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"Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" is a popular song which was published in 1944. The music was written by Harold Arlen and the lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 18th Academy Awards in 1945 after being used in the film Here Come the Waves.
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- October 4, 1944
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“Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive” is a popular song which was published in 1944. The music was written by Harold Arlen and the lyrics by Johnny Mercer.
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“Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive” is one of many songs that mark Johnny Mercer as a distinctively Southern lyricist. At a time when most songwriters—Irving Berlin, the Gershwins, Rodgers and Hart--came from New York City, immigrants or the children of Jewish immigrants, Johnny Mercer stemmed from a prominent Savannah family that
