Picture This Playlist 124: Radiothon 2026 (Johnny Mercer III)

(This program originally aired on the best commercial free radio in Southern New England, WRIU Kingston, 90.3 FM streaming at wriu.org) on Sunday, April 12, at 6 PM)

Baseball Theme from A Boy Named Charlie Brown, composed by Vince Guaraldi, performed by the Vince Guaraldi Trio

She’s the Girlfriend of the Whirling Dervish from Garden of the Moon, composed by Al Dubin, Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer, performed by Susannah McCorkle

I’m Building Up to an Awful Letdown, written by Fred Astaire and Johnny Mercer, performed by Fred Astaire

Lazy Bones, from the Hoagy Carmichael “soundie” of the same name, composed by Carmichael and Johnny Mercer, performed by Leon Redbone

Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive from Here Come the Waves, composed by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer, performed by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters

In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening from Here Comes the Groom, written by Hoagy Carmichael and Johnny Mercer, performed by Bing Crosby and Jane Wyman

On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, from The Harvey Girls, written by Harry warren and Johnny Mercer, performed by Bing Crosby and Jane Wyman with the Merry Macs

I’m an Old Cowhand From the Rio Grande from Rhythm on the Range, composed by Johnny Mercer, performed by Bing Crosby and Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra

I’m an Old Cowhand from the Rio Grande (again) from Strike It Rich, performed by Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks

Jeepers Creepers from Going Places, composed by Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer, performed by Louis Armstrong

You Were Never Lovelier from You Were Never Lovelier, music by Jerome Kern, lyrics by Johnny Mercer, performed by Fred Astaire

Too Marvelous for Words from Ready, Willing and Able, composed by Richard Whiting and Johnny Mercer, performed by Doris Day

Laura from Laura, composed by David Raskin, lyrics by Johnny Mercer, performed by Spike Jones and his City Slickers

I Remember You from The Fleet’s In, composed by Victor Schertzinger, lyrics by Johnny Mercer, performed by Frank Ifeld

One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) from The Sky’s the Limit, composed by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer, performed by Bette Midler and the Tonight Show Band

Eleanor Rigby from Dr. Dementos’s Delights, composed by Lennon and McCartney, performed by Doodles Weaver

Two of a Kind from Two of a Kind, composed by Johnny Mercer and Bobby Darin, performed by Mercer and Darin

Somethin’s Gotta Give from Daddy Long Legs, composed by Johnny Mercer, performed by Fred Astaire

Blues in the Night from Blues in the Night, composed by Arlen and Mercer, performed by by Woody Herman and his Orchestra

From Seven Brides for Seven Brothers: all songs composed by Gene DePaul and Johnny Mercer

Main Title, performed by Adolph Duetsch and the MGM Studio Orchestra

Bless Your Beautiful Hide, performed by Howard Keel

When You’re in Love, performed by Stanley Donen

The Square of the Hypotenuese from Merry Andrew, composed by Saul Chaplin and Johnny Mercer, performed by Danny Kaye

That Old Black Magic from Bus Stop, composed by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer, performed by Marilyn Monroe-originally composed for Star Spangled Rhythm

I Want to Be Around To Pick Up the Pieces from I Want to Be Around, composed by Johnny Mercer and Sadie Vimmerstedt, performed by Tony Bennett