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Johnny Mercer, an Uncommon card
John Herndon Mercer was an American lyricist, songwriter, and singer, as well as a record label executive who co-founded Capitol Records with music industry businessmen Buddy DeSylva and Glenn E. Wallichs.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 76
- DEF
- 62
- Power
- 138
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 150,000
Power 138 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is best known as a Tin Pan Alley lyricist, but he sometimes composed music, despite not knowing piano or standard musical notation, and was a popular singer who recorded his own as well as others' songs from the mid-1930s through the mid-1970s.
- Mercer wrote the lyrics to more than 1,200 songs, including compositions for movies, Broadway shows, and well-known standards of the time, including "Autumn Leaves", "Days of Wine and Roses", "Hooray for Hollywood", "I'm an Old Cowhand", and "Moon River".
- He received eighteen Oscar nominations and won four Best Original Song Oscars.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Johnny Mercer article was read about 150,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 76 and blocks with 62: each hit it takes is cut by 25 %.
How to get Johnny Mercer
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Johnny Mercer (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : William P. Gottlieb, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.