Johnny Mercer – Accentuate The Positive (2024) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Johnny Mercer – Accentuate The Positive (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:26 minutes | 363 MB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Jazz
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Arlen and Mercer wrote the song Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive for the film Here Come the Waves (1944, directed by Mark Sandrich), starring Bing Crosby and Betty Hutton. Bing Crosby and Sonny Tufts introduced the song. Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive received an Oscar nomination in the Best Song category in 1946.

The refrain of the song is similar: “You should do the positive ak-zen-tu-ie-ren, the negative e-li-mi-never-ren, and cling to the affirmative, do not mess with Mister in between.“Johnny Mercer’s recording with The Pied Pipers and the Paul Weston Orchestra (Capitol 402) entered the Billboard charts in early 1945; it was on the charts for 13 weeks, where it reached #2. The version by Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters (#2) was equally successful Furthermore, the song was recorded by Charlie Spivak, Mildred Bailey and the Artie Shaw Orchestra (Victor 1612, #5) in 1944, followed by the versions by Kay Kyser, Dinah Washington and in England by Johnny Green in 1945. In the following years, numerous cover versions were created in the field of jazz and popular music, including by Louis Armstrong, Jan Garber, Ray McKinley, Duke Ellington, Peggy lee, Tommy Dorsey, Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald (The Harold Arlen Songbook, 1960), in later years the song was also covered by Bud Shank, Mel Tormé, Phil Wilson, Jay Leonhart, Roland Hanna/Carrie Smith (I’ we Got a Right to Sing the Blues: Songs of Harold Arlen, 2002), performed by Al Jarreau and Annie Ross. Paul McCartney released his version in 2012 on the album Kisses on the Bottom. The discographer Tom Lord: lists 93 versions of the song.

Tracklist:

1-1. Johnny Mercer – Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive (Digitally Restored) (02:45)
1-2. Johnny Mercer – One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) (Digitally Restored) (03:09)
1-3. Johnny Mercer – On The Atchison, Topeka & The Santa Fe (Digitally Restored) (03:02)
1-4. Johnny Mercer – My Sugar Is So Refined (Digitally Restored) (02:42)
1-5. Johnny Mercer – G.I. Jive (Digitally Restored) (03:24)
1-6. Johnny Mercer – The Glow Worm (Digitally Restored) (02:53)
1-7. Johnny Mercer – Personality (Digitally Restored) (02:47)
1-8. Johnny Mercer – Alexander’s Ragtime Band (Digitally Restored) (02:31)
1-9. Johnny Mercer – Sugar Blues (Digitally Restored) (02:51)
1-10. Johnny Mercer – I Lost My Sugar In Salt Lake City (Digitally Restored) (03:11)
1-11. Johnny Mercer – Candy (Digitally Restored) (03:11)
1-12. Johnny Mercer – Strip Polka (Digitally Restored) (02:56)

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