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==Songs== {{See also-text|[[List of songs with lyrics by Johnny Mercer]]}} {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! scope="col" | Date ! scope="col" | Song title ! scope="col" | Music by ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes |- | 1933 || "[[Lazybones (song)|Lazy Bones]]" || [[Hoagy Carmichael]] || |- | 1934 || "[[P.S. I Love You (1934 song)|P.S. I Love You]]" || [[Gordon Jenkins]] || |- | 1936 || "[[Goody Goody]]" || [[Matty Malneck]] || |- | 1936 || "[[I'm an Old Cowhand from the Rio Grande]]" || Johnny Mercer || |- | 1937 || "[[Hooray for Hollywood]]" || [[Richard A. Whiting]] || |- | 1937 || "[[Too Marvelous for Words]]" || [[Richard A. Whiting]] || |- | 1938 || "[[Jeepers Creepers (song)|Jeepers, Creepers!]]" || [[Harry Warren]] || Film - [[Going Places (1938 film)|Going Places]] Nominated Best Original Song |- | 1938 || "[[You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby]]" || [[Harry Warren]] || |- | 1938 || "[[When a Woman Loves a Man (1938 song)|When a Woman Loves a Man]]" || [[Bernie Hanighen]], [[Gordon Jenkins]] || |- | 1939 || "[[And the Angels Sing]]" || [[Ziggy Elman]] || |- | 1939 || "[[Cuckoo in the Clock]]" || [[Walter Donaldson (songwriter)|Walter Donaldson]] || |- | 1939 || "[[Day In, Day Out (1939 song)|Day In, Day Out]]" || [[Rube Bloom]] || |- | 1939 || "[[I Thought About You]]" || [[Jimmy Van Heusen]] || |- | 1939 || "Wings Over the Navy" || [[Harry Warren]] || |- | 1940 || "Love of My Life" || [[Artie Shaw]] || Film - [[Second Chorus]] Nominated Best Original Song |- | 1940 || "I'd Know You Anywhere" || [[Jimmy McHugh]] || Film - [[You'll Find Out]] Nominated Best Original Song |- | 1940 || "[[Fools Rush In (song)|Fools Rush In]]" || [[Rube Bloom]] || |- | 1941 || "[[Blues in the Night]]" || [[Harold Arlen]] ||[[Blues in the Night (film)|Blues in the Night]] Nominated Best Original Song |- | 1941 || "[[I Remember You (1941 song)|I Remember You]]" || [[Victor Schertzinger]] || |- | 1941 || "[[Tangerine (1941 song)|Tangerine]]" || [[Victor Schertzinger]] || |- | 1941 || "[[This Time the Dream's on Me]]" || [[Harold Arlen]] || |- | 1942 || "[[Moon Dreams]]" || [[Chummy MacGregor]] (co-writer) || |- | 1942 || "Dearly Beloved" || [[Jerome Kern]] ||[[You Were Never Lovelier]] Nominated Best Original Song |- | 1942 || "[[Hit the Road to Dreamland]]" || [[Harold Arlen]] || |- | 1942 || "[[I'm Old Fashioned]]" || [[Jerome Kern]] || |- | 1942 || "[[Skylark (song)|Skylark]]" || [[Hoagy Carmichael]] || |- | 1942 || "[[That Old Black Magic (song)|That Old Black Magic]]" || [[Harold Arlen]] ||[[Star Spangled Rhythm]] Nominated Best Original Song |- | 1942 || "[[Trav'lin' Light (song)|Trav'lin' Light]]" || [[Jimmy Mundy]], [[Trummy Young]] || |- | 1943 || "[[Dream (1944 song)|Dream]]" || Johnny Mercer || |- | 1943 || "[[My Shining Hour]]" || [[Harold Arlen]] ||[[The Sky's the Limit (1943 film)|The Sky's the Limit]] Nominated Best Original Song |- | 1943 || "[[One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)]]" || [[Harold Arlen]] || |- | 1944 || "[[Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive]]" || [[Harold Arlen]] ||[[Here Come the Waves]] Nominated Best Original Song |- | 1944 || "[[G.I. Jive]]" || Johnny Mercer || |- | 1944 || "[[How Little We Know]]" || [[Hoagy Carmichael]] || For the film ''[[To Have and Have Not (film)|To Have and Have Not]]'' |- | 1945 || "[[Laura (1945 song)|Laura]]" || [[David Raksin]] || |- | 1945 || "[[Out of This World (Johnny Mercer song)|Out of This World]]" || [[Harold Arlen]] || |- | 1946 || "[[Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home]]" || [[Harold Arlen]] || |- | 1946 || "I Had Myself a True Love" || [[Harold Arlen]] || |- | 1946 || "[[Come Rain or Come Shine (song)|Come Rain or Come Shine]]" || [[Harold Arlen]] || |- | 1946 || "[[On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe]]" || [[Harry Warren]] || For the film ''[[The Harvey Girls]]'' '''WON Oscar''' |- | 1946 || "Two Hearts Are Better Than One" || [[Jerome Kern]] || For the film ''[[Centennial Summer]]'' |- | 1947 || "[[Autumn Leaves (1945 song)|Autumn Leaves]]" || [[Joseph Kosma]], orig. French lyrics by [[Jacques Prévert]] || |- | 1949 || "[[Early Autumn (song)|Early Autumn]]" || [[Ralph Burns]], [[Woody Herman]] || |- | 1949 || "Truly" || Antone Iavello || |- | 1951 || "[[In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening]]" || [[Hoagy Carmichael]] || For the film ''[[Here Comes the Groom (1951 film)|Here Comes the Groom]]'' '''WON Oscar''' |- | 1952 || "I Wanna Be a Dancing Man" || [[Harry Warren]] || |- | 1952 || "[[The Glow-Worm]]" || [[Paul Lincke]] || |- | 1953 || "[[Satin Doll]]" || [[Duke Ellington]], [[Billy Strayhorn]] || |- | 1954 || "[[Midnight Sun (Lionel Hampton and Sonny Burke song)|Midnight Sun]]" || [[Lionel Hampton]], [[Sonny Burke]] || |- | 1955 || "[[Something's Gotta Give (Johnny Mercer song)|Something's Gotta Give]]" || Johnny Mercer ||[[Daddy Long Legs (1955 film)|Daddy Long Legs]] Nominated Best Original Song |- | 1956 || "I'm Past My Prime" || [[Gene de Paul]] || |- | 1956 || "[[Jubilation T. Cornpone]]"|| [[Gene de Paul]] || |- | 1956 || "Bernardine" || Johnny Mercer || For the film ''[[Bernardine (film)|Bernardine]]'' |- | 1956 || "Technique" || Johnny Mercer || For the film ''[[Bernardine (film)|Bernardine]]'' |- | 1959 || "[[I Wanna Be Around]]" || Johnny Mercer, Sadie Vimmerstedt || |- | 1960 || "[[The Facts of Life (film)|The Facts of Life]]" || Johnny Mercer||[[The Facts of Life (film)|The Facts of Life]] Nominated Best Original Song |- | 1961 || "[[Moon River]]" || [[Henry Mancini]] || For the film ''[[Breakfast at Tiffany's (film)|Breakfast at Tiffany's]]'' '''WON Oscar''' |- | 1962 || "[[Days of Wine and Roses (song)|Days of Wine and Roses]]" || [[Henry Mancini]] || For the film ''[[Days of Wine and Roses (film)|Days of Wine and Roses]]'' '''WON Oscar''' |- | 1962 || "[[Drinking Again]]" || Doris Tauber || |- | 1963 || "[[Charade (1963 song)|Charade]]" || [[Henry Mancini]] || For the film ''[[Charade (1963 film)|Charade]]'' Nominated Best Original Song |- | 1963 || "[[Meglio Stasera]]" ("It Had Better Be Tonight") || [[Henry Mancini]] || For the film ''[[The Pink Panther (1963 film)|The Pink Panther]]'' |- | 1964 || "[[Emily (Johnny Mandel and Johnny Mercer song)|Emily]]" || [[Johnny Mandel]] || |- | 1964 || "Lorna" || [[Mort Lindsey]] || |- | 1965 || "The Sweetheart Tree" || [[Henry Mancini]] ||[[The Great Race]] Nominated Best Original Song |- | 1964 || "Talk to Me, Baby" || [[Bobby Dolan]] || For the Broadway musical comedy ''[[Foxy (musical)|Foxy]]'' |- | 1965 || "[[Summer Wind]]" || Henry Mayer || |- | 1970 || "Whistling Away the Dark" || [[Henry Mancini]] || For the film ''[[Darling Lili]]'' Nominated Best Original Song & Best Original Song Score |- | 1971 || "Life Is What You Make It" || [[Marvin Hamlisch]] || For the film ''[[Kotch]]'' Nominated Best Original Song |- | 1973 || "The Phony King of England" || Johnny Mercer || For the [[Disney]] film ''[[Robin Hood (1973 film)|Robin Hood]]'' |- | 1973 || "The Long Goodbye" || [[John Williams]] || For the film ''[[The Long Goodbye (film)]]'' |}
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