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Thread: I Wanna Be Around - Johnny’s Mercer-Sadie Vimmerstedt

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    Default I Wanna Be Around - Johnny’s Mercer-Sadie Vimmerstedt

    I Wanna Be Around - Sadie Vimmerstedt

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    Default I Wanna Be Around - Johnny Mercer-Sadie Vimmerstedt

    Couldn't find this in the list so figure I'd add it. If it's there under another name apologies for duplicating.

    I Wanna Be Around - Johnny Mercer-Sadie Vimmerstedt

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    Another version is posted here:
    http://www.irealb.com/forums/showthr...er-Vimmerstedt

    " crossover" songs can have a discussion thread in more than one genre forum.
    http://www.irealb.com/forums/showthr...5888#post35888
    Thanks for sharing your chart.
    )BOB

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    Default I Wanna Be Around

    Can anyone post an iRealPro chart for this Johnny Mercer tune? Thanks on advance.
    Last edited by pdxdjazz; 08-20-2019 at 06:42 PM. Reason: Moved to existing song thread

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    Quote Originally Posted by howardblu View Post
    Can anyone post an iRealPro chart for this Johnny Mercer tune? Thanks on advance.
    Please review this helpful info:
    https://www.irealb.com/forums/showth...-Request-Songs

    The story of “I Wanna Be Around” is legendary in the music business. Sadie Vimmerstedt, who lived in Youngstown, Ohio, was a big fan of Johnny Mercer’s music. She wrote the opening line ‘I want to be around to pick up the pieces, when somebody breaks your heart’ and felt it sounded like a Johnny Mercer song. She mailed a letter to ‘Johnny Mercer, Songwriter, New York.’ The post office forwarded the letter to ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), who got the letter to Mercer. Mercer wrote the melody himself and completed the lyrics for “I Wanna Be Around” in 1959 and asked Tony Bennett to record it, which he did in 1962. Mercer gave 50% of the profits to Ms. Vimmerstedt, which made her a wealthy woman and enabled her to retire and travel the world. It is one of the great songs in the American Songbook. https://secondhandsongs.com/work/21829
    )BOB

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