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Amanda Mercer hosts a party as her mother Ginger and nurse Connie, seated, look on. Back of photo reads: Summer '42.

Ginger sits on Johnny Mercer's lap at their Bel Air home.

Amanda Mercer eating cake. Back of photo reads: December '41.

Amanda Mercer poses with the family dog, Niki. Back of photo reads: December '41.

Amanda Mercer in a swimming pool. Back of photo reads: April '42.

Johnny Mercer and Amanda Mercer Corwin prepare for her daughter Nickie's birthday party.

Ginger and Johnny Mercer with an unidentified couple.

Amanda Mercer giving birthday cake to her mother, Ginger.

Amanda Mercer on a swing. Back of photo reads: Summer, 1941.

Ginger Mercer, second from left, at the dais at the Songwriter's Guild of America meeting.

Jeff Mercer watches his mother, Ginger, light the candles on his birthday cake.

Marshall and Barbara Robbins at a dinner party after the Academy Awards in 1962. Marshall was Johnny Mercer's business manager for many years.

Amanda Mercer playing with a balloon. Back of photo reads: Summer, 1941.

Amanda Mercer as a toddler. Back of photo reads: "Spring 1941".

Bing Crosby, standing, in top hat, with performers from the show.

Bessie Burke, Mrs. O'Brien, Pat O'Brien, Dixie Lee Crosby, Johnny Burke, and Bing Crosby.

Amanda Mercer holding her birthday cake.

Johnny Mercer's West Hollywood home at 8218 De Longpre Avenue, after renovations, but before 1950, when the house next door was replaced by an apartment building.

An unidentified woman and Bing Crosby in blackface.

Amanda Mercer celebrates her third birthday.

Jeff Mercer with a party whistle.

Amanda Mercer at a play table with a young boy.

Johnny Mercer with an unidentified man at KFWB Radio in Hollywood.

Dixie Lee Crosby, and unidentified woman, Bessie Burke, unidentified woman, Mrs. O'Brien, and Ginger Mercer.

Pat O'Brien performs at Bing Crosby's house as Crosby looks on.

Jeff Mercer, in striped shirt, with a friend at the family's West Hollywood home at 8218 De Longpre Avenue.

Bing Crosby in top hat and suit.

Jeff Mercer, in straw hat, playing with friends in a red wagon.

Bing Crosby watches the Yacht Club Boys.

Caption reads: "GOLF'S GOOD FOR SINGERS. Thus affirm Ronald Graham (incredulous), Bill Carey (amazed), Johnny Mercer, and Jack Spencer, who are currently to be seen in RKO Radio's musical comedy, "Old Man Rhythm." Mercer, who wrote the lyrics, says swinging a club helps his rhythm, and the other lads get vocal practice oooing and ahhing."

Johnny Mercer's West Hollywood home at 8218 De Longpre Avenue, after renovations.

Johnny Mercer's West Hollywood home at 8218 De Longpre Avenue, after renovations. Back of photo reads: 2300 sq ft 4 Bedrms 3 Bath rms 54 ft wide 73 ft long.

Johnny and Ginger at a party after the Academy Awards in 1962.

George Van Eps during a recording session for "Two of a Kind."

Clarinetist Wilbur Schwartz during a recording session for "Two of a Kind."

Johnny and Ginger Mercer sitting at a piano.

Joe Venuti, Pat O'Brien, Bing Crosby, and Jerry Colonna, at far right, express their appreciation of Bessie Burke's chaps with cutouts displaying her buttocks.

Henry (1924-1994) and Ginny Mancini, Johnny, Ginger, and Amanda Mercer at a party after the Academy Awards in 1962.

Johnny Mercer's West Hollywood home at 8218 De Longpre Avenue, after 1953, when the apartments on the right went up.

Johnny Mercer speaking with an unidentified elderly woman, ca. late 1960s

Amanda and Ginger Mercer hug and pose for a photograph. Front of photo is signed: Valeska, 1944.

Publicity photo of actor Stepin Fetchit (Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry, 1902 - 1985)

Johnny Mercer's West Hollywood home at 8218 De Longpre Avenue, after renovations.

Johnny Mercer poses with Nat "King" Cole, who sits at a piano, ca. 1950s.

Bandleader Billy May (1916-2004) at a recording session for "Two of a Kind."

Jeff Mercer plays with his toy Piper Cub.

Bing Crosby, center, Johnny Burke to the right, and Joe Venuti in striped suit.

Program for the 1938 Westwood Marching and Chowder Club.

Publicity photo of lyricist Bob Russell, inscribed "November 18th, 1968, To John- who has been in my hall of fame for years... Happy Birthday and many, many more... We need you. Bob"

Portrait of Hoagy Carmichael with inscription: "Merry Xmas - 1951, from a sad character - Hoagy-"