- Collection:
- Johnny Mercer Oral History Project
- Title:
- Claire Meltzer oral history interview
- Creator:
- Meltzer, Claire Meehan, -2001
- Contributor to Resource:
- Paton, Christopher Ann, 1956-
- Publisher:
- Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 1997-11-07
- Subject:
- Lyricists
Popular music - People:
- Mercer, Johnny, 1909-1976
Mercer, Ginger (Elizabeth Meltzer) 1909-1994 - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Text
Sound - Format:
- application/pdf
audio/mpeg - Description:
- At the beginning of this interview, Ms. Meltzer speaks about her sisters, her mother, and her father, giving information about her mother's birthplace, her parents' names, their immigration to the United States from Russia, and her early life in Brooklyn with her sisters, Debbie and Ginger. She talks at some length about her sister Ginger's early stage career, and about Ginger's early relationship with and marriage to Johnny Mercer. Ms. Meltzer then speaks briefly of the period after Ginger and Johnny Mercer moved to Hollywood, and of Mandy and Jeff, the Mercers' two children. She also touches on Ginger's gifts as a pianist as a young girl. The conversation turns to a discussion of some family pictures from the Mercer archives, copies of which were available for the interview. Ms. Meltzer then talks about her own career in the U.S. Post Office and about her sister Debbie and her family. She mentions Mandy and Jeff Mercer again at the end of the interview.
Claire Meltzer, who was born in Brooklyn, New York, was the older sister of Elizabeth ("Ginger") Meehan Mercer, the wife of Johnny Mercer. During her professional life, Ms. Meltzer worked as an accountant for the Post Office Department for thirty-five years, first in Washington, DC, and later in North Carolina and New York. After retirement, she lived in Florida and, later, in Georgia. - Local Identifier:
- M149_MeltzerC
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/merceroh/id/82
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/merceroh:82/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright to items in this collection is owned by Georgia State University Library. Georgia State University Library has made this digital collection available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License. Please see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ for more information.
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: M149_MeltzerC, Johnny Mercer Oral History Project, Popular Music and Culture Collection, Special Collections and Archives, University Library, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.
- Extent:
- Audio: 00:34:42, Transcript: 27 pages
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
