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Johnny Mercer was a songwriter, a singer and the original Candy man
Did you know that songwriter Johnny Mercer was a co-founder of Capitol Records in 1942? A year later Mercer signed former Dorsey singer Jo Stafford, and the Pied Pipers, to the label.
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13 of Johnny Mercera s most memorable songs
Johnny Mercer wrote 1,500 songs, some of them among the most recorded in musical history.
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