Mercer was born in Savannah, Georgia, where one of his first jobs, aged 10, was sweeping floors at the original 1919 location of Leopold's Ice Cream. Mercer lived on Lincoln Street, a block away from the store's East Gwinnett

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Starting out
Mercer moved to New York in 1928, when he was 19. The music he loved, jazz and blues, was

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Well regarded also as a singer, with a folksy quality, Mercer was a natural for his own songs such as "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive", "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe",

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In 1931, Mercer married Ginger Meehan, a chorus girl, later a seamstress; and in 1940, when he was 30, the Mercers adopted a daughter, Amanda ("Mandy"). In 1960, Mandy married Bob

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• Johnny Mercer Sings (Capitol, 1950)
• Two of a Kind with Bobby Darin (ATCO, 1961)
• Johnny Mercer with Paul Weston's Orchestra 1944 (Hindsight, 1980)

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• Bach, Bob; Mercer, Ginger (1982). Our Huckleberry Friend: The Life, Times, and Lyrics of Johnny Mercer. Lyle Stuart.
• Eskew, Glenn T. (2013). Johnny Mercer: Southern Songwriter for the World. University of Georgia Press.

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Academy Awards
Mercer won four Academy Awards on eighteen nominations for Best Original Song:
• 1946: "

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