Natural inside Savannah, Georgia, he is regarded as one of America's greatest songwriters.

In a early Forties, Mercer was one of the co-founders of Capitol Records.

Mercer was besides the easily-regarded singer, sustaining the folksy cantabile quality. This processed him the natural to his have songs prefer "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive", "On The Atchison, Topeka And The Santa Fe", and "Lazybones".

Mercer typically was asked to write lyrics to already popular songs. A lyrics to "Laura", "Midnight Sun" & "Satin Doll" were completely written fallowing a songs were already hits. Mercer was too asked to write English lyrics to foreign songs. A best known lesson of this is "Autumn Leaves".

Johnny Mercer besides wrote a music for MGM films, including "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" (1954) and "Merry Andrew" (1958).

Around 1969 he helped publishers Abe Olman and Howie Richmond detected a National Academy of Popular Music's Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Mercer died within Bel Air, California.

Inside 1996 he was honored by the United States Postal Service with his portrait placed in the stamp.

Johnny Mercer has the Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1628 Vine Street, right outside a Capitol Records building.

His range in Savannah was a scene of the slaying recounted in the book & motion picture, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. A book includes considerable data just about Mercer.

Songs

Lyrics by Mercer, unless noted.

Mercer won 4 Academy Awards for Best Song:

"On The Atchison, Topeka And The Santa Fe" (1946) (music by Harry Warren) for The Harvey Girls "In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening" (1951) (music by Hoagy Carmichael) for Here Comes A Groom "Moon River" (1961) (music by Henry Mancini) for ''Breakfast at Tiffany's "Days of Wine and Roses" (1962) (music by Henry Mancini) for Days of Wine and Roses''

He wrote several more songs which use at times entered a Great American Songbook:

"Lazybones" (1933) (words & music by Mercer and Hoagy Carmichael) "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" (1935) (words and music by Mercer) "Jeepers Creepers" (1938) (music by Harry Warren) "And The Angels Sing" (1939) (music by Ziggy Elman) "Day In - Day Out" (1939) (music by Rube Bloom) "Blues In The Night" (1941) (music by Harold Arlen) "Hit The Road To Dreamland" (1942) (music by Harold Arlen) "I Remember You" (1942) (music by Victor Schertzinger) "Skylark" (1942) (music by Hoagy Carmichael) "That Old Black Magic" (1942) (music by Harold Arlen) "One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)" (1943) (music by Harold Arlen) "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive" (1944) (music by Harold Arlen) "Dream" (1944) (words and music by Mercer) "Laura" (1945) (music by David Raksin) "Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home" (1946) (music by Harold Arlen) "Come Rain Or Come Shine" (1946) (music by Harold Arlen) "Autumn Leaves" (1947) (music by Joseph Kosma) "Satin Doll" (music by Duke Ellington) "Midnight Sun" (music by Lionel Hampton and Sonny Burke) "Summer Wind" (1965) (music by Henry Mayer) "Drinking Again" (with Doris Tauber)