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We sat watching the documentary on Turner Classic Movies: “The Dream’s On Me.” The “dreamer” was Johnny Mercer, the songwriter whose name has cropped up time and time again in my life whenever I found a song I really loved.
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We sat there, terrified to realize how worthy a fragment of our lives this Southern gentleman had been. “Did he write THAT!” “My gosh! Was THAT his too? ” “Wow! I learned ‘Jeepers creepers’ in the fourth grade!”
“Lazybones” and “Day In and Day Out,” “I’m An Archaic Cowhand from the Rio Grande” and “That Passe Dusky Magic”–all by the same writer? “Approach Rain or Arrive Shine” and “Autumn Leaves”?
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The documentary features enormous clips by the best singers of the 20th century, vocalizing or playing with Mercer or while he listens: Bing Crosby, the Mills Brothers, Andy Williams, Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland (found out something about her we didn’t know!), Tony Bennett, Nat “King” Cole–on and on.
The documentary follows Mercer’s career into the Seventies, when music trends changed and his kind of ballad passed from popularity, and when I no longer learned the words of dozens of songs. More than any other lyricist in the world, Johnny Mercer was the man who gave my generation its care for songs. What a debt we owe him! His tombstone uses yet another of his unforgettable phrases: “And the Angels Relate.” Indeed they did.
Clint Eastwood gives us a loving and carefully produced gape at one the upright musical geniuses of the 20th Century. This is as noteworthy a celebration of Johnny Mercer’s life and music as it is a biography. It plays out like a catalogue of all the expansive songs, performers and writers that we grew up with. Mr Mercer seems to have had some involvement in virtually every facet of “The Large American Songbook” and he excelled in all of them. Most of all this is an enormously delicious and racy 2 hours that I could explore over and over again. That’s what makes this DVD worth buying. You’ll want to hold it off the shelf and play it regularly.