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

• Deep Purple
• I Like the Sunrise
• Mood Indigo
• Moonlight Serenade
• Sophisticated Lady
• Stairway to the Stars
• Star Dust (Stardust)
• Stars Fell on Alabama
• Sweet Lorraine

Research Resources: Mitchell Parish

• Amazon (publications, recordings, videos, sheet music, etc.)
• AmericanSongwriter.com ("American Icons: Mitchell Parish" by Paul Zollo)
• DBOPM (Database Of Popular Music: song list, awards, hit songs, co-writers)
• Discogs.com (songwriting and arranging credits)
• TheIndependent.co.uk (Obituary for Parish, 04/03/1993)
• Indiana University Sheet Music Collection (In Harmony): Mitchell Parish
• Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) (Broadway productions and song credits) Stardust The Mitchell Parish Musical
• Internet Movie Database (brief biography, filmography, movie song credits)
• MusicReports.com (Article on Parish as one who wrote lyrics for instrumentals already written.
• New York Public Library (catalog entries for books, personal papers, recordings, scores, etc.)
• The New York Times (articles about or related to the songwriter) Obituary, April 2, 1993
• PBS.org (Leroy Anderson recounts his involvement with lyricist Mitchell Parish.)
• Songwriters Hall of Fame (biography and song list)
• Wikipedia (Mitchell Parish article)
• Alec Wilder, American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950, New York: Oxford University Press, 1972 -- brief comments on 3 Parish lyrics: "Star Dust," "Sophisticated Lady" and "Don't Be That Way."
• ASCAP Biographical Dictionary, New York: American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Cattell/Bowker, Fourth edition, 1980 (dates, collaborators, shows/movies, songs, etc., entry p. 385).
• David Ewen. American Songwriters, An H. W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1987 (includes 146 bios of composers and lyricists). -- a wide selection of used copies is available at abebooks.com (entry pp. 291-293).
• Philip Furia, The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricists,
  New York: Oxford University Press, 1990 (pp.255-258 and others).
• Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball (Eds.), Reading Lyrics, New York: Pantheon Books, 2000 (pp. 335-337 overview plus lyrics to four songs).
• Warren W. Vaché, The Unsung Songwriters: America's Masters of Melody, The Scarecrow Press, 2000 (brief bio; entry pp. 365-366).
• William Zinsser. Easy to Remember The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs. Jaffrey, New Hampshire: David R. Godine, 2001 (pp. 126-127, mostly on "Star Dust").
• Ken Bloom. The American Songbook, The Singers, The Songwriters and the Songs. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2005 (entry, p. 242) and other references.
• Wilfred Sheed, The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty, New York: Random House, 2007 (paperback edition, 2008) -- two brief but revealing comments about Parish on "Star
  Dust," and "Sophisticated Lady."

Notes

• Sheet Music Magazine (January/February 1993) "Mitchell Parish Favorites & Other Assorted Musical Treasures"

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