Another giant of American popular music that came out of the Big Band/Swing era is Johnny Mercer. Mercer first achieved notoriety and success as a lyricist on collaboration with Hoagy Carmichael, who at the time had already some measure of success with the song “Star Dust”. The two spent a year working on the song “Lazy Bones”, which became an instant hit after its first radio broadcast.
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