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Contact Prints of Bing Crosby, Johnny Mercer, Carol Lawrence, Rosemary Clooney, Gordon MacRae, at recording sessions for Crosby's television program. Original air date: October 5, 1960

Scene from Old Man Rhythm with key to actors' names. Bottom reads: "Scene from 'Old Man Rhythm' RKO Radio Pictures - May 10, 1935 (1) Charles "Buddy" Rodgers (2) Lucille Ball (3) J. Maloy Roach (4) Johnny Mercer (5) Betty Grable (6) Dave Chasen (7) Kay Sutton- Mrs. Dan Topping"

Unidentified performers are also the audience at a mock-minstrel show.

Muriel Landers, Donald O'Connor, and an unidentified actor in a spoof of The King and I. International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton.

Actor Charles Coburn, left, with Johnny Mercer.

Bing Crosby and Johnny Mercer talk with Jimmy Rowles (1919-1996) and others.

Jerry Colonna and Johnny Mercer performing at a mock-minstrel show.

Unidentified performers at a mock-minstrel show.

Unidentified performers at a mock-minstrel show.

Pat O'Brien (1899-1983) and unidentified people at a mock-minstrel show.

Unidentified performers in blackface at a mock-minstrel show.

Johnny Mercer and an unidentified man.

Unidentified couple at a mock-minstrel show.

Ginger Mercer dressed as a cowgirl and Johnny Mercer dressed as a Native American at the SHARE Benefit Party in May of 1960.

Unidentified people attending a mock-minstrel show.

Band leader Paul Weston and Johnny Mercer at Capitol Records microphone.

Johnny Mercer with Dinah Shore and Harry James, ca. 1940s.

Nat "King" Cole at piano with Johnny Mercer and the Pied Pipers.

William Frawley (1877-1966) performs at a mock-minstrel show. Johnny Mercer is seated onstage to the left.

Nat "King" Cole plays the piano with an unidentified man looking over his shoulder.

Johnny Mercer chats with an unidentified woman, ca. late-1930s.

Miriam Call and Johnny Mercer sitting on a couch

A large group of unidentified people at a mock-minstrel show.

Carol Lawrence portrays Little Orphan Annie with an unidentified actor playing Annie's dog, Sandy, for Bing Crosby's Television program.

Ginger and Johnny Mercer at a dinner with a group of unidentified people, ca. early-1960s.

Andy Devine (1905-1977) watches Dillon Ober play the xylophone.

Bing Crosby in a TV recording session with his sons, l-r:, Phil, Lindsay (1938-1989), and Dennis. Original air date: October 5, 1960

Unidentified man, Harry James, Dinah Shore, Johnny Mercer, and another unidentified man.

Text on reverse: "D-6126 Ernest Enloe Cotton, a former Tuskegee student now employed by the California Shipbuilding Corporation, is shown with a lead man examining the weld head put on a section of the double bottom of a Liberty ship. The Booker T. Washington, first Negro ship named for a Negro, was constructed in this yard. Mr. Washington founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama." Stetson Kennedy (1916-2011), writer and civil rights activist, collected these photographs during the course of his career fighting for equality throughout the Southern United States.

Johnny Mercer with a recording microphone, ca. 1966.

Shirtless Johnny Mercer on the patio

Johnny and Jeff Mercer chat with Jack Teagarden and Paul Whiteman, ca. late-1950s.

Johnny Mercer, second from right, on stage with an orchestra for a NBC radio broadcast, ca. 1938.

Robert Mitchum (1917-1997) and Johnny Mercer at the Playboy Club, ca. mid-1960s.

Jim Backus (1913-1989) and Bob Hope perform at a mock-minstrel show.

Allen Jenkins (second from right) and other performers at a mock-minstrel show.

Andy Devine (1905-1977) performs at a mock-minstrel show.

Johnny Mercer in his Bel-Air driveway.

Performers on stage with an orchestra for a NBC radio broadcast, ca. 1938.

Bing Crosby sings in blackface at a mock-minstrel show.

Pat O'Brien (1899-1983) and an unidentified woman perform at a mock-minstrel show.

Unidentified performer at a mock-minstrel show.

Johnny Mercer with Dinah Shore and Harry James, ca. 1940s.

A publicity photo of Johnny Mercer, ca. late-1950s.

Johnny Mercer and Walt Disney look over Capitol recordings from "Song of the South", ca. 1948.

Johnny Mercer and Lena Horne (1917-2010) smile for the camera, ca. early-1950s.

l-r: Jerry Colonna, Johnny Mercer, Pat O'Brien, Bing Crosby, and an unidentified man onstage at a mock-minstrel show.

Bing Crosby in a TV recording session with his sons, l-r:, Phil, Lindsay (1938-1989), and Dennis. Original air date: October 5, 1960

Johnny Mercer (in rear, fourth from left) with a gathering of Hollywood composers, including Harry Warren, seated at piano, ca. 1936

Unidentified man, Harry James, Dinah Shore, Johnny Mercer, and another unidentified man.