Johnny Mercer
is the name of a songwriter:
if you listen to people who know a lot about American popular music, you will hear them mention Johnny Mercer.
(John Eaton on the CD "Indiana On Our Minds" is the first one I'm thinking of....)
Just looked him up because this weekend, saw a film with Bing Crosby in it, called Birth of the Blues:
it has a song in it where they sing about leaving the main party to find the best music in the kitchen and out back...
being performed by --
"the waiter and the porter and the upstairs maid" - !
A jaunty rhythmic chorus which seemed in my listening mind to correspond with the chorus of another old song from a movie --
"the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe" - !
Both phrases / choruses --
waiter-porter,
and
Atchison-Topeka
have the same beat and twelve syllables.
Googling, discover, both songs written by Johnny Mercer.
Ah-hah.
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