Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
"Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" is a popular song which was published in 1944. The music was written by Harold Arlen and the lyrics by Johnny Mercer.The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 18th Academy Awards in 1945 after being used in the film Here Come the Waves.
Paul Lincke, the original German lyrics by Heinz Bolten-Backers, English lyrics by Johnny Mercer The Mills Brothers 3 weeks at No. 1 in 1952 (Billboard charts) 1936 Goody Goody: Matty Malneck: Frankie Lymon (#20 in the US and No. 24 in the UK 1943 Hit the Road to Dreamland: Harold Arlen 1937 Hooray for Hollywood: Richard A. Whiting: 1941 I ...
The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer was published by Knopf [48] in October 2009. The Complete Lyrics contains the texts to nearly 1,500 of his lyrics, several hundred of them appearing in print for the first time. In November 2009, a bronze statue of Mercer was unveiled in Ellis Square in Savannah, Georgia, his hometown and birthplace. It was ...
"You've got to accentuate the positiveEliminate the negativeAnd latch on to the affirmativeDon't mess with Mister In-Between."-- "Accentuate the Positive," Johnny Mercer and the Pied Pipers, 1944 ...
All lyrics by Mercer. Song Music "Dream" Mercer "Lazybones" Hoagy Carmichael ... "Accentuate the Positive" Arlen "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening"
"It Was Written in the Stars" – lyrics by Leo Robin "I've Got the World on a String" – lyrics by Ted Koehler "It's Only a Paper Moon" – lyrics by E. Y. Harburg, Billy Rose "I Wonder What Became of Me" – lyrics by Johnny Mercer "Last Night When We Were Young" – lyrics by E. Y. Harburg "Let's Fall in Love" – lyrics by Ted Koehler
Short for positive music, posi music is categorized by its intention to have a positive effect on the listener. Musicians who write and perform posi music profess a desire for their music to unite and inspire their audience and make them feel better. An example is "Accentuate The Positive" written by Johnny Mercer and made famous by Bing Crosby ...
Tommy LiPuma – producer; Allan Sides – engineer (Ocean Way Studio) (tracks 1, 3–5, 7, 9) Elliot Scheiner – engineer (Power Station) (tracks 2, 8) Additional Engineer – Roy Hendrickson