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Leo Green focusses on Johnny Mercer. As well as launching the iconic Capitol Records label Mercer was an accomplaished actor, successful singer and a poet who gave us some of the greatest, saddest and most romantic lyrics in the Great American Songbook.

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Wed 30 Aug 2017 23:00
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Music Played

  • Nat King Cole

    Day In - Day Out

    • Too Marvelous For Words: Capitol Sings Johnny Mercer.
    • EMI Records Limited.
    • 7.

  • Johnny Mercer

    Mercer Medley 1

    • An Evening With Johnny Mercer.
    • DRG Records.

  • Johnny Mercer

    Out of Breath And Scared To Death Of You

    • An Evening With Johnny Mercer.
    • DRG Records.

  • k.d. lang

    Skylark

    • Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil.
    • MALPASO.
    • 1.

  • Ella Fitzgerald

    Too Marvellous for Words

    • Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Johnny Mercer Songbook.
    • Verve.

  • Doris Day

    Hooray For Hollywood

    • Great American Songwriters, Volume 2: Johnny Mercer.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
    • 16.

  • Bobby Darin

    You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby

    • Great American Songwriters, Volume 2: Johnny Mercer.
    • Rhino/WB.
    • 20.

  • Diana Krall & The Ray Brown Trio

    I Thought About You

    • Some Of My Best Friends Are Singers.
    • Tel Arc Jazz.

  • Julie London

    Blues In The Night

    • The Very Best Of Julie London CD1.
    • EMI Records Limited.
    • 23.

  • Tom Jones

    That Old Black Magic

    • When I Fall In Love.
    • Spectrum.

  • Frank Sinatra

    One For My Baby

    • The Capitol Years CD3.
    • Capitol.
    • 4.

  • Frank Sinatra

    Something's Gotta Give

    • The Great Films And Shows Volume 3.
    • EMI Records Limited.
    • 1.

  • Johnny Mercer

    Mercer Medley 2

    • An Evening With Johnny Mercer.
    • DRG.

  • Rod Stewart

    Moon River

    • Fly Me To The Moon... The Great American Songbook Volume 5.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
    • 12.

  • Matt Monro

    Days Of Wine And Roses

    • From Matt With Love.
    • EMI Records Limited.
    • 4.

  • Aretha Franklin

    Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive

    • The Answers.
    • Upon My Soul.

Broadcasts

  • Tue 2 Feb 2016 22:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2
  • Wed 30 Aug 2017 23:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2