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John Herndon “Johnny” Mercer (1909–76) remained in the forefront of American entertainment from the 1930s through the 1960s, writing over fifteen-hundred songs, collaborating with all the great popular composers and jazz musicians of his day, working in Hollywood and on Broadway, and co-founding Capitol Records where he promoted the careers of Nat “King” Cole, Margaret Whiting, Peggy Lee, and other top performers. Mercer’s lyrics-originally sung by Bing Crosby, Billie Holiday, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Lena Horne and today by scores of others-form a canonical chapter in the Great American Songbook.

Four of Mercer’s eighteen nominations received Academy Awards for Best Song and of his one hundred hits, of the thirty-six that made the Top Ten, fourteen climbed to No. 1. As an entertainer he sang on four songs to reach the top spot while also hosting radio shows and appearing on television. Exhaustively researched, Glenn T. Eskew’s biography improves upon earlier popular treatments of the Savannah, Georgia–born songwriter to produce a sophisticated, insightful, evenhanded examination of one of America’s most popular and successful chart-toppers.

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Eskew brings to life the vibrant music scene around the musician from the 1930s to the 1960s and uncovers the collaborations, friendships, and struggles that made Mercer a success. This thoroughly researched and compelling biography will appeal to scholars and students of popular American music.--Emily Hamstra "Library Journal "

Eskew does a superb job of chronicling the rise of songwriting icon Johnny Mercer, from his beginnings in Savannah, Georgia, to his early career in New York ti his becoming a central figure in contributing to the Great American Songbook. . . . Accessible and very well researched, as one would expect of work by a scholar of Eskew's stature, this book is an invaluable resource.--T. R. Harrison "Choice "

Allows us to conceive of 'Southern music' as an expression of the Southern diaspora, and thereby opens up new ways to think about Mercer and about the broader landscape of American music.

--Gavin James Campbell "author of Music and the Making of a New South "

Johnny Mercer, one of Georgia's--no, one of America's--greatest natural resources, is astutely celebrated by this valuable addition to his growing bibliography.

--Stanley Booth "author of The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones "

This engaging biography brims with fresh insights about southern culture and its relationship to American music. Eskew reveals Johnny Mercer as a carrier of the South's interracial culture to the nation and the world. This book is the most original and carefully documented contribution I have seen to understanding the role of a creative southerner in the global culture. Readers will appreciate Eskew's re-creation of Mercer's world that intersected with so many seminal entertainment figures. It is altogether successful in sketching the regional context that produced Mercer's music.

--Charles Reagan Wilson "Editor-in-chief of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture "

In this smart and meticulously researched biography, Georgia State University historian Glenn T. Eskew ac-cent-tchu-ates another of Mercer's roles: architect of popular music during the late 1940s and the '50s, which Eskew calls the Age of the Singer.--Dennis Drabelle "Washington Post "

No other songwriter appears as successfully involved in so many facets of America's entertainment industry in the twentieth century, ' Glenn T. Eskew claims convincingly in Johnny Mercer. . . . Although Johnny Mercer is ponderous at times, it does justice to the giant accomplishments of the 'pixie from Dixie.--Ken Emerson "Wall Street Journal "

Historians have tried to define the South, but few will leave you humming the Great American Songbook quite like Glenn T. Eskew does in Johnny Mercer.--Atlanta Magazine
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GLENN T. ESKEW is a professor of history at Georgia State University. He is the author of But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle, editor of Labor in the Modern South, and coeditor of Paternalism in a Southern City.

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