Sidney D. Mitchell, songwriter: reference sources (web and print); selected songs; recordings, videos; miscellany

Sidney Mitchell may be best remembered for his collaboration with Lew Pollack for song scores at 20th Century-Fox in the 1930s and 1940s. For a list of his songs used in movies, see ClassicMovieMusicals.com.

One of Pollack's and Mitchell's movies at Fox was Pigskin Parade (1936), a college football movie typical of the period. At the same time MGM was having a hard time figuring out what to do with "the little girl with the big voice" otherwise known as Judy Garland, so they loaned her out to Fox for the football picture. As Ken Bloom tells us, "Fox knew exactly what to with Garland: they gave her Mitchell and Pollack songs tailored to her voice. She made quite an impression in the film, but MGM held her contract and Fox had to let her go" (Bloom, p. 267). (A good move by MGM because three years later that studio made The Wizard of Oz.)

• Sugar (that sugar baby o' mine)
• You Turned the Tables on Me

Research Resources: Sidney D. Mitchell

• DBOPM (Database Of Popular Music: song list; awards; hit songs; co-writers)
• Wikipedia article
• Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) (Broadway productions and song credits)
• Internet Movie Database (brief biography, filmography, movie song credits)
• The New York Times (articles about or related to the songwriter)
• New York Public Library (catalog entries for books, personal papers, recordings, scores, etc.)
• Discogs.com (credits: singles, LPs and CD's including songs by this songwriter)
• Indiana University Sheet Music Collection: Sidney D. Mitchell
• ClassicMovieMusicals.com (Mitchell songs used in movies)
• Victor Discography for Sidney D. Mitchell (pre-1930 releases)
• ASCAP Biographical Dictionary of Composers, Authors and Publishers, New York: American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (1966 edition, entry p. 515).
• Gary Marmorstein, Hollywood Rhapsody: Movie Music and Its Makers, 1900-1975,
  New York: Schirmer Books, 1997 (two references).
• Ken Bloom. The American Songbook, The Singers, The Songwriters and the Songs. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2005 (entry on Mitchell and Lew Pollack, p. 267).

Notes

• Ken Bloom, The American Songbook: The Singers, the Songwriters, and the Songs , New York: Black Dog and Leventhal, 2005.

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