When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.

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.

His second wife, Lillian, was the mother of John H. Mercer.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.

During the summers, while he was still in school, Mercer worked for his father's firm as a messenger boy.

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.

The lyric, Mercer remembers, was tailored to fit the unusual melody.

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.

Mercer himself could not tell how long it was before B'dikkat came back.

Only the memory of previous hurt, bewilderment and perplexity made him sure that if he did not ask B'dikkat when he, Mercer, was happy, the answer would no longer be available when he needed it.

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:

The stage musical, with music and lyrics by Gene de Paul and Johnny Mercer, was adapted into a Technicolor motion picture at Paramount in 1959 by producer Norman Panama and director Melvin Frank, with a score by Nelson Riddle.

Mick Mercer, author, noted music journalist, and world's leading historian of Goth music stated, of Kimveer Gill, that he was " not a Goth.

" Mercer emphasized that he was not blaming heavy metal music for Gill's actions and added " It doesn't matter actually what music he liked.

In this same period, on the initiative of the Virginian politician Charles F. Mercer and the Presbyterian minister Robert Finley from New Jersey, in 1816 the American Colonization Society ( ACS ) was established in Washington D. C. by American politicians, senators and religious leaders from a variety of orientations.

In 2010, Leipzig was ranked 68th in the world as a livable city, by consulting firm Mercer in their quality of life survey.

Luanda was ranked the most expensive city to live in for expatriates by Mercer, in 2011, but was surpassed by Tokyo in 2012.

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.

Ellington was joined in New York City by his wife, Edna Thompson, and son Mercer in the late twenties, but the couple soon permanently separated.

Hugh Weedon Mercer, a Confederate general, was his close relative.

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 ).

In June 1834 banker Charles Swanston advised his client George Mercer that land was scarce in Van Diemen's Land and he should invest across Bass Strait.

Andre Sennwald, who reviewed the film for The New York Times upon its April 1931 release, called it " just another gangster film at the Strand, weaker than most in its story, stronger than most in its acting, and, like most, maintaining a certain level of interest through the last burst of machine-gun fire "; Woods and Cagney give " remarkably lifelike portraits of young hoodlums " and " Beryl Mercer as Tom's mother, Robert Emmett O ' Connor as a gang chief, and Donald Cook as Tom's brother, do splendidly.

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.

John Mercer, Robert's brother was also one of the local bar pilots, and was appointed sometime in September 1880.

Mercer Island in Lake Washington and Mercer Street in Seattle are named not for Asa, but rather his brother Thomas .< ref name = ammons >

With the line-up of Mercer, Million, Vinny DeNunzio's brother Keith DeNunzio on bass and Anton Fier on drums, the Feelies released their first single, " Fa Cé-La ", on Rough Trade Records in 1979.

A documentary about Adams, The Gentleman's Choice, was released on December 16, 2008 by former WCCW promoter Mickey Grant, and featured interviews from many of Adams ' friends and family, including his brother Neil, Bill Mercer, referee David Manning, Kevin Von Erich, Jean Clarke ( billed as Jeanie Adams in the documentary ), his widow Karen, and Gary Hart.

Father Fritz and brother Kevin Von Erich, Adams, Lowrance, Bill Mercer, Bronko Lubich, David Manning, Gary Hart, and bodyguard Bill Colville also attended.

True anthropology began with a Government department: the Geological Survey of Canada, and George Mercer Dawson ( director in 1895 ).

He collaborated with many of the leading librettists and lyricists of his era, including George Grossmith Jr., Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Dorothy Fields, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin and E. Y. Harburg.

* Ian Mercer as DC George Giggs: a married man with children but a bit of a womaniser.

* George Mercer, rapist

* Hugh Mercer, physician, brigadier general in the Continental Army and a close friend to George Washington

In a Talking to Americans segment on the Canadian mock television news show This Hour Has 22 Minutes during the 2000 American election, comedian Rick Mercer posed as a reporter and asked several people ( including then-Texas governor George W. Bush ) what they thought of " Prime Minister Jean Poutine " and his endorsement of Bush for president.

Classic pop embraces the song output of the Broadway and Hollywood show tune writers from approximately World War I to the 1950s, such as Irving Berlin, Victor Herbert, Harry Warren, Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Johnny Mercer, Dorothy Fields, Hoagy Carmichael, Cole Porter and a host of others.

In 2004 George W. Bush won Mercer County with 51 % of the vote.

" Cantonment Brooke " was established on January 10, 1824, by Colonels George Mercer Brooke and James Gadsden at the mouth of the Hillsborough River on Tampa Bay, at the site of the Tampa Convention Center in Downtown Tampa.

In the 2004 U. S. Presidential election, John Kerry carried Mercer County by a 23. 4 % margin over George W. Bush, with Kerry carrying the state by 6. 7 % over Bush.

Some notable persons either born in or who resided in Columbia County include: Oliver Hardy ( comedian, born in Harlem ), Paul Hamilton Hayne ( poet and author ), Henry Louis Benning ( Confederate general for whom Fort Benning is named ), William Few, Abraham Baldwin, George Walton, George W. Crawford, William H. Crawford ( presidential candidate in 1824 ), Thomas Watson ( populist leader and Georgia senator born in Thomson when it was still in Columbia County ), George McDuffie ( South Carolina governor and senator in the early 19th century ), Jesse Mercer ( a long-time preacher in the county for whom Mercer University is named ).

In 1777, during the American Revolutionary War, the Continental Army under command of George Washington constructed two forts on the Delaware River to block the approach to Philadelphia: Fort Mifflin on the Pennsylvania side and Fort Mercer on the New Jersey side in what is now National Park.

George W Lightfoot, during 1930, requested a bridge between Mercer Island and Seattle ; the Lacey V Murrow Memorial Bridge, second longest floating bridge on Earth, was built and opened during 1940.

* 1964: Ronald Kane, Stanley Martell, John Moberg, Peter Almgren, Mildred Mercer, George McConnell, Randall Bump

In the 1930s Mercer was known to be frequented by the Capone brothers, Al, Ralph, George, and Matte.

Evander Holyfield holds other notable victories over fighters such as ; George Foreman, Larry Holmes, Riddick Bowe, Ray Mercer, Mike Tyson ( x2 ), Michael Moorer, John Ruiz, Michael Dokes and Hasim Rahman.

Lieutenant Colonel George Mercer led an additional 500 men of the Virginia Regiment by a different route.