Ralph C. Mitchell III
16 March
2010
THE SONGS: There are 542 different songs with lyrics by JOHNNY MERCER
in this collection, all on compact discs.
THE SINGERS: There are 2.976 different
performances of these songs by vocalists,
all on compact discs.
COMPOSERS: There are 116 different composers of the songs in this collection:
Harold Arlen 61 Matty Malneck 6
Johnny Mercer 56 Jimmy Rowles 5
Harry Warren 46 Jimmy Van Heusen 4
Gene DePaul 34 Windy Manone 3
Robert Dolan 30 Alfred Newman 3
Richard Whiting 23 Paul Weston 3
Henry Mancini 21 John Williams 3
Hoagy Carmichael 23 Steve Allen 2
Bernie Hanighen 16 Fred Astaire 2
Andre Previn 19 Blossom Dearie 2
Barry Manilow 13 Duke Ellington 2
Rube Bloom 10 Lewis Gensler 3
Arthur Schwartz 11 Gordon Jenkins 2
Jerome Kern 9 Arthur Kent 2
Jimmy McHugh 9 Sammy Nestico 2
Johnny Green 8 Phil Ohman 2
Walter Schertzinger 8 David Raskin 4
Saul Chaplin 7 Peter Tinturin 2
Walter Donaldson 6 Alec Wilder 2
Finally, there are 77 composers of one song each in this collection, including such famous musicians as Woody Herman, Bobby Troup, Benny Carter, Artie Shaw, Lionel Hampton, Laurindo Almeida, Neal Hefti, Errol Garner, Trummy Young, Ziggy Elman and Marian McPartland. Great Composers, such as Kurt Weill and Eugene Brecht, Johnny Mandel, Alex North, Marvin Hamlisch, Elmer Bernstein, Michel LeGrand and even Rimsky-Korsakov, are also represented in the group with one song each.
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Almeida, Laurendo |
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Aloma, Harold/Jacobs, Al |
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Bates, Charles |
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Bernstein, Elmer |
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Bleyer, Archie |
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Borne, Hal |
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Bozage, Donald |
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Bright, Ronnell |
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Carter, Benny |
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Charig, Philip/Myers,
Richard |
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Clarkson, Geoffrey |
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Cleary, Michael |
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Corda, Mike |
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Darin, Bobby/Mercer,
Johnny |
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Dexter |
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DiNovi, Gene |
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Elman, Ziggy |
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Foster, Stephen |
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Fried, Gerald |
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Gallegher/Shean |
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Garner, Erroll |
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Goodman, Benny |
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Goodman, Benny/McDonough,
Dick |
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Gray, Jerry |
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Hamlisch, Marvin |
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Hampton, Lionel/Burke,
Sonny |
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Hansen, Al |
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Hefti, Neal |
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Herman, Woody/Burns,
Ralph |
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Himber, Richard |
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Hodges, Johnny |
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Humphies, Rolfe |
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Jarvis, Al/Rene, Leon |
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Kahn, Donald |
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Kosma, Joseph |
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LaRocca, D. J./Shields,
Larry |
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LeGrand, Michel/Barclay,
Eddie |
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Lilley, Joseph |
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Lincke, Paul |
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Lindsey, Mort |
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Mandel, Johnny |
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Marsh, Royal |
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Marshall, Jack |
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Mayer, Henry |
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McGrath, Fulton |
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McGregor, Chummy |
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McPartland, Marian |
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Mendez, Jose Antonio |
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Milham, Margot |
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Miller, Eddie |
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Miller, Everett |
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Minard, Brian |
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Mundy, Jimmy/Young,
Trummy |
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North, Alex |
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Ohman, Phil |
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Ohman, Phil/Teetor, Macy |
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Opler, Alfred |
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Philippe-Gerard |
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Quadling, Lew |
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Raskin, Milt |
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Rimsky-Korsakov, Nicholai |
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Robison, Willard |
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Rotella, John |
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Samuels, Eddie |
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Scibetta, Tony |
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Sharpe, John Rufus |
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Shaw, Artie |
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Sigman, Carl/Meyer,
Joseph |
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Swanson, Robert |
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Tauber, Doris |
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Tinturin, Peter |
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Troup, Bobby |
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Wayne, Bernie |
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Weill, Kurt/Brecht,
Eugene |
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