His father, George A. Mercer, was descended from an honored Southern family that could trace its ancestry back to one Hugh Mercer, who had emigrated from Scotland in 1747.

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

When he remembered that he might have not signed the check, Mercer made out another for the same amount, instructing the bank to destroy the other -- especially if he had happened to have absent-mindedly signed both of them.

He had yet to meet Harold Arlen, for although they had `` collaborated '' on `` Satan's Li'l Lamb '', Mercer and Harburg had worked from a lead sheet the composer had furnished them.

When Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen began their collaboration in 1940, Mercer, like Arlen, had several substantial film songs to his credit, among them `` Hooray For Hollywood '', `` Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride '', `` Have You Got Any Castles, Baby??

On the morning of November 17th, Cornwallis and 2,000 men had left Philadelphia with the object of capturing Fort Mercer at Red Bank, New Jersey.

B'dikkat had turned to the next knot of people when the super-condamine hit Mercer.

Mercer wondered how long the super-condamine had lasted him.

Mercer did not know what an `` Earth-week '' was, since he had not been a well-read man before his conviction, but he got nothing more from the half-man at that time.

When he said it, they thought it exceedingly profound, though none of them understood it, since it was simply the amount of time that Mercer had been on Shayol:

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

His son Mercer Ellington, who had already been handling all administrative aspects of his father's business for several decades, led the band until his own death in 1996.

The Civic Auditorium ( later the Opera House, now McCaw Hall ), the ice arena ( later Mercer Arena ), and the Civic Field ( rebuilt in 1946 as the High School Memorial Stadium ), all built in 1927 had been placed there based on that plan, as was an armory ( the Food Circus during the fair, later Center House ).

Mercer Ellington has stated that Juan Tizol invented the melody to " Caravan " in 1936 as a result of his days studying music in Puerto Rico ; where they couldn't afford much sheet music so the teacher would turn the music upside down after they had learned to play it right-side up.

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

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

By 1980, he began a more active film career having appeared as a soldier in Steven Spielberg's big-budget comedy 1941 and had a supporting role as Burton Mercer, " Joliet " Jake's probation / parole officer in The Blues Brothers.

Host Rick Mercer read a spot saying Hull has been misquoted, that he had actually said, " Sittler had some good ideas.

Mercer County is a county located in West Virginia since that U. S. state was formed in 1863.

Garrard County was formed on December 17, 1796 from parts of Lincoln County, Madison County and Mercer County.

It was formed in 1795 from parts of Woodford, Mercer and Shelby counties.

The team is formed by Tess Mercer to track down Doomsday.

The 3rd Canadian Division was formed in France in December 1915 under the command of Major-General Malcolm Mercer.

In 1908 Skeel formed the Mercer Land Company and platted several blocks adjoining the railroad tracks.

The collaboration was much more successful than expected and Strays Don't Sleep was formed with Neilson Hubbard, Brian Bequette, Billy Mercer and Steve Latanation.

In an August vote, Mercer was excluded from the elected leadership of the new regiments formed by the Virginia Convention because he was a " northern Briton ," but on September 12 he was elected Colonel of the Minute Men of Spotsylvania, King George, Stafford, and Caroline Counties.

Its purpose was threefold – to relieve pressure on the French armies at Verdun, to inflict as heavy losses as possible on the German armies, and to aid allies on other fronts by preventing any further transfer of Germany troops from the west .” The Canadian Corps is formed after receiving the 2nd and 3rd division ; its first commander was Major-General M. S. Mercer.

Following a meeting at the Harrow Inn on 26 January 1792 a group of some 80 local men ( a significant percentage of the sparse population ) formed a group for ' the protection of persons and property ' with a list of crimes, fines and rewards ( transcript of document in the T. S. Mercer Collection of parish records, Dittons Library )

It lies in Mercer County, New Jersey, and is completely surrounded by Princeton Township, from which it was formed in 1894.

Originally part of Mercer County, the township was formed in 1824.

That law school, along with four other educational institutions in Newark — Dana College, the Newark Institute of Arts & Sciences, the Seth Boyden School of Business, and the Mercer Beasley School of Law — formed a series of alliances over the years.

The Shins began in 1997 in Albuquerque, New Mexico as a side project for singer-songwriter James Mercer, whose primary band was Flake Music.

Flake Music came to an end around this time leaving Mercer with an opportunity to record, " Nature Bears A Vacuum " a 7 " EP released by Omnibus Records.

Person To Person ventilates the home lives of Johnny Mercer and Joan Collins -- both in Southern California ( Channel 5 at 10:30 ) KQED Summer Music Festival features a live concert by the Capello De Musica ( Channel 9 at 8:30 ).

The film was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Walter Matthau ), Best Film Editing ( Ralph E. Winters ), Best Music, Song ( for Marvin Hamlisch and Johnny Mercer for " Life Is What You Make It ") and Best Sound ( Richard Portman, Jack Solomon ).

The Capitol Records Company was founded by songwriter Johnny Mercer in 1942, with the financial help of fellow songwriter and film producer Buddy DeSylva and the business acumen of Glenn Wallichs ( 1910 – 1971 ), owner of Music City, at the time the biggest record store in Los Angeles.

Winner for the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing ( 1965 ), nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song ( The Sweetheart Tree – Music by Henry Mancini and Lyrics by Johnny Mercer ), Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing, Academy Award for Best Cinematography and Academy Award for Best Film Editing

* 2000 – Johnny Mercer Award / National Academy of Popular Music

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 ).

Music stars Damhnait Doyle, Kevin Fox and Tom Cochrane accompanied Mercer to Camp Julien, where many of the troops live in large tents.

The strike brought the new company to a standstill until Johnny Mercer began his radio show, Johnny Mercer's Music Shop, in June 1943.

Mercer grew substantially between 1982 and 2006 with the establishment of eight colleges and schools: the School of Medicine in 1982, the Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics in 1984, the School of Engineering in 1985, the James and Carolyn McAfee School of Theology in 1994, the Tift College of Education in 1995, the Georgia Baptist College of Nursing in 2001, the College of Continuing and Professional Studies in 2003, and the Townsend School of Music in 2006.

She made her film debut in 1927 in the silent film The Music Master and in 1930 joined Leslie Howard, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Beryl Mercer for the film version of the stage success Outward Bound.

* Graves, Michael P. and Fillingim, David " More than Precious Memories: The Rhetoric of Southern Gospel Music " Mercer University Press, 2004.

1970: " Whistling Away the Dark " Lyrics by Johnny Mercer, Music by Henry Mancini – Darling Lili

1971: " Life Is What You Make It " Lyrics by Johnny Mercer, Music by Marvin Hamlisch – Kotch

* " Blues in the Night "-Lyrics By Johnny Mercer, Music By Harold Arlen

* The 16th Annual New York Cabaret Convention-Mabel Mercer Foundation-" Music From the Movies "-20 October 2005

Recordings in 1940 were made by Kay Kyser and his orchestra ( vocals: Sully Mason & His Playmates ), by Mitchell Ayres and His Fashions In Music ( vocals: Mary Ann Mercer & Tommy Taylor ), and by Hal Kemp and The Smoothies.