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Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive

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Songs with music by Harold Arlen 1944 songs Songs with lyrics by Johnny Mercer Al Jarreau songs Paul McCartney songs Perry Como songs United States National Recording Registry recordings Pop standards Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients 1945 songs

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%22Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive%22 is a popular song. The music was written by Harold Arlen and the lyrics by Johnny Mercer, and it was published in 1944. It is sung in the style of a sermon, and explains that accentuating the positive is key to happiness. In describing his inspiration for the lyric, Mercer told the Pop Chronicles radio documentary %22[my] publicity agent ... went to hear Father Divine and he had a sermon and his subject was 'you got to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative.' And I said 'Wow, that's a colorful phrase!'%22Mercer recorded the song, with The Pied Pipers and Paul Weston's orchestra, on October 4, 1944, and it was released by Capitol Records as catalog number 180. The record first reached the Billboard magazine charts on January 4, 1945 and lasted 13 weeks on the chart, peaking at number 2.On March 25, 2015 it was announced that Mercer's version will be inducted into the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry for the song's %22cultural, artistic and/or historical significance to American society and the nation’s audio legacy%22.

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AcCentTchuAte The Positive