Jeepers_Creepers_(song)
Jeepers Creepers (song)
1939 song by Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer
"Jeepers Creepers" is a popular song and jazz standard. The music was written by Harry Warren and the lyrics by Johnny Mercer for the 1938 movie Going Places.[1] It was premiered by Louis Armstrong and has been covered by many other musicians.[2] The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1938 but lost to "Thanks for the Memory".[3] The song was included in the 1984 Smithsonian collection American Popular Song: Six Decades of Songwriters and Singers[4] and in the 1998 album The Songs of Harry Warren.[5]