Midnight Sun (song)
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"Midnight Sun" (1954) was originally an instrumental composed by Lionel Hampton and Sonny Burke, now considered a jazz standard. Subsequently, Johnny Mercer wrote the words to the song. One famous recording of the song with the Mercer lyrics is by Ella Fitzgerald on her album Like Someone in Love (1957).
[edit] Story behind the lyrics
According to Furia,[1] Johnny Mercer was driving along the freeway from Palm Springs to Hollywood, California, when he heard the instrumental on his car radio and started to set words to the song as he drove.
[edit] References
- ^ Furia, Phillip (1990). The Poets of Tin Pan Alley. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
[edit] See also
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