revised- May 15, 2008

Ralph has compiled a listing of  1812 performances of 505 Mercer songs, which appear in CD format. Thanks Ralph for agreeing to share this most valuable resource with the worldwide readers of the Johnny Mercer Educational Archives!

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There are 106 different composers represented among the 505 songs:

• Harold Arlen = 61
• Johnny Mercer= 51
• Harry Warren= 44
• Gene DePaul= 32 
• Robert Dolan=30
• Richard Whiting=23
• Henry Mamcini=19
• Bernie Hanighen=17
• Hoagy Carmichael=17
• Andre Previn=15
• Barry Manilow=13
• Rube Bloom=9
• Jerome Kern=9
• Victor Schertzinger=8
• Johnny Green=8
• Arthur Schwartz=9
• Jimmy McHugh=8
• Walter Donaldson=6
  Saul Chaplin=6
  Matty Malneck=7
• Jimmy Rowles=5
  Jimmy Van Heusen=4
• Alfred Newman=3
• Lewis Gensler=3
• John Williams=3
  Paul Weston=3
  David Raskin=2
• Fred Astaire=2
• Blossom Dearie=2
  Alec Wilder=2
• Gordon Jenkins=2
• Wingy Manone=2
• Sammy Nestico=2
• Duke Ellington =2
  Steve Allen =2
  Phil Ohman=2
• Benny Goodman=2
•  
• plus 71 other composers with one song each; a total of 106 different composers.

• Almeida, Laurendo

  Aloma, Harold/Jacobs, Al

  Bates, Charles

  Bernstein, Elmer

  Bleyer, Archie

  Borne, Hal

  Bozage, Donald

  Bright, Ronnell

  Carter, Benny

  Cleary, Michael Clarkson, Geoffrey

  Darin, Bobby/Mercer, Johnny

  Dexter

  Elman, Ziggy

  Fine, Sylvia Foster, Stephen (Johnny wrote a special lyric in 1940)

  Fried, Gerald

  Gallegher/Shean

  Garner, Erroll

  Goodman, Benny/McDonough, Dick

  Gray, Jerry

  Hampton, Lionel/Burke, Sonny

  Hefti, Neal

  Herman, Woody/Burns, Ralph

  Himber, Richard Hodges, Johnny

  Humphies, Rolfe Jarvis, Al/Rene, Leon

  Kahn, Donald

  Kosma, Joseph

  LaRocca, D. J./Shields, Larry

  LeGrand, Michel/Barclay, Eddie

  Lilley, Joseph

  Lincke, Paul Lindsey, Mort

  Mandel, Johnny Marsh, Royal

  Marshall, Jack Mayer, Henry

  McGrath, Fulton

  McGregor, Chummy

  McPartland, Marian

  Mendez, Jose Antonio

  Milham, Margot

  Miller, Eddie

  Miller, Everett

  Minard, Brian

  Mundy, Jimmy/Young, Trummy

  North, Alex

  Ohman, Phil

  Ohman, Phil/Teetor, Macy

  Opler, Alfred

  Philippe-Gerard

  Quadling, Lew

  Raskin, Milt

  Rimsky-Korsakov, Nicholai

  Robison, Willard

  Rotella, John

  Samuels, Eddie

  Scibetta, Tony

  Sharpe, John Rufus

  Shaw, Artie

  Sigman, Carl/Meyer, Joseph

  Swanson, Robert

  Tauber, Doris

  Tinturin, Peter Troup, Bobby

  Wayne, Bernie

  Weill, Kurt/Brecht, Eugene

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