List of songs with lyrics by Johnny Mercer
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Johnny Mercer was known principally as a lyricist, but he also wrote music, even composing music for other lyricists. He had number one hits singing his own and other people's songs.
| Year | Song title | Composer | Notable recordings | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive | Harold Arlen | Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters No. 2 Billboard Charts 1945 | |
| 1946 | Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home | Harold Arlen | ||
| 1945 | Autumn Leaves | Joseph Kosma, original French lyrics by Jacques Prévert (English lyrics written by Mercer) |
Title song sung by Nat King Cole from the film of the same name Autumn Leaves Roger Williams No. 1 Billboard Charts 1955 | |
| 1957 | Bernadine | Johnny Mercer | Pat Boone (#1 Billboard charts for 1 week 1957 | |
| 1941 | Blues in the Night | Harold Arlen | ||
| 1946 | Come Rain or Come Shine | Harold Arlen | ||
| 1939 | Cuckoo in the Clock | Walter Donaldson | ||
| 1939 | Day In, Day Out | Rube Bloom | ||
| 1962 | Days of Wine and Roses | Henry Mancini | ||
| 1944 | Dream | Johnny Mercer | The Pied Pipers (Billboard charts in 1945) Betty Johnson No. 9 Billboard charts 1958 | |
| 1967 | Drinking Again | Doris Tauber | ||
| 1946 | Early Autumn | Ralph Burns and Woody Herman | Woody Herman, 1946 | |
| 1940 | Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread) | Rube Bloom | ||
| 1902 | The Glow-Worm | Paul Lincke, the original German lyrics by Heinz Bolten-Backers, English lyrics by Johnny Mercer |
The Mills Brothers 3 weeks at No. 1 in 1952 (Billboard charts) | |
| 1936 | Goody Goody | Matty Malneck | Frankie Lymon (#20 in the US and No. 24 in the UK | |
| 1943 | Hit the Road to Dreamland | Harold Arlen | ||
| 1937 | Hooray for Hollywood | Richard A. Whiting | ||
| 1941 | I Remember You | Victor Schertzinger | Frank Ifield in 1962; No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart, No. 1 on the US "Easy Listening chart" | |
| 1942 | I'm Old Fashioned | Jerome Kern | ||
| 1936 | I'm an Old Cowhand from the Rio Grande | Johnny Mercer | ||
| 1951 | In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening | Hoagy Carmichael | ||
| 1938 | Jeepers Creepers | Harry Warren | ||
| 1961 | Love with the Proper Stranger | Elmer Bernstein | From the film of the same name, Love with the Proper Stranger | |
| 1954 | Lonesome Polecat | Gene de Paul | From the film Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | |
| ? | Once Upon a Summertime | Eddie Barclay, Michel Legrand, Eddy Marnay | ||
| 1973 | The Phony King of England | Johnny Mercer | From the Disney film, Robin Hood | |
| 1942 | Skylark (song) | Hoagy Carmichael | Glenn Miller & His Orchestra with vocals by Ray Eberle; No. 7 on the charts in 1942. | |
| 1949 | Moon Dreams | Chummy MacGregor, Johnny Mercer, | On the seminal Miles Davis album, Birth of the Cool | |
| 1975 | I'm Shadowing You | Blossom Dearie | ||
| ? | I Thought About You | Jimmy Van Heusen | ||
| 1954 | Something's Gotta Give | Johnny Mercer | In 1955 both The McGuire Sisters, reaching No. 5 and Sammy Davis, Jr., reaching No. 9 in the Billboard charts | |
| 1944 | How Little We Know | Hoagy Carmichael | Featured in the film To Have and Have Not | |
| 1944 | On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe | Harry Warren | Johnny Mercer version of the song reached No. 1 on the Billboard magazine charts in 1946 | |
| 1943 | Hit the Road to Dreamland | Harold Arlen | Featured in the film, Star Spangled Rhythm | |
| 1943 | I'm Doing It for Defense | Harold Arlen | Featured in the film, Star Spangled Rhythm | |
| 1943 | Old Glory | Harold Arlen | Featured in the film, Star Spangled Rhythm | |
| 1943 | He Loved Me Till the All-Clear Came | Harold Arlen | Featured in the film, Star Spangled Rhythm | |
| 1943 | On the Swing Shift | Harold Arlen | Featured in the film, Star Spangled Rhythm | |
| 1943 | Sharp as a Tack | Harold Arlen | Featured in the film, Star Spangled Rhythm | |
| 1943 | A Sweater, Sarong and a Peek-A-Boo Bang | Harold Arlen | Featured in the film, Star Spangled Rhythm | |
| 1958 | Pipes of Pan | Saul Chaplin | From the film Merry Andrew | |
| 1958 | Chin Up, Stout Fellow | Saul Chaplin | From the film, Merry Andrew | |
| 1958 | Everything is Ticketty-Boo | Saul Chaplin | From the film, Merry Andrew | |
| 1958 | You Can't Always Have What You Want | Saul Chaplin | From the film, Merry Andrew | |
| 1958 | The Square of the Hypotenuse | Saul Chaplin | From the film, Merry Andrew | |
| 1958 | Salud (Buona Fortuna) | Saul Chaplin | From the film, Merry Andrew | |
| 1944 | G.I. Jive | Johnny Mercer | Johnny Mercer with Paul Weston And His Orchestra No. 1 for week | |
| ? | Old Man Rhythm | Lewis Gensler | From the Astaire Rogers film Old Man Rhythm | |
| 1947 | Midnight Sun | Lionel Hampton and Sonny Burke
lyrics written subsequently by Johnny Mercer |
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| 1961 | Moon River | Henry Mancini | From the film Breakfast at Tiffany's | |
| 1943 | My Shining Hour | Harold Arlen | ||
| 1943 | One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) | Harold Arlen | ||
| 1945 | Out of This World | Harold Arlen |