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John Herndon Mercer ou Johnny Mercer est un auteur-compositeur et interprète américain. Il fut un chanteur populaire aussi bien en interprétant ses propres œuvres que celles écrites par d'autres. Des années 1930 aux années 1950, nombre de chansons écrites par Mercer devinrent de véritables hits. Il écrivit les paroles de plus de mille chansons, dont certaines destinées au cinéma et aux spectacles de Broadway. Parmi les voix célèbres qui interprétèrent ses textes, on peut citer entre autres Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Bing Crosby, Audrey Hepburn et Frank Sinatra. Johnny Mercer reçut quatre Oscars et deux Grammy Awards. Il est aussi l'un des cofondateurs de la maison d'édition des disques Capitol Records. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. novembre 1909 – 25. juin 1976
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Johnny Mercer: Citations en anglais

“When my life is through
And the angels ask me to recall
The thrill of them all
Then I shall tell them
I remember you”

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Song I Remember You

“I know all the songs that the cowboys know
'bout the big corral where the doggies go,
'Cause I learned them all on the radio.
Yippie yi yo kayah”

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Song I'm an old Cowhand

“The days of wine and roses laugh and run away like a child at play
Through the meadow land toward a closing door
A door marked "nevermore" that wasn't there before”

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Song The Days of Wine and Roses

“Cigarette holder,
which wigs me,
over her shoulder
she digs me:
Out cattin'
that Satin Doll.”

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Song "Satin Doll" (1953)

“From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe, wherever the four winds blow
I been in some big towns an' heard me some big talk, but there is one thing I know
A woman's a two-face, a worrisome thing who'll leave ya to sing the blues in the night.”

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Song Blues in the Night

“I remember too, a distant bell…
and stars that fell…
like the rain
out of the blue.”

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Song "I Remember You" (1941)

“Skylark,
Have you seen a valley green with Spring
Where my heart can go a-journeying,
Over the shadows in the rain
To a blossom covered lane?
And in your lonely flight,
Haven't you heard the music in the night,
Wonderful music,
Faint as a will-o-the-wisp,
Crazy as a loon,
Sad as a gypsy serenading the moon.”

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Song "Skylark" (1942)

“There's a long goodbye,
and it happens every day,
when a passerby
invites your eye
to come away.
Even as you smile a quick hello
you let her go,
you let the moment fly…
Too late you turn your head,
you know you've said
the Long Goodbye.”

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Song "The Long Goodbye" (1973)

“So you met someone who set you back on your heels - goody, goody
You met someone and now you know how it feels - goody, goody”

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Song Goody, Goody

“Shine little glow-worm, glimmer, glimmer.
Shine little glow-worm, glimmer, glimmer.
Lead us lest too far we wander.
Love's sweet voice is calling yonder.”

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Song The Glow-Worm

“[My] publicity agent … went to hear Father Divine and he had a sermon and his subject was 'you got to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative.' And I said 'Wow, that's a colorful phrase!”

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And I said 'Wow, that's a colorful phrase!'

Interviewed 1971 https://findingaids.library.unt.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=959&q=&rootcontentid=204947 by [Gilliland, John, Pop Chronicles the 40's: The Lively Story of Pop Music in the 40's, 978-1-55935-147-8, 31611854] Tape 1, side B.

Quoted by PDF, '40s Sounds Return to Radio, 1972-10-29, Oakland Tribune, Bob, MacKenzie, 2009-04-03, http://web.archive.org/web/20120209175145/http://www.sfradiomuseum.com/audio/ksfo/1972/Trib_Pop-Chronicles-Article-2_1972.pdf, 2012-02-09 http://www.bayarearadio.org/audio/ksfo/1972/Trib_Pop-Chronicles-Article-2_1972.pdf,

“You got to ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive
E-lim-i-nate the negative
And latch on to the affirmative.
Don't mess with mister inbetween.”

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Song Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive

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