • Show: The Pajama Lady (1930)

  
  

• Dr. Watson And Mr. Holmes
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Bernie Hanighen
  • Film: Gambling (1934)
  • Notes: * Source: Bloom.

  
  

• Dream
  • Year: 1944
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Johnny Mercer
  • Show: Dream (1997)
  • Film: Her Highness And The Bellboy (1945)

  
  

• Dream Awhile
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Phil Ohman

  
  

• Dream Peddler's Serenade
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: John Rufus Sharpe III

  
  

• Drinking Again
  • Year: 1962
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Doris Tauber

  
  

• Duration Blues
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Johnny Mercer

  
  

• Early Autumn
  • Year: 1949
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Ralph Burns/Woody Herman

  
  

• Echoes
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Johnny Mercer

  
  

• Eeny Meeny Miney Mo
  • Year: 1935
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Matt Malneck
  • Film: To Beat The Band (1935)

  
  

• Elevator Song
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Johnny Mercer
  • Show: Top Banana (1951)

  
  

• Emily
  • Year: 1964
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Johnny Mandel
  • Notes: Adaptation of theme from film The Americanisation of Emily.

  
  

• Empty Tables
  • Year: 1976
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Jimmy Van Heusen

  
  

• Even If I Say It Myself
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Hoagy Carmichael
  • Show: Walk With Music (1940)

  
  

• Every So Often
  • Year: 1947
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harry Warren

  
  

• Everything Happens To Me
  • Year: 1940
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Hoagy Carmichael
  • Show: Walk With Music (1940)

  
  

• Everything Is Tickety-Boo
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Saul Chaplin
  • Film: Merry Andrew (1958)

  
  

• The Facts Of Life
  • Year: 1960
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Johnny Mercer
  • Film: The Facts Of Life (1960)
  • Notes: Academy Award nomination 1960.

  
  

• Fancy Free
  • Year: 1950
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harold Arlen
  • Film: The Petty Girl (1950)

  
  

• Fare-Thee-Well To Harlem
  • Year: 1934
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Bernie Hanighen

  
  

• Fifi
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Arthur Schwartz
  • Film: Dangerous When Wet (1953)

  
  

• Fine Thing
  • Year: 1947
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Robert Emmett Dolan
  • Film: Dear Ruth (1947)
  • Notes: * Used instrumentally in film ?

  
  

• The Fleet's In
  • Year: 1942
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Victor Schertzinger
  • Show: Dream (1997)
  • Film: The Fleet's In (1942)

  
  

• Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear To Tread)
  • Year: 1940
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Rube Bloom
  • Show: Dream (1997)

  
  

• Footloose
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Andre Previn
  • Show: The Good Companions (London, 1974)

  
  

• Forever Amber
  • Year: 1947
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: David Raksin
  • Film: Forever Amber (1947)

  
  

• Frazier
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Jimmy Rowles

  
  

• Friend Of The Family
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Hoagy Carmichael
  • Show: Walk With Music (1940)

  
  

• G.I. Jive
  • Year: 1943
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Johnny Mercer
  • Show: Dream (1997)

  
  

• A Game Of Poker
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harold Arlen
  • Show: Saratoga (1959)

  
  

• Garden Of The Moon
  • Year: 1938
  • Words: Al Dubin/Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harry Warren
  • Film: Garden Of The Moon (1938)

  
  

• Gee, I Wish I'd Listened To My Mother
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Jimmy McHugh
  • Film: You're The One (1941)

  
  

• Gettin' A Man
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Johnny Mercer
  • Show: Saratoga (1959)

  
  

• The Girl Friend Of The Whirling Dervish
  • Year: 1938
  • Words: Al Dubin/Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harry Warren
  • Film: Garden Of The Moon (1938)

  
  

• The Girl In No Man's Land
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Henry Mancini
  • Film: Darling Lili (1970)

  
  

• The Glow Worm
  • Year: 1902
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Paul Lincke
  • Show: The Girl Behind The Counter (1907)
  • Film: The Story Of Vernon And Irene Castle (1939)
  • Notes: Original German title Gluhwurmchen.
    Previous lyric by Lilla Cayley Robinson.
    (Robinson lyric used in 'Girl Behind the Counter' and 'Story of Vernon And Irene Castle').

  
  

• Goin' Co'tin'
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Gene De Paul
  • Film: Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (1954)

  
  

• Good Companions
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Andre Previn
  • Show: The Good Companions (London, 1974)

  
  

• Goodbye
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Andre Previn
  • Show: The Good Companions (London, 1974)

  
  

• Goody Goody
  • Year: 1936
  • Words: Johnny Mercer/Matt Malneck
  • Music: Johnny Mercer/Matt Malneck
  • Show: Dream (1997)

  
  

• Goose Never Be A Peacock
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harold Arlen
  • Show: Saratoga (1959)

  
  

• Got To Wear You Off My Weary Mind
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harold Arlen

  
  

• Gotta Get Some Shut-Eye
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Walter Donaldson

  
  

• Great Guns
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harry Warren

  
  

• The Great North Road
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Andre Previn
  • Show: The Good Companions (London, 1974)

  
  

• Guardian Angel
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Johnny Mercer

  
  

• Hail To MacCrackens
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Johnny Mercer
  • Show: Top Banana (1951)

  
  

• Handy With Your Feet
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Richard Whiting
  • Film: Ready, Willing And Able (1937)

  
  

• Hang On To Your Lids, Kids
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harold Arlen
  • Film: Blues In The Night (1941)

  
  

• Hangin' On To You
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harold Arlen
  • Film: The Sky's The Limit (1943)
  • Notes: * Not mentioned by Bloom, Stubblebine, or Benjamin/Rosenblatt.

  
  

• Happy Ever After
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Dick Hyman

  
  

• Happy Times
  • Year: 1949
  • Words: Sylvia Fine
  • Music: Sylvia Fine
  • Film: The Inspector General (1949)
  • Notes: * Words by Johnny Mercer ? (credited in some sources)

  
  

• Harlem Butterfly
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Johnny Mercer

  
  

• Harlem To Hollywood
  • Year: 1936
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Rube Bloom

  
  

• Harvey, The Victory Garden Man
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harold Arlen
  • Film: The Sky's The Limit (1943)
  • Notes: * Not used in film, according to Bloom.

  
  

• Have You Got Any Castles, Baby?
  • Year: 1937
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Richard Whiting
  • Show: Dream (1997)
  • Film: Varsity Show (1937)

  
  

• Have You Heard (Gossip Song)
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harold Arlen
  • Show: Saratoga (1959)

  
  

• Have You Written Any Good Books Lately?
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Johnny Mercer

  
  

• Havin' A Ball
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Johnny Mercer

  
  

• Hayride
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harry Warren
  • Notes: * Not used in The Harvey Girls ? (See also Bloom.)

  
  

• He Didn't Have The Know How No How
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Robert Emmett Dolan

  
  

• He Loved Me Till The All Clear Came
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harold Arlen
  • Film: Star Spangled Rhythm (1942)

  
  

• He Shouldn't-A, Hadn't-A, Oughtn't-A Swang On Me
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Henry Mancini
  • Film: The Great Race (1965)

  
  

• He's Dead But He Won't Lie Down
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Hoagy Carmichael
  • Film: Timberjack (1955)

  
  

• Here Come The British
  • Year: 1934
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Bernie Hanighen

  
  

• Here Come The Waves
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harold Arlen
  • Film: Here Come The Waves (1944)

  
  

• Here Goes Nothing
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harold Arlen
  • Notes: Written for the show Saratoga (1959), but not used.

  
  

• Here's To My Lady
  • Year: 1951
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Rube Bloom

  
  

• High, Low, Jack And The Game
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harold Arlen
  • Notes: Written for the show St. Louis Woman (1946), but not used.

  
  

• The History Of The Beat
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Johnny Mercer
  • Film: Daddy Long Legs (1955)

  
  

• Hit The Road To Dreamland
  • Year: 1942
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harold Arlen
  • Film: Star Spangled Rhythm (1942)

  
  

• Holy Smoke (Can't Ya Take A Joke)
  • Year: 1939
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Royal Marsh

  
  

• Hooray For Hollywood
  • Year: 1937
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Richard Whiting
  • Show: Dream (1997)
  • Film: Hollywood Hotel (1938)
    Later films: Pepe (1960)

  
  

• Hooray For Spinach
  • Year: 1939
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Harry Warren
  • Film: Naughty But Nice (1939)

  
  

• Hootin' Owl Trail
  • Year: 1949
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Robert Emmett Dolan
  • Show: Texas, Li'l Darlin' (1949)

  
  

• Horseshoes Are Lucky
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Robert Emmett Dolan
  • Show: Texas, Li'l Darlin' (1949)

  
  

• How Little We Know
  • Year: 1944
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Hoagy Carmichael
  • Film: To Have And Have Not (1945)

  
  

• How Nice For Me
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Hoagy Carmichael
  • Show: Walk With Music (1940)

  
  

• Howdy Friends And Neighbors
  • Words: Johnny Mercer
  • Music: Gene DePaul

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