Who wrote "Accentuate the Positive"??

[RL Smith 1]

I've been surfing all over the Web and FTP sites trying, unsucessfully,
to answer what seemed to be simple question. The question being:

Who wrote the song "Accentuate The Positive". All my searching has
yielded nothing...I thought it was an Ellington tune, but can't find info
on that either.

This clearly seems to be the place to find someone with an answer.

Thanks in advance

RLS

[Leo Scanlon]

Johnny Mercer wrote it.

Leo

RL Smith 1 (rlsm...@aol.com) wrote:
: I've been surfing all over the Web and FTP sites trying, unsucessfully,

[Thomas Richards]

RL Smith 1 (rlsm...@aol.com) wrote:
: Who wrote the song "Accentuate The Positive". All my searching has
: yielded nothing...I thought it was an Ellington tune, but can't find info
: on that either.

Could have been an Ellington tune, I don't know; but according to sheet
music I have here before me, it was written by Harold Arlen, with Lyrics
by Johnny Mercer.

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Thomas Richards -- Fredericton Area Network

[2 jazz pagans]

In <4oh160$i...@newsbf02.news.aol.com> rlsm...@aol.com (RL Smith 1)
writes:

>
>I've been surfing all over the Web and FTP sites trying,
unsucessfully,
>to answer what seemed to be simple question. The question being:
>

>Who wrote the song "Accentuate The Positive". All my searching has
>yielded nothing...I thought it was an Ellington tune, but can't find
info
>on that either.
>

>This clearly seems to be the place to find someone with an answer.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>RLS

I imagine you've already been flooded with answers to this, but the
music was written by Harold Arlen and the lyric by Johnny Mercer. Not
to be confused with another felicitous Mercer lyric, "On the Atcheson,
Topeka, and the Santa Fe," for which the music was written by Harry
Warren.

- JRB

[Jack Woker]

In <4oh160$i...@newsbf02.news.aol.com> rlsm...@aol.com (RL Smith 1)
writes:
>
>I've been surfing all over the Web and FTP sites trying,

>unsuccessfully, to answer what seemed to be simple question. The

>question being:
>Who wrote the song "Accentuate The Positive". All my searching has
>yielded nothing...I thought it was an Ellington tune, but can't find
>info on that either.
>

>RLS
It was written by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer, and first appeared
in the film "Here Come the Waves" in 1944.
jack

[Stephen R. Low]

RL Smith 1 wrote:

> Who wrote the song "Accentuate The Positive".
>

>Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen

[BIRDBUD]

Johnny Mercer, of course.
Philesh bir...@aol.com

[Thomas F Brown]

In article <4oh160$i...@newsbf02.news.aol.com> rlsm...@aol.com (RL Smith 1) writ
es:
>

>Who wrote the song "Accentuate The Positive". All my searching has
>yielded nothing...I thought it was an Ellington tune, but can't find info
>on that either.

I thought it was Harold Arlen.

[Marshal711]

Johnny Mercer wrote "Accentuate the Positive."
Marshall Rosenthal
Evanston, Illinois

[2 jazz pagans]

In <4orriv$r...@newsbf02.news.aol.com> marsh...@aol.com (Marshal711)
writes:

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>Johnny Mercer wrote "Accentuate the Positive."
>Marshall Rosenthal
>Evanston, Illinois

Since this is said with such authority, it needs amplification, if not
correction. Johnny Mercer wrote the *lyric* to "Ac-cent-tchu-ate the
Positive," and Harold Arlen wrote the music. Arlen is one of our great
songwriters ("Over the Rainbow," "Ill Wind," "Stormy Weather," etc.),
and he and Mercer collaborated on a number of great songs, including
"Blues in the Night" and "One for My Baby and One More for the Road."

- JRB