Popular music
Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:
"Mostly Mercer" concert photographs collection
On September 23, 1994 Georgia State University held the "Mostly Mercer" concert and reception, featuring Margaret Whiting. The collection consists of photographs of the performers and others.
Music Printed collection: Ephemera
The Music Printed collection: Ephemera is an amalgmation of materials on a variety of topics relating to music and popular culture.
Nick Mamalakis papers
Ober family papers
The Ober family lived near Johnny Mercer and his family on Lido Isle (Newport Beach, California) in the 1950s and 1960s. The two families became close friends. The collection contains correspondence, photographs, and other printed and manuscript materials, documenting the long relationship between the families, as well as collected material relating to Johnny Mercer, 1976-2000.
Philip Furia collection
The Philip Furia collection contains research materials used to create the Johnny Mercer biography, Skylark: The Life and Time of Johnny Mercer. It includes cassette tapes of interviews, transcriptions of interviews, and photographs. The majority of materials date from 2000 to 2002.
Richard A. Whiting collection
Richard A. Whiting was a prominent music composer for Hollywood and Broadway productions from the 1920s-1930s. The Richard A. Whiting Collection, 1896-2006, contains files related to Whiting's life and career as a musical composer including correspondence, photographs, periodicals and sheet music.
Robert Kimball collection
Rose Marie papers
Rose Marie (1923-2017) was a successful singer, actress, and comedienne whose career spanned more than seven decades of evolving popular entertainment, from radio to theater to film to television. The materials in this collection document the unpublished artifacts of such a career, consisting mainly of manuscript (or draft) sheet music and noncommercial audio recordings.
Sadie Vimmerstedt papers
Sadie Vimmerstedt, who was a resident of Youngstown, Ohio, wrote a letter to Johnny Mercer in February of 1957 suggesting that Mercer write a song entitled "When Somebody Breaks Your Heart." Mercer wrote the song, ultimately sharing authorship with her on a 50/50 basis. Mrs. Vimmerstedt's collection includes Mercer's first letter to her, a few Christmas cards from Mercer, and photographs taken at the 1963 Grammy Awards banquet.
Steve Allen collection
Steve Allen (1921-2000) was a well-known author, pianist, comedian, composer, and actor. He was an admirer of Johnny Mercer's lyrics. After Mercer's death, his widow Ginger Mercer and Bill Harbach encouraged Allen to write a song to a title Mercer had created, "Your Wife Is the Love of My Life." This collection consists of a lead sheet and typed lyrics for Allen's "Your Wife Is the Love of My Life."
Vern Hansen papers
Windell M. Smith papers
Windell M. Smith grew up in Savannah, Georgia during the 1960s. He later became a Special Education teacher in the Savannah area. This collection consists of a single sheet of lyrics that Johnny Mercer provided to Savannah Boy Scout Troop 60 for a 1960 trip to the Boy Scout Jamboree in Colorado Springs, Colorado.