Geoffrey Parsons (lyricist)

Geoffrey Claremont Parsons (7 January 1910 – 22 December 1987) was an English lyricist.

Parsons worked at the Peter Maurice Music Company run by James Phillips, who wrote under the pen name John Turner.^[1] The company specialized in adapting songs originally in foreign languages into the English language. Phillips would usually assign a song to Parsons and, when the latter was finished, suggest some changes. The credits for the English lyrics would then be given as "John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons."

Parsons died in Eastbourne in 1987.

Songs

• "Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart" (with Turner)
• "Eternally", with John Turner; music by Charles Chaplin (Theme from Limelight)
• "If You Love Me (Really Love Me)" ("Hymne à l'amour," original lyrics by Édith Piaf)
• "The Little Shoemaker" based on the French song "Le petit cordonnier", with Turner and Nathan Korb.
• "Mama" (with Turner)
• "Oh! My Pa-Pa" based on the German song "O Mein Papa" by Paul Burkhard, under the pseudonym "John Sexton" (with Turner)
• "La Seine"
• "Smile" (with Turner)^[1][2]

References

1. ""Smile" | Stories of Standards". KUVO. 27 June 2016. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
2. Lochner, Jim (20 September 2018). The Music of Charlie Chaplin. McFarland. p. 233. ISBN 978-1-4766-3351-0.

External links

• Geoffrey Parsons at IMDb
• Geoffrey Parsons discography at Discogs