www.FlapperGirlSINGS.com The Midnight Sun Composers: Lionel Hampton & Sonny Burke (1947) originally an instrumental jazz composition, the tune was gifted impeccable lyrics by the great Johnny Mercer a few years later. Miss McDougald’s unique, innovative arrangement, incorporating alternating time signatures, highlights her vocal flexibility and keen interpretative phrasing and throws light on the great Dave Liebman’s definitive outside approach to an otherwise American standard.