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Georgia State University houses and manages the Johnny Mercer Collection that includes Johnny’s personal papers documenting his life and career and also maintain an interactive exhibit about his work.
The Johnny Mercer Collection within Georgia State University Library’s Special Collections and Archives includes draft lyrics and music, correspondence, unpublished autobiography, scripts, photographs, sheet music, sound recordings, awards and artifacts, as well as many additional collections and oral history interviews of colleagues, friends, and fans. The Library encourages researchers, educators, students, and fans of Johnny’s music to access their online resources and to contact them with any requests or questions.
Dive Into the Research
Music Publishers (ASCAP, BMI, SESAC)
Explore these performance-rights organizations’ repertoire databases to determine who controls the copyright to individual songs in the Johnny Mercer catalog.
Music CDs
A variety of Johnny Mercer songs have been released on CD, including vocal performances by Mercer himself and by a who’s who of Great American Songbook...
The Johnny Mercer Centennial Sheet Music Collection
Songbook that commemorates the centennial of his birth with piano/vocal sheet music arrangements for 46 of his most famous and best-loved classics