Ac-Cen-Tchu-Ate the Positive 31st in 1944

Music written by: Harold Arlen
Lyrics written by: Johnny Mercer
Language: English
ISWC: T-070.000.128-0 ASCAP, ISWC, JASRAC
Comments: Written for the 1944 movie Here Come the Waves. The lyrics, according to Mercer, were inspired by a church sermon: "I 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!’
Published by: HARWIN MUSIC CORPORATION ASCAP
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