From his playmates in Savannah, Mercer had picked up, along with a soft Southern dialect, traces also of the Gullah dialects of Africa.

It is, however, a disarming disguise, or perhaps a shield, for not only has Mercer proved himself to be one of the few great lyricists over the years, but also one who can function remarkably under pressure.

Mercer has also written both music and lyrics for several songs.

While Arlen and Mercer collaborated on Hot Nocturne, Mercer worked also with Arthur Schwartz on another film, Navy Blues.

He also finds a toad, thought to be extinct and considered to be Mercer ( the supposed Messiah )' s favorite animal.

The halftime show was a tribute to American jazz composer, pianist and bandleader Duke Ellington, also featuring the Grambling State University Band along with Ellington's son Mercer.

The Modern Lovers continued to be a popular live attraction, and on New Year ’ s Eve 1972 supported the New York Dolls at the Mercer Arts Center on a bill which also included Suicide and Wayne County.

Mercer may also refer to:

* Ron Mercer, American former basketball player at the University of Kentucky who also had a career in the National Basketball Association

" Jerome Kern considered him the supreme male interpreter of his songs and Cole Porter and Johnny Mercer also admired his unique treatment of their work.

Each of the three state row office winners also carried Mercer in 2008.

Parts of Van Wert and Mercer Counties were also transferred to Allen to form Spencer Township and part of Marion Township.

Parts of Van Wert and Mercer Counties were also transferred to Allen to form Spencer Township and part of Marion Township.

Mercer also boasts its NJTransit's stations, including Trenton, Hamilton, and Princeton Junction.

Mercer County houses a few limited access roads, such as Interstate 295, Interstate 195, and Interstate 95 ( which is also designated along the New Jersey Turnpike ).

Mercer County also has the distinction of being the famed landing spot for a fictional Martian invasion of the United States.

Mercer County is also the home of the minor league baseball team, the Trenton Thunder ( Eastern League Double-A affiliate of the New York Yankees ), and the minor league hockey team, the Trenton Titans, the ECHL affiliate of the NHL's Philadelphia Flyers and the AHL's Adirondack Phantoms.

It currently serves as the headquarters of the Marengo County Historical Society and also houses history exhibits and the works of Geneva Mercer, a Marengo County native who gained fame as an artist and sculptor.

Developed under the working title The Julie Brown Show, it also starred Marian Mercer as Julie's mother, June ; DeLane Matthews as Debra Deacon, a reporter on the fictional series Inside Scoop ; Susan Messing as Julie's roommate Cheryl ; and Kevin O ' Rourke as Inside Scoop producer Tony Barnow.

Windsor, also known as New Windsor, is a village in Rivoli Township, Mercer County, Illinois, United States.

Early settlers to the area came from Mercer County, West Virginia, which also has a county seat called Princeton.

The name comes from William Henry Harrison Mercer, a well known rancher in the Missouri River Valley for many years and for whom Mercer County is also named.

Their younger brother John Mercer Langston, who became the first black elected to the United States Congress from Virginia in 1888, also graduated from Oberlin.

( By chance, Mercer is the only county in the state that hosts I-95 and both its auxiliary routes.

Mercer first enlisted prominent local married couples to act as hosts for the women once they arrived to assuage Victorian era moral concerns over the propriety of importing single women to the frontier.

For three consecutive years ( 2009 – 2011 ), the human-resource-consulting firm Mercer ranked Vienna first in its annual " Quality of Living " survey of hundreds of cities around the world.

* Mercer Island is focal to annual performances by the Blue Angels during Seattle's summer Seafair celebration.

In Talking to Americans, Mercer, in his 22 Minutes guise as reporter " J. B. Dixon ", visited American cities to ask people on the street for their opinion on a Canadian news story — the joke for Canadians was that the news story was always fabricated, and either inherently ridiculous ( e. g. a border dispute between Quebec and Chechnya or an annual Toronto polar bear hunt ) or blatantly out of context ( e. g. wishing Canadians a " Happy Stockwell Day ".

Mercer identifies itself as the " Loon Capital of the World " in order to promote tourism.

In front of the Mercer Chamber of Commerce's information center, there is a, statue named " Claire de Loon.

The fiberglass Claire de Loon, mascot of Mercer

Mercer is also known for its Memorial Day Parade with the main street lined with 500 flags.

In the first eight seasons of 22 Minutes, Mercer provided some of the show's signature moments, including an Internet petition ( on the 22 Minutes website ) to force Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris.

In the 2000s, she appeared in several documentaries about singers and songwriters of her era, including Judy Garland: By Myself ( 2004 ), Fever: The Music of Peggy Lee ( 2004 ), Anita O ' Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer ( 2007 ), Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me ( 2009 ), and Michael Feinstein's American Songbook ( 2010 ).

May also wrote arrangements for many top singers, including Frank Sinatra, Nat " King " Cole, Anita O ' Day, Peggy Lee, Vic Damone, Bobby Darin, Johnny Mercer, Ella Fitzgerald, Jack Jones, Bing Crosby, Sandler and Young, Nancy Wilson, Rosemary Clooney and Ella Mae Morse.

Alumni of WBAI include Margot Adler, Abraham Aig, Jan Albert, Chris Albertson, Nancy Allen, Matt Alperin, Archie Altman, Lindsay Audin, Robbie Barish, Deborah Begel, Olenka Bohachevski, Delphine Blue, Peter Bochan, Bunny Bruce, Janice K. Bryant, Doreen Canto, Pepsi Charles, Frank Coffee, Candy Cohen, Janet Coleman, Neal Conan, Pat Conte, John Corigliano, Deloris Costello, Liza Cowan, Larry Cox, Joe Cumo, Ken Davis, Barbara Day, Ife Dancy, Dick Demenus, Kathy Dobkin, Mike Edl, Barika Taheer Edwards, Matt Edwards, Dick Elman, Bob Fass, Mike Feder, Charlie Finch, Richard Fioravanti, Paul Fischer, John Fisk, Sara Fishko, Joe Frank, Gary Fried, Jim Freund, Paul Gorman, Joanne Grant, Jeff Greenfield, Edward Haber, Doug Henwood, Lex Hixon, Charles Hobson, Milton Hoffman, Mary Houston, Susan Howe, Jimmy Howes, Rob Hunter, Timothy Jerome, Reggie Johnson, Larry Josephson, Sam Julty, Citizen Kafka, Jesse Keyes, Glo Kirby, Robert Knight, Alen Pol Kobryn, Chris Koch, Robert Kuttner, Richard Lamparski, Andy Lanset, Julius Lester, Al Lewis, John Lithgow, Sari Locker, Leonard Lopate, The Mighty G-Man, Ann MacMillan, Marian McPartland, Samori Marksmen, Margaret Mercer, Frank Millspaugh, Dale Minor, Kathy O ' Connell, Andrew Phillips, Betty Pilkington, Charles Pitts, Steve Post, Charles Potter, Robert Potts, David Rapkin, Desiree K. Robinson, David Rothenberg, Jay Rothman ( Zeke ), Charles Ruas, Eric Salzman, Lynn Samuels, Bill Schechner, Baird Searles, Judy Sherman, John J. Simon, Miles Smith, Peter Cedric Rock Smith ( aka: Rocky ), Jay Smooth, Bruce Soloway, A.

It also has featured weekly columns by libertarians Walter Williams, Vox Day, Ilana Mercer, as well as liberals such as Maralyn Lois Polak, Bill Press and pro-life moderate Nat Hentoff.

*" Day In, Day Out "-lyrics by Johnny Mercer

* Johnny Mercer ( 4-time Academy Award winning lyricist: " On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe ", " In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening ", " Moon River " with Henry Mancini, " Fools Rush In ", and " Days of Wine and Roses "; wrote music and lyrics for " Dream ", " Something's Gotta Give ", and " I Wanna Be Around "; wrote lyrics for " Midnight Sun ", " Day In, Day Out ", " Laura ", and " I Remember You ")

Other influential early interpreters of the Great American Songbook include Fred Astaire, Mildred Bailey, Tony Bennett, June Christy, Rosemary Clooney, Nat " King " Cole, Perry Como, Barbara Cook, Chris Connor, Bing Crosby, Vic Damone, Bobby Darin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Doris Day, Blossom Dearie, Billy Eckstine, Alice Faye, Helen Forrest, The Four Freshmen, Judy Garland, Eydie Gorme, Johnny Hartman, Dick Haymes, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Joni James, Jack Jones, Al Jolson, Cleo Laine, Frankie Laine, Steve Lawrence, Peggy Lee, Julie London, Dean Martin, Tony Martin, Johnny Mathis, Carmen McRae, Mabel Mercer, Helen Merrill, Anita O ' Day, Patti Page, Dinah Shore, Bobby Short, Nina Simone, Frank Sinatra, Keely Smith, Kay Starr, Jo Stafford, Barbra Streisand ( particularly in her earlier work ), Maxine Sullivan, Mel Tormé, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Ethel Waters, Margaret Whiting, Andy Williams, Joe Williams and Nancy Wilson.

Mercer's Whiteman association brought him into contact with Hoagy Carmichael, whose `` Snowball '' Mercer relyriced as `` Lazybones '', in which form it became a hit and marked the real beginning of Mercer's song-writing career.

Mercer read it, and so had a few of the others, but they could not tell which man had done it.

The main Earth religion is Mercerism, in which Empathy Boxes link simultaneous users into a collective consciousness based on the suffering of Wilbur Mercer, a man who takes an endless walk up a mountain while stones are thrown at him, the pain of which the users share.

Tormé and Miller discussed " That Old Black Magic " which was just emerging as a new song by Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen.

Most of the few thousands of the Royalists who escaped during the night were easily captured by Lilburne and Mercer, or by the militia which watched every road in Yorkshire and Lancashire.

After a summer in which the Bulls witnessed most major and minor free agents Tim Duncan, Grant Hill, Tracy McGrady, Eddie Jones and even Tim Thomas choose to stay with their teams ( or go elsewhere ) rather than sign with them, Krause signed free agent center Brad Miller and shooting guard Ron Mercer, and drafted power forward Marcus Fizer and traded draft pick Chris Mihm to Cleveland for the rights of guard Jamal Crawford.

Inspired by a Dear John letter he had received from his girlfriend, Raksin wrote the haunting theme for which Johnny Mercer later wrote lyrics.

This trend failed to hold true during the most recent 2004 Presidential election and 2008 Presidential election, in which Mercer County voted more conservatively than the rest of the state.

The county should not be confused with the city of Golden Valley, which is located in Mercer County.

The Mercer Oak, against which the dying general rested as his men continued to fight, appears on the county seal.

Mercer County has a County Executive form of government, in which the County Executive performs executive functions and a Board of Chosen Freeholders acts in a legislative capacity.

There are three US Routes that pass through Mercer, which are: U. S. Route 1 ( which bisects the county ), U. S. Route 130 and U. S. Route 206.

Additionally, Exit 3B along I-95 connects to to Scotch Road N, which provides access to all of Hopewell Township, Mercer County, New Jersey.

* The site of the Mercer Oak, against which the dying General Hugh Mercer rested while his men around him continued to fight the Battle of Princeton in 1777.

Mercer Island is a city in King County, Washington, United States and the name of the island in Lake Washington on which the city sits.

The series, which originally aired on Mondays for several seasons and later on Fridays, currently airs Tuesdays at 8: 30pm on CBC, after the Rick Mercer Report.

In the U. S. ( where the type was variously called roadster, speedster, runabout, or raceabout, there was Apperson, Kissel, Marion, Midland, National, Overland, Stoddard-Dayton, and Thomas among small models ( which today would be called sports cars ), while Chadwick, Mercer, Stutz, and Simplex were among large ones ( which might today be called sports sedans or grand tourers ).