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And while no one is likely to copy Cole Porter's Begin the Beguine, Johnny Mercer's Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive, The B-52s 'Rock Lobster or Gary Stewart's She's Actin' Single I'm Drinkin 'Doubles, there are dozens of cases in which two or more songs with the same title have become popular.

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No one seems to have told them that art has another, equally important function, one that Goethe summed up pretty well when he said that it should be "life-enhancing" and that Johnny Mercer hit dead center in "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive": "You've got to spread joy up to the maximum."

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Yet, that score also includes the infectiously sly "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" (Arlen, again) which could serve as a Mercer motto.

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(Soundbite of song, �Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive�) Mr. MERCER: (Singing) If you wanna hear my story, then settle back and just sit tight.

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Ac-Cen-Tchu-Ate the Positive (Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters); good!

Archive 2006-03-01 2006

Ac-Cen-Tchu-Ate the Positive (Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters); good!

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Mercer had written the lyrics and sometimes also the music for dozens of songs I'd known since childhood, gentle songs that had a mellow eloquence: "Jeepers Creepers," "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive,"

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Berendt, John 1994

Mercer had written the lyrics and sometimes also the music for dozens of songs I'd known since childhood, gentle songs that had a mellow eloquence: "Jeepers Creepers," "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive,"

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Berendt, John 1994

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In the Forbidden Land Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

The _Tchu-pun_ was the lowest grade, and only had ten men under him; then came the _Kiatsamba-pun_ or

An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894