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- Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate_the_Positive abstract ""Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" 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 "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!'"Mercer 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.Within a matter of weeks, several other recordings of the song were released by other well-known artists:Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters made a recording on December 8, 1944, which was released by Decca Records as catalog number 23379. The record first reached the Billboard magazine charts on January 25, 1945 and lasted nine weeks on the chart, peaking at number 2. Kay Kyser made a recording on December 21, 1944, with Dolly Mitchell and a vocal trio. This was released by Columbia as catalog number 36771. Dinah Washington recorded the song with Lionel Hampton on live broadcast on March 8, 1945. A recording by Artie Shaw was released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number 20-1612. The record first reached the Billboard magazine charts on January 25, 1945 and lasted five weeks on the chart, peaking at number 5.A few months later, another version was recorded by Johnny Green in the United Kingdom on April 6, 1945, and released by Parlophone Records as catalog number F-2069.Connie Francis added the song in 1960 to her "Swinging Medley" (sometimes also referred to as "Gospel Medley"), where she combined it with three other songs: "Yes, indeed", "Amen", and "Lonesome Road". Three versions of this medley were recorded on different occasions in 1960. The first recording was broadcast in a mock-live radio show of National Guard Radio early that year. The two other recordings were intended for release on Francis's label MGM Records but remained unreleased until 1996 on Bear Family Records.Ella Fitzgerald included this song on her 1961 double album "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook" on Verve Records.The song has twice been recorded by Perry Como: once on February 19, 1958 and later in July, 1980. Both were primarily made for albums. Neither version was released as a single in the United States, though the 1958 version was released in Germany by RCA as a single (catalog number 47-9243-A).Aretha Franklin recorded it for The Electrifying Aretha Franklin album for Columbia Records in 1962, and it features in her many re-releases on that label. Soul great Sam Cooke recorded it for his Encore album.Included by Susannah McCorkle on her 1993 From Bessie to Brazil albumThe American rock band NRBQ made another version of this song.The Vindictives, a Chicago punk band, released a version on their 1999 album Hypno-Punko.John Boutte of New Orleans also released a version of this song.The song has been used for many years as the theme for the television program Faithville, in a version by the Spitfire Band.Having notably Positive lyrics with its entire focus on Positive and indeed getting rid of Negatives and Mr. In between, it has been identified as one of the early examples in pop music of Posi Music or Positive Music.Cliff Richard recorded this song on his album Bold as Brass.Billy Gorilly released a recording of the song as a single in January 2012. This version was used as the soundtrack for the animated children's cartoon music video released in October 2012.Paul McCartney covered it on his 2012 album, Kisses on the Bottom.Jools Holland covered this on his 2012 album, The Golden Age Of Song with Rumer (musician) on vocals.×==Appearance in film and television== An early appearance of the song was in Here Come the Waves (1944), starring Bing Crosby and Betty Hutton and directed by Mark Sandrich. Dean Martin and Leslie Uggams performed the song on The Dean Martin Variety Show, Episode 0718 Original Air Date: January 12, 1967. The Bing Crosby/Andrews Sisters recording of the song appears in the 1986 BBC serial The Singing Detective. Bugsy, 1991 The song was used in Coronation Street in 2010 as one of the songs played at Blanche Hunt's funeral. The song featured in the BBC TV Series Casualty on the 9th October 2010, involving Lenny Lyons and a patient with a brain tumour, who could hear the song in her head when she was about to have a seizure. The song was covered by Dr. John for the 1992 movie The Mighty Ducks. The original Johnny Mercer recording of the song features in the 1997 American police drama L.A. Confidential The song appears in the final episode of time-travel television series Quantum Leap. It is also part of the soundtrack for Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, where it is covered by Clint Eastwood. The song was also covered by Perry Como and featured in the 1999 film "Blast from the Past". As sung by Jack Sheldon, it was also the theme song for the U.S. TV series Homefront. It was also used in commercials for Australian health insurance provider HBF in the early 2000s, and UK gas and electricity provider npower in 2008. In April 2011, the first episode of the second season of Treme was called Accentuate the Positive, with several performances of this song. Stephen Colbert sang the song with Julie Andrews on the April 24, 2012 episode of The Colbert Report. The Bing Crosby & Andrews Sisters version features in the 1995 crime thriller http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_to_Do_in_Denver_When_You%27re_Dead.↑ ↑ ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑".
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