The Lovers’ Chronicle 18 November – come true – art by Wyndham Lewis – birth of Johnny Mercer

Dear Zazie,  Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag dedicated to his muse.  What has come true for you? Rhett

The Lovers’ Chronicle

Dear Muse,

switched up the theme today because
it does not fit with where we are
but it was inspired by the great
Johnny Mercer song “I Remember You”
“He wrote some fabulous songs”
suppose it could be about recallin’
our significant moments; first date,
first kiss, our Wednesday rendez-vous
“Yes and many others to remember”
and how what we wanted came true

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how many dreams ever do, the best laid of poets and misfits, started on this day rememberin’ but then switched gears, do hope you can keep up, because i have written often of memories but not much on dreams comin’ true and they can, just look at what you are holdin’, and look at us

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never forgot, would not be here had i;
every attempt ended in a crash and burn
but their were brief moments when i caught
a glimpse of what could make it worth
comin’ back for more

helped when i let go of the illusion
that it happens for everyone
only then could i be ready
for what came true

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Pale Love, Pale rider

time
for a long hello,
and if it could be
every day

when we sat on that bench
and our eyes met, a smile,
a moment and we knew
we cannot let this go

we can have this our way
so that when we are asked
to recall, the thrill of it all
we will not need to remember
for we will still be livin’ it

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from that instant
i had not to take
another step

the bed moves away
from under us, our actions
cease to require any control,
or even attention, from our will

come to take us in our arms,
carried away and laid down
expectantly by the simple
impulse of inspiration

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above all i recall
i saw you smile

you are the one
who made this come true
did you not know

i remember too,
though there were
no bells, nor stars that fell

when all is done
and i recall the thrill
of it all, i shall say,
i remember you

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drove 1300 miles in 31 hours
all I needed was Snowman
followin’ in a big rig
full of bootleg Coors,
course I had no Frog
that woulda been nice

oh, and I figured out
my superpower…
I have been through
so many crash
and burn love affairs;
I must be fireproof

***

happenin’ as i had hoped
comin’ here every day
and you, how have you been
do you come here often
do you like the views
always try to select the best visuals
and the stories, do you find of interest
best intentions with the day in history
notes and the verse, to be honest
anyway, thanks for stoppin’ by

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always begin and end
with thoughts of you
and how you brought
so much light
At times
the combination
was overpowerin’

Even now, they are thoughts
I cannot imagine bein’ without
and yet I am forlorn
that we are not there now

I go there often
with you in my dreams

They look like they have
What I always thought I wanted
What I cannot imagine havin’

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No darlin’, no need to thank me
I cannot even imagine
I just knew what I had to do
for you

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Born of Darkness
An apprentice
To a master
Learned her ways and
Lived her ways, not
At all concerned
With regret or
Consequences

Dichotomy
Definitely
The ages old
Struggle between
Darkness and light
So much time spent
In the Dark, the
Pull is strong and
The struggle hard

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Today is the birthday of Wyndham Lewis (Percy Wyndham Lewis; Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada; 18 November 1882 – 7 March 1957 London); writer, painter and critic (he dropped the name “Percy”, which he disliked). He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art, and edited the literary magazine of the Vorticists, BLAST. His novels include his pre-World War I-era novel Tarr (set in Paris), and The Human Age, a trilogy comprising The Childermass (1928), Monstre Gai and Malign Fiesta (both 1955), set in the afterworld. A fourth volume of The Human Age, The Trial of Man, was begun by Lewis but left in a fragmentary state at the time of his death. He also wrote two autobiographical volumes, Blasting and Bombardiering (1937) and Rude Assignment: A Narrative of my Career Up-to-Date(1950).

by George Charles Beresford, half-plate glass negative, 1913

In 1930, Lewis married Gladys Anne Hoskins (1900–79), affectionately known as ‘Froanna’. 

In the 1930s Lewis kept Froanna in the background, and many of his friends were simply unaware of her existence. It seems that Lewis was extraordinarily jealous and protective of his wife, owing to her youth and beauty (she was eighteen years his junior). They lived together for ten years before marrying. Froanna was patient and caring toward her husband through financial troubles and his frequent illnesses. She was the model for some of Lewis’s most tender and intimate portraits, as well as a number of characters in his fiction. In contrast to his earlier, rather impersonal portraits, which are purely concerned with external appearance, the portraits of Froanna show a preoccupation with her inner life.

Gallery

Johnny Mercer
c 1947

And today is the birthday of Johnny Mercer (John Herndon Mercer; Savannah, Georgia; November 18, 1909 – June 25, 1976 Hollywood); lyricist, songwriter and singer.  He was also the founder of Capitol Records.  Perhaps best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music.  He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as those written by others.  From the mid-1930s through the mid-1950s, many of the songs Mercer wrote and performed were among the most popular hits of the time.  He wrote the lyrics to more than fifteen hundred songs, including compositions for movies and Broadway shows.  He received nineteen Academy Award nominations, and won four Best Original Song Oscars.

In 1931, Mercer married chorus girl Ginger Meehan.  In 1941 Mercer began an intense affair with 19-year-old Judy Garland while she was engaged to composer David Rose.  Garland married Rose to stop the affair, but the effect on Mercer lingered, adding to the emotional depth of his lyrics.  Their affair revived later.  Mercer stated that his song “I Remember You” was the most direct expression of his feelings for Garland.

He died from a brain tumor.  Mercer was buried in Savannah’s historic Bonaventure Cemetery.  The simple line drawing caricature adorning his memorial bench is a reproduction of a self-portrait.

Lyrics 

• You got to ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive
  E-lim-i-nate the negative
  And latch on to the affirmative.
  Don’t mess with mister inbetween.
  • Song Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive
• From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe, wherever the four winds blow
  I been in some big towns an’ heard me some big talk, but there is one thing I know
  A woman’s a two-face, a worrisome thing who’ll leave ya to sing the blues in the night.
  • Song Blues in the Night
• The days of wine and roses laugh and run away like a child at play
  Through the meadow land toward a closing door
  A door marked “nevermore” that wasn’t there before
  • Song The Days of Wine and Roses
• Shine little glow-worm, glimmer, glimmer.
  Shine little glow-worm, glimmer, glimmer.
  Lead us lest too far we wander.
  Love’s sweet voice is calling yonder.
  • Song The Glow-Worm
• So you met someone who set you back on your heels – goody, goody
  You met someone and now you know how it feels – goody, goody
  • Song Goody, Goody
• Skylark,
  Have you seen a valley green with Spring
  Where my heart can go a-journeying,
  Over the shadows in the rain
  To a blossom covered lane?
  And in your lonely flight,
  Haven’t you heard the music in the night,
  Wonderful music,
  Faint as a will-o-the-wisp,
  Crazy as a loon,
  Sad as a gypsy serenading the moon.
  • Song “Skylark” (1942)
• I remember too, a distant bell…
  and stars that fell…
  like the rain
  out of the blue.
  • Song “I Remember You” (1941)
• When my life is through
  And the angels ask me to recall
  The thrill of them all
  Then I shall tell them
  I remember you
  • Song I Remember You
• Cigarette holder,
  which wigs me,
  over her shoulder
  she digs me:
  Out cattin’
  that Satin Doll.
  • Song “Satin Doll” (1953)
• There’s a long goodbye,
  and it happens every day,
  when a passerby
  invites your eye
  to come away.
  Even as you smile a quick hello
  you let her go,
  you let the moment fly…
  Too late you turn your head,
  you know you’ve said
  the Long Goodbye.
  • Song “The Long Goodbye” (1973)
• I know all the songs that the cowboys know
  ’bout the big corral where the doggies go,
  ‘Cause I learned them all on the radio.
  Yippie yi yo kayah
  • Song I’m an old Cowhand

The song of the day is Jo Stafford’s version of “I Remember You“. we do not own the rights to this song. no copyright infringement intended.

Mac Tag

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