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THE JOHNNY MERCER EDUCATIONAL ARCHIVES

Name: Stan McIntire
Email:whiteman_70@hotmail.com
Location: Cleveland, Ohio United States
Date: Wednesday, September 30, 1998 at 08:33:26
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What a splendid job well done on the tremendous and marvelous research on Johnny Mercer. Just one thing - add some more interesting tid-bits about the famous sidemen and bandleaders he worked with in his career/life.Thanks a million!

Name: Bob Cother
Email:cother@cobweb.com.au
Location: Adelaide, S.A. Australia
Date: Monday, September 28, 1998 at 06:15:43
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Skylark is the greatest song ever written...or maybe Midnight Sun!

Name: Paul Mercer
Email:PMe727@aol.com
Location: Lakewood, N.J. USA
Date: Sunday, September 27, 1998 at 12:57:54
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You have done an outstanding job with this site!

Name: Colin
Email:Gloscol@aol.com
Location: Cheltenham, England
Date: Sunday, September 27, 1998 at 11:53:57
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Nice site, a very good memorium to one of the wolrd's greatest song writers

Name: Michele Bensen
Email:Benjazz@yahoo.com
Location: Pittsburgh, Pa United States
Date: Thursday, September 24, 1998 at 19:19:09
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I've been singing Johnny Mercer tunes for a long time now and still find his lyrics and musicstand the test of time. When a young person comes up to me after a concert and says how much they enjoyed "Candy" or "Dream" or "Come Rain Or Come Shine",it makes me feel good that theylike the lyrics that mean so much and have something real to say. This is a great way to find outmore on this wonderful composer, his music will never die. I've sung in Savannah, Ga. many times and I still take the time to go to his grave and say "Thanks" for the joy his music brought to the world. Michele Bensen

Name: Maureen
Email:finnsa@global.co.com
Location: Benoni, South Africa
Date: Wednesday, September 23, 1998 at 13:13:16
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I was looking for more info on the great Billy Eckstine and found Johnny Mercer too, what a bonus.Great site, thanks.

Name: Maureen
Email:finnsa@global.co.com
Location: Benoni, South Africa
Date: Wednesday, September 23, 1998 at 13:09:00
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I was looking for more info on the great Billy Eckstine and found Johnny Mercer too, what a bonus.Great site, thanks.

Name: Tina Fraser and Heather Ritchie
Email:mailto:latinotina@hotmail.com,%20Alastery@hotmail.com
Location: Moncton, Riverview, NB Canada
Date: Monday, September 21, 1998 at 07:34:25
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Its good. (visited looking for school project... ) but..its cool. way to go.

Name: George Wedge
Email:gwedge@sunflower.com
Location: Lawrence, KSDate: Saturday, September 19, 1998 at 15:33:52
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Whatcha know. I finally have internet (but I lost Prodigy).George

Name: stephen yoda
Date: Friday, September 18, 1998 at 12:10:52
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Name: Bob Monroney
Email:bobnlala@uswest.net
Location: Arvada, CO USA
Date: Friday, September 18, 1998 at 08:52:59
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Great website !!! I needed lyrics to "Emily" and Voila !!!I found them here ! Great fun with a great American.Thanks to Bob Binder who led me mere.

Name: Jeanne Koch
Email:jkochk@aol.com
Location: Portland, OR usa
Date: Thursday, September 17, 1998 at 19:14:02
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How do I reach you by E Mail? Your WEB page doesntgive that info. Please send want list rather than have list.Easier for me. Love what you are doing. Mercer and his works are favorites of mine. Jeanne

Name: Jeanne Koch
Date: Thursday, September 17, 1998 at 18:52:25
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Name: Lekita Scott
Email:lss@ctw.com
Location: Austin, TX USA
Date: Thursday, September 17, 1998 at 13:57:41
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Name: Beth McClure
Email:wolfpcklvr@aol.com
Location: Greensboro, NC US
Date: Tuesday, September 15, 1998 at 12:55:45
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I am a college student who has recently "discovered" Johnny Mercer and I think his lyrics are so much more emotionally deep than anything of my generation. Thanks for helping me get a little insight into his work.

Name: Lynda
Email:donhowe@mci2000.com
Location: Miami, FL USA
Date: Monday, September 14, 1998 at 18:23:48
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Been searching for months for the song Emily...my soon to be's new granddaughter's name...Should have know it was by Johny Mercer. It'll be her lullaby...his gift is neverending....Thank you

Name: beth johnstone
Email:beth.johnstone@juno.com
Location: houston, tx usa
Date: Sunday, September 13, 1998 at 22:14:24
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really enjoyed this website....my father,phil kraus,a former studio musician,recorded practically all of his songs...i grew up with his music,not knowing that he wrote it all!

Name: linda d. o'sullivan
Email:sully@clarityconnect.com
Location: owego, ny us
Date: Sunday, September 13, 1998 at 16:11:30
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On a personal note! I'm told that my great great grand parents, Robert Quincy Butler and, Norsis(or Norciea) Elizabeth Mercer Butler are Aunt & Uncle to Johnny mercer. I have more information but, I don't want to put too much on this guest page. Please respond for my grandmother Beulah Butler is 87yrs. old and would love to get any information for our famil tree. Thank you for your help, linda

Name: John Mourning
Email:jmourning@hotmail.com
Location: Mesa, AZ USA
Date: Saturday, September 12, 1998 at 20:22:34
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Very nice site. but I was disappointed that when I tried to look at the lyrics to "Days of Wine and Roses" I got a URL not found message. Otherwise very nice.

Name: Mandy "Is Two" Mercer-Neder
Email:mneder@ix.netcom.com
Location: Palm Desert, Ca USA
Date: Friday, September 11, 1998 at 01:21:33
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Great to see the guestbook back online. Based on my last entry in your guestbook, I have received some very nice notes from fans of yourweb page. Although some of my responses have been delayed I am returningtheir notes and enjoying every bit of it. Please note in a earlier requestregarding "Atcheson Topeka and the Santa Fe" he was riding Southern Pacificand saw an ATSF train pass by and tought "What if....." Great Site.

Name: Phil Rogers
Email:rogers@accutek.com
Location: Reno, NV USA
Date: Thursday, September 10, 1998 at 17:08:54
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Terrific Site! What a great way to honor a great man.As a musician, I have played his music for many yearsand never cease to be amazed at his talent.

Name: Ronald L. Roan
Email:mason62@worldnet.att.net
Location: Sanford, FL USA
Date: Thursday, September 10, 1998 at 17:05:13
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As a former teacher and the father of a very tallented daughter, I think that Mercer's songs are "just what the doctor ordered" in this world of "music" today.

Name: Kunihiro WAKAYAMA
Email:wakayama@dd.catv.ne.jp
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Date: Saturday, September 5, 1998 at 15:34:43
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I like Johnny Mercer and his entire songs he wrote.Recently I sing "One For My Baby" in his style.

Name: tomer skurnik
Email:skurnik@strauss.co.il
Location: kfar tavor, israel
Date: Saturday, September 5, 1998 at 12:16:37
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I have learned about johny from the book "midnight in the gardenof good and evil "great sight !!!!!

Name:Val Peery
Email:GemValley@webtv.net
Location: Richardson, tx Dallas
Date: Wednesday, September 2, 1998 at 21:44:13
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Thanks for the great website.I went offto war in l944 singing the GI Jive andloving all the Mercer songs. I've beena JM collecter for about a year now.

Name: Mike Bera
Email:GnarledOak@cyberdude.com
Location: Austin, Tx usa
Date: Tuesday, September 1, 1998 at 22:11:30
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I have long admired the work of Johnny Mercer.

Name: Jan Kaplan
Location: Fort Myers, flDate: Tuesday, September 1, 1998 at 20:54:23
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Name: ANDY BACKE
Email:ABACKE7550@AOL.COM
Date: Monday, August 31, 1998 at 19:58:42
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it's impossible for me to express how much johnny mercers songs meant to me , growing up in the forties in nyc. the paramount,strand,capitol,and roxy theaters, i missed very few of the stage shows [jimmy dorsey with helen o'connell and bob eberly ] playing and singing all those wonderful songs of johnny mercer. thank's a million john !!!

Name: Greg Fahey
Email:GLFahey@worldnet.att.net
Location: St.Paul, Mn. USA
Date: Monday, August 31, 1998 at 14:11:55
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I just discovered your site. I didn't know that Johnny wrote several of my favorite songs from that era. I once heard that he wrote "On the Atchison, Topeka & the Santa Fe" as he waited for an "A,T & SF" train to pass. Any truth to this?

Name: John Petters
Email:jpettjazz@aol.com
Location: Wisbech, England
Date: Saturday, August 29, 1998 at 19:01:14
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Excellent and interesting site on one of my favourite composers and singers. Keep up the good workbest wishesJohn Petters - Jazz drummer & bandleader

Name: Josh Ozersky
Email:josh_ozersky@yahoo.com
Location: Corning, NYDate: Friday, August 28, 1998 at 13:57:34
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Superb site. I only wish I had been the one to have though of making such a site to honor the great J.M.

Name: Rodger Skidmore
Email:rodger11@hotmail.com
Location: Atlanta, GA USA
Date: Friday, August 28, 1998 at 12:52:03
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This is really what the internet is all about. Terrific.Found a lot of information. Only problem was I could not leave a message on the BBS.Tried to leave the following:My wife is going to be doing a concert in France in September and she would like to do both the English and French versions to Once Upon A Summertime.English lyrics are by Johnny Mercer with music by Michel Legrand and Eddie Barclay. The French version is entitled" La Valse Des Lilas" with the French lyrics by Eddy Marnay.I would appreciate any and all help on this.Thanks.But then I received the following:CGI ErrorThe specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are:Can't open perl script "C:\InetPub\wwwroot\johnnymercer\cgi-johnnymercer\wwwboard.pl": No such file or directory Thanks

Name:Ranjan
Email:webmaster@windsornet.com
Location: west windsor, nj usa
Date: Thursday, August 27, 1998 at 06:31:53
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The Guestbook is back online!

Name: Eve Kleppe
Email: evewinner@ameritech.net
Date: 8/24/98 at 9:50:08 PM
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Hi, just love hearing about Johnny Mercer. Loved all the songs he did especially Ugly Chile. I think that was super. Enjoyed your site very much. Thanks for all the work you did on it. Eve

Name: Ralph Mitchell
Email: RCM3Sav@aol.com
Date: 8/24/98 at 11:21:45 AM
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This site is terrific! I am a collector of Johnny Mercer tunes on CD. Currently, I have 579 performances of 230 different songs. I have found several Mercer songs not included in Martin Hall's list and would like his email address to send them to him. Also, I have many more CDs that are not included in your lists if you would like them. Thanks for your website!

Name: Larry Long
Email: LLong@flash.net
Date: 8/23/98 at 11:21:48 PM
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I was looking for the sheet music for Jeepers Creepers. At least I got the chord progressions. Please let me know if I overlooked the sheet music. Thanks.

Name: AL TRETTER
Email: T143566@WEBTV.NET
Date: 8/23/98 at 9:59:34 PM
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JOHNNY MERCER WAS YHE GREATEST. I GREW UP WITH HIS SONGS AND LOVED THEM ALL. TRIBUTE TO JOHN.

Name: Terri Delaune
Email: terri.delaune@mci.com or tdelaune1@aol.com
Date: 8/23/98 at 3:53:59 PM
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Thank you for going to the trouble to create this website.

Name: CHARLES MARTINEZ
Email: LOUCHUCKK@WORLDNET.ATT.NET
Date: 8/22/98 at 8:35:10 PM
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Very well done I'm most appreciate what you have done.

Name: Lewis Smith
Email: lasmith@bellsouth.net
Date: 8/21/98 at 8:09:08 AM
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Are only the graphics of the sheet music covers available? Not the music manucsripts? That would be the deal!!

Name: Chuck Steiger
Email: acstiger@email.msn.com
Date: 8/20/98 at 8:57:36 PM
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Great Site dedicated to a great man in the World of Music.

Name: Irwin Bloomfield
Email: Bloomyso@aol.com
Date: 8/18/98 at 2:19:37 PM
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I love all the things that Johny Mercer has done I'm a hugh fan of his. I'm 77 yrs old and as a kid had all the records and knew all the words of the tunes of the day. At tennis this morning I was trying to remember the name of the drumer and big base player that made "Big noise from Wanetcia" famous, can you help me. Thank you Bloomyso

Name: beth meyers
Email: bethmeyers@web.tv.net
Date: 8/17/98 at 11:11:26 AM
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what a thrill to find this web site. i was covered with goosebumps as I listened to piano selections of mercer's wonderful songs. thank you.

Name: Edward Wickens
Email: Wixenz@aol.com
Date: 8/16/98 at 10:02:56 PM

Name: Dr. Steve A. Morris
Email: dmorris@altamaha.net
Date: 8/14/98 at 10:14:55 PM

Name: Mary
Email: jpierce78@aol.com
Date: 8/14/98 at 3:54:37 AM
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Just found your website and have thoroughly enjoyed everything about Johnny Mercer. Thanks.

Name: Phyllis
Email: cristyba@aol.com
Date: 8/13/98 at 12:21:03 AM
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Very Nice! They certainly don't write them like this anymore! Thank you!

Can't begin to tell you how musch I have enjoyed an evening stroll through Johnny Mercer land. God, what a joy his music was and is and will continue to be. My thanksto all who put together this great trribute-site. It is (sorry 'bout this John) Too Marvelous For Words. Regards, Bob

Name: carol beiser
Email: carolbinfl@webtv.net
Date: 8/11/98 at 8:38:02 PM
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A GREAT SITE LOVE IT! I WAS READING THE BOOK IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL AND THEY TALKED ABOUT SAVANAH AND JOHNNY M SO I WENT LOOKING FOR HIM ON THE WEB AND FOUND YOUR SITE!

Name: CAROL BEISER
Email: carolbinfl@web.tv
Date: 8/10/98 at 6:51:08 PM
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I am reading midnight in the garden of good and evil and they talk about Jonny Mercer quite a bit so I took a break to look on the internet and found this great site! I am new at this interet stuff and I find so many great things! Keep up the good work! It is so intersting!

Name: Frances Moore
Email: fmoore@kih.net
Date: 8/9/98 at 4:26:57 AM
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Tell me where I can find the lyrics to the song "ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE" Thanks

Name: Ed Shanahan
Email: Duketer@Baldcom.net
Date: 8/8/98 at 9:27:56 PM
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Searching for arrangement of the tune "One For My Baby". The Johnny Mercer Website is great. I was impressed. Thank you.

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