Editing Johnny Mercer (section)

==Singing style==
Well regarded also as a singer, with a folksy quality, Mercer was a natural for his own songs such as "[[Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive]]", "[[On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe]]", "[[One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)]]", and "[[Lazybones (song)|Lazybones]]". He was considered a first-rate performer of his own work.<ref name="wilk"/>

It has been said that he penned "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)"—one of the great [[torch song|torch laments]] of all times—on a napkin while sitting at the bar at [[P. J. Clarke's]] when Tommy Joyce was the bartender. The next day Mercer called Joyce to apologize for the line "So, set 'em up, Joe," explaining "I couldn't get your name to rhyme."

ATCO Records issued ''[[Two of a Kind (Bobby Darin and Johnny Mercer album)|Two of a Kind]]'' in 1961, a duet album by [[Bobby Darin]] and Johnny Mercer with [[Billy May]] and his Orchestra, produced by [[Ahmet Ertegun]].