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We cannot
leave out composer Harold Arlen and lyricist (& sometime composer) Johnny Mercer. they botyh wrote dozens of great songs and the two of them collaberated on many including One for My Baby, Come Rain or Come Shine and Blues in the Night.
Other Mercer songs include Drinking Again, Empty Tables, Somethin's Gotta Give, Dream, Goody, Goody, I thought About You, Jeepers Creepers, Fools Rush In, When the World Was Young, My Shining Hour, Emily, I Wanna Be Around, Moon River, Days of Wine and Roses, Midnight Sun, I Wonder What Became of Me...to name just a few of the hundreds he wrote. Mercer was one of the foundes of Capitol Records. His songwriting collaberators, in addition to Arlen, include dozens of great (Kern, Koehler, Richard Whiting, Hoagy Carmichael, Harry Warren, Henry Mancini, Jimmy Van Heusen, Arthur Schwartz, Gordon Jenkins and many more.
Arlen wrote Over the Rainbow, Last Night When We Were Young, Get Happy, That Old Black Magic, The Man (Gal) that Got Away, I Had Myself a True Love, Any Place I Hang My Hat is Home, Stormy Weather, Hit the Road to Dreamlanad, Fun to Be Fooled, Lydia, the Tatood Lady, I Love a Parade, Ding, Dong, the Witch is Dead, I've Got the World On a String and...well, you get the idea.
Frank Sinatra loved them both and they all did well by each other.
Ed S.
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