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- Condition
- Good
- Seller notes
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Type
- Gift Book
- Subject
- Science & Technology
- Special Attributes
- Illustrated
- ISBN
- 9780307265197
- EAN
- 9780307265197
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307265196
ISBN-13
9780307265197
eBay Product ID (ePID)
72443518
Product Key Features
Book Title
Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer
Number of Pages
488 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Topic
Instruction & Study / Songwriting, United States / 20th Century, Printed Music / Musicals, Film & TV, Reference, Lyrics, Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Music, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
90.7 Oz
Item Length
11.7 in
Item Width
10.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2009-024005
TitleLeading
The
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"This is the seventh volume in one of the most worthwhile scholarly enterprises of our time, the effort to collect all the lyrics of the great pop songwriters of the 20th century. . . . The scholarship is impressive . . . a labor of love . . . Amazingly prolific . . . Mercer tended to think of each lyric as complete in itself, a little poem . . . He seemed comfortable across the entirety of America, and said as much in song: 'Any place I hang my hat is home.' But he always kept up his connection to the South, which provided him with the inspiration for much of his best work. . . . The other great lyricists had many ear-bending adjectives in their quivers. But none of them ever came up with a more perfect word for a song than Johnny Mercer did when his Southern unconscious gave him the gift of 'huckleberry.'" --Barry Gewen, The New York Times Book Review "[Mercer] could be considered the best lyricist of the last five-score years. . . . one of the most evocative writers about the American South who's ever put pen to paper. . . . Enjoying a book such as this is akin to turning on an internal iPod. . . . Mercer wrote 'That Old Black Magic' and infused it--and everything else he copiously imagined--with that old knack magic." --David Finkle, The Huffington Post, "This is the seventh volume in one of the most worthwhile scholarly enterprises of our time, the effort to collect all the lyrics of the great pop songwriters of the 20th century. . . . The scholarship is impressive . . . a labor of love . . . Amazingly prolific . . . Mercer tended to think of each lyric as complete in itself, a little poem . . . He seemed comfortable across the entirety of America, and said as much in song: 'Any place I hang my hat is home.' But he always kept up his connection to the South, which provided him with the inspiration for much of his best work. . . . The other great lyricists had many ear-bending adjectives in their quivers. But none of them ever came up with a more perfect word for a song than Johnny Mercer did when his Southern unconscious gave him the gift of 'huckleberry.'" -Barry Gewen, The New York Times Book Review "[Mercer] could be considered the best lyricist of the last five-score years. . . . one of the most evocative writers about the American South who's ever put pen to paper. . . . Enjoying a book such as this is akin to turning on an internal iPod. . . . Mercer wrote 'That Old Black Magic' and infused it-and everything else he copiously imagined-with that old knack magic." -David Finkle, The Huffington Post From the Hardcover edition., "This is the seventh volume in one of the most worthwhile scholarly enterprises of our time, the effort to collect all the lyrics of the great pop songwriters of the 20th century. . . . The scholarship is impressive . . . a labor of love . . . Amazingly prolific . . . Mercer tended to think of each lyric as complete in itself, a little poem . . . He seemed comfortable across the entirety of America, and said as much in song: 'Any place I hang my hat is home.' But he always kept up his connection to the South, which provided him with the inspiration for much of his best work. . . . The other great lyricists had many ear-bending adjectives in their quivers. But none of them ever came up with a more perfect word for a song than Johnny Mercer did when his Southern unconscious gave him the gift of 'huckleberry.'" -Barry Gewen,The New York Times Book Review "[Mercer] could be considered the best lyricist of the last five-score years. . . . one of the most evocative writers about the American South who's ever put pen to paper. . . . Enjoying a book such as this is akin to turning on an internal iPod. . . . Mercer wrote 'That Old Black Magic' and infused it-and everything else he copiously imagined-with that old knack magic." -David Finkle,The Huffington Post, "[Mercer] could be considered the best lyricist of the last five-score years. . . . one of the most evocative writers about the American South who's ever put pen to paper. . . . Enjoying a book such as this is akin to turning on an internal iPod. . . . Mercer wrote 'That Old Black Magic' and infused it-and everything else he copiously imagined-with that old knack magic." -David Finkle,The Huffington Post
Synopsis
The seventh volume in Knopf's critically acclaimed Complete Lyrics series, published in Johnny Mercer's centennial year, contains the texts to more than 1,200 of his lyrics, several hundred of them published here for the first time. Johnny Mercer's early songs became staples of the big band era and were regularly featured in the musicals of early Hollywood. With his collaborators, who included Richard A. Whiting, Harry Warren, Hoagy Carmichael, Jerome Kern, and Harold Arlen, he wrote the lyrics to some of the most famous standards, among them, "Too Marvelous for Words," "Jeepers Creepers," "Skylark," "I'm Old-Fashioned," and "That Old Black Magic." During a career of more than four decades, Mercer was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song an astonishing eighteen times, and won four- for his lyrics to "On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe" (music by Warren), "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" (music by Carmichael), and "Moon River" and "Days of Wine and Roses" (music for both by Henry Mancini). You've probably fallen in love with more than a few of Mercer's songs-his words have never gone out of fashion-and with this superb collection, it's easy to see that his lyrics elevated popular song into art., The seventh volume in Knopf's critically acclaimed Complete Lyrics series, published in Johnny Mercer's centennial year, contains the texts to more than 1,200 of his lyrics, several hundred of them published here for the first time. Johnny Mercer's early songs became staples of the big band era and were regularly featured in the musicals of early Hollywood. With his collaborators, who included Richard A. Whiting, Harry Warren, Hoagy Carmichael, Jerome Kern, and Harold Arlen, he wrote the lyrics to some of the most famous standards, among them, "Too Marvelous for Words," "Jeepers Creepers," "Skylark," "I'm Old-Fashioned," and "That Old Black Magic." During a career of more than four decades, Mercer was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song an astonishing eighteen times, and won four: for his lyrics to "On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe" (music by Warren), "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" (music by Carmichael), and "Moon River" and "Days of Wine and Roses" (music for both by Henry Mancini). You've probably fallen in love with more than a few of Mercer's songs-his words have never gone out of fashion-and with this superb collection, it's easy to see that his lyrics elevated popular song into art.
LC Classification Number
ML54.6.M45C66 2009
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