Who recorded this Johnny Mercer song?

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In the Forties there was a song by Johnny Mercer with lyrics like this:

  • My sugar is so refined,
    She’s one of them high-class kind;
    She never wears a hat, but just a chapeau,
    And goes to see the cinema, but never a show. *

“My Sugar Is So Refined.”
What I want to know is: Who made the best-known recording of this song?

2

Would you accept “Johnny Mercer?”

His picture is on the sheet music, after all. It appears to have actually been written by Sylvia Dee and Sidney Lippman.

A check of the title on YouTube indicates he recorded it with the Pied Pipers. Also, the Hi-Los appear to have had a go at it.

If you want to research sales numbers on the two, you’re on your own.

3

His is the only version to appear on the Billboard charts, in 1946. It peaked at 11 and was there for 9 weeks.

Here’s search results from AllMusic.com for other recordings of the song. Seems to have been popular with Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole and Peggy Lee as well.

4

Thanx:)

5

I can only find three versions issued in the US during the 78 rpm era, two of which have been mentioned already. I’ll fill in whatever other data I can find.

Johnny Mercer and the Piper Pipers: Capitol matrix #1129; recorded May 26, 1946; issued on Capitol 268; reviewed in Billboard on July 27, 1946.

The Ravens: King matrix #5564; issued on King 4293; advertised in Billboard on June 25, 1949.

The Hi-Los: issued on Columbia 41050; reviewed in Billboard on November 11, 1957.

6

I guess that covers it. Thanks to all.:slight_smile: