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Ralph C. Mitchell III

16 March 2010

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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                                                      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.

 

Almeida, Laurendo

Aloma, Harold/Jacobs, Al

Bates, Charles

Bernstein, Elmer

Bleyer, Archie

Borne, Hal

Bozage, Donald

Bright, Ronnell

Carter, Benny

Charig, Philip/Myers, Richard

Clarkson, Geoffrey

Cleary, Michael

Corda, Mike

Darin, Bobby/Mercer, Johnny

Dexter

DiNovi, Gene

Elman, Ziggy

Foster, Stephen

Fried, Gerald

Gallegher/Shean

Garner, Erroll

Goodman, Benny

Goodman, Benny/McDonough, Dick

Gray, Jerry

Hamlisch, Marvin

Hampton, Lionel/Burke, Sonny

Hansen, Al

Hefti, Neal

Herman, Woody/Burns, Ralph

Himber, Richard

Hodges, Johnny

Humphies, Rolfe

Jarvis, Al/Rene, Leon

Kahn, Donald

Kosma, Joseph

LaRocca, D. J./Shields, Larry

LeGrand, Michel/Barclay, Eddie

Lilley, Joseph

Lincke, Paul

Lindsey, Mort

Mandel, Johnny

Marsh, Royal

Marshall, Jack

Mayer, Henry

McGrath, Fulton

McGregor, Chummy

McPartland, Marian

Mendez, Jose Antonio

Milham, Margot

Miller, Eddie

Miller, Everett

Minard, Brian

Mundy, Jimmy/Young, Trummy

North, Alex

Ohman, Phil

Ohman, Phil/Teetor, Macy

Opler, Alfred

Philippe-Gerard

Quadling, Lew

Raskin, Milt

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nicholai

Robison, Willard

Rotella, John

Samuels, Eddie

Scibetta, Tony

Sharpe, John Rufus

Shaw, Artie

Sigman, Carl/Meyer, Joseph

Swanson, Robert

Tauber, Doris

Tinturin, Peter

Troup, Bobby

Wayne, Bernie

Weill, Kurt/Brecht, Eugene

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Ralph C. Mitchell

16 March 2010

 

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