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LOS ANGELES - PALM SPRINGS AREAS
BARBARA BRUSSELL TAKES "MERCER, MERCER ME!" TO THE GARDENIA
Barbara Brussell brings her acclaimed show "Mercer, Mercer Me!" (Songs
by Johnny Mercer & Other Huckleberry Friends) to Los Angeles and THE
GARDENIA (7066 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood, CA - 323-467-7444
- http://www.cabaretwest.org/gardenia.htm
) on Wednesday & Thursday, February 7th & 8th, both shows at 9:00 pm.
The show is actually in two parts. The first part is about Johnny Mercer,
the man, his songs and his influences. The second part, "The Other Huckleberry
Friends," are contemporary songwriters, some of whom have been influenced
by him.
For the Los Angeles performances, Barbara is joined
by NYC-based bassist/singer/songwriter Ritt Henn, plus LA based Babbie
Green & John Boswell and Mark Miller and a special appearance Wednesday
night byTony DeSare.
Johnny Mercer (1909-1976) was a leading lyricist from
the 30s into the 60s. His credits include more than one thousand
songs. He collaborated with such giants as Hoagy Carmichael ("Skylark"),
Harry Warren ("Jeepers Creepers,""On the Atchison, Topeka and the
Santa Fe") Jerome Kern ("I'm Old Fashioned"), Harold Arlen ("Come
Rain or Come Shine"), Henry Mancini ("Moon River"), Richard Whiting
("Hooray For Hollywood!") and Arthur Schwartz. Standards and samples
are included from the traditional Broadway musicals: St. Louis Woman,
Li'l Abner, and MGM movie musicals, The Harvey Girls, You Were Never
Lovelier, and more.
He was well regarded among his peers as a successful
songwriter and an engagingly distinctive vocalist.Born and raised
in the South, Mercer felt that being a native of Savannah, Georgia
was the most significant factor in who he was as a man and as a lyricist.
Nominated for eighteen Academy Awards, he was the first songwriter
to win four: "Moon River," "Days of Wine and Roses," "In the Cool,
Cool, Cool of the Evening," and "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa
Fe."
Mercer helped found Capitol Records where he discovered
many singers, including Peggy Lee, Nat King Cole, Margaret Whiting,
Jo Stafford and Blossom Dearie. Through his intense love affair with
Judy Garland, she became his muse, and inspired some of his most heartbreaking
lyrics.
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