{"id":1877,"date":"2009-11-18T00:41:25","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T08:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1877"},"modified":"2009-11-18T00:41:25","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T08:41:25","slug":"other_places_mercer_mercer_mer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2009\/11\/other_places_mercer_mercer_mer\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Matters:  Mercer, Mercer, Mercer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2009\/11\/Johnny Mercer-thumb-120x115-11484.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thumbnail image for Johnny Mercer.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2009\/11\/Johnny Mercer-thumb-120x115-11484-thumb-120x115-11485.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"115\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a>Today is the 100th anniversary of Johnny Mercer&#8217;s birth. To celebrate it, Dave Frishberg and Rebecca Kilgore will be the guests on National Public Radio&#8217;s <em>Fresh Air<\/em> with Terry Gross. See your local listings for station and time, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/stations\/schedule\/index.php?prgId=13\" target=\"_blank\">or check here<\/a>. If you live somewhere other than the United States or if your town doesn&#8217;t have an NPR station, the network will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/rundowns\/rundown.php?prgId=13\" target=\"_blank\">archive the program here<\/a>, usually late the day of the broadcast.<br \/>\nWe may presume that, whatever Ms. Gross has up her sleeve, Becky and Dave will accentuate the positive, among other things.  I couldn&#8217;t find a clip of Mercer singing that famous song of his, but that&#8217;s all right because we can enjoy him with Bing Crosby in a recently unearthed television performance. It&#8217;s not jazz, except in the sense that these guys were marinated in jazz from the 1920s on. But, hey, Mercer mentions Bix.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"440\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vw_qvxrtaFE&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vw_qvxrtaFE&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\"><\/object><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 100th anniversary of Johnny Mercer&#8217;s birth. To celebrate it, Dave Frishberg and Rebecca Kilgore will be the guests on National Public Radio&#8217;s Fresh Air with Terry Gross. See your local listings for station and time, or check here. If you live somewhere other than the United States or if your town doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}