Mack Gordon

1942 sheet music cover, "At Last", as recorded by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra from the movie Orchestra Wives, Leo Feist, New York. Mack Gordon (born Morris Gittler; June 21, 1904 – February 28, 1959) was a Polish-American lyricist for the stage and film. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song nine times in 11 years, including five consecutive years from 1940 to 1944, and he won the award for "You'll Never Know". the ship they sailed on was the S/S Bremen; their destination was to his father in Guttenberg, New Jersey. Gordon appeared in vaudeville as an actor and singer in the late 1920s and early 1930s, but his songwriting talents were always paramount.

The Internet Movie Database gives credit to Gordon for songs used in the soundtracks of over 100 films, with Gordon writing specifically for at least 50 of them. His catalogue includes more than 120 songs sung by performers such as Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Etta James, Glenn Miller, Barbra Streisand, Mel Tormé, and Christina Aguilera. "Cigarettes, Cigars" "Danger, Love at Work" "Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?" "Doin' the Uptown Lowdown" "Down Argentine Way" "From the Top of Your Head to the Tip of Your Toes" "Goodnight My Love" "Help Yourself to Happiness" "I Can't Begin to Tell You" "I Feel Like a Feather in the Breeze" "I Had the Craziest Dream" "I Played Fiddle for the Czar" "I Wish I Knew" "I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much)" "I'm Making Believe" "I've Got a Date With a Dream" "I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo" "If You Feel Like Singing, Sing" "In Old Chicago" "It Happened In Sun Valley" "It Happens Every Spring" "It Was a Night in June" "It's Swell of You" "Listen to the German Band" "Lookie, Lookie, Lookie, Here Comes Cookie" "Love Thy Neighbor" "Mam'selle" "May I?" "My Heart is an Open Book" "My Heart Tells Me" "Never in a Million Years" "On the Boardwalk at Atlantic City" "Once in a Blue Moon" "Once Too Often" "Paris in the Spring" "Serenade in Blue" "She Reminds Me of You" "Somebody Soon" "Somewhere in the Night" "Stay As Sweet As You Are" "Sunny Southern Smile" "Takes Two to Make a Bargain" "Thanks for Everything" "The More I See You" "There Will Never Be Another You" "There's a Lull in My Life" "Through a Long and Sleepless Night" "Time on My Hands" "Underneath the Harlem Moon" "What Did I Do?" "When I'm With You" "Wilhelmina" "Without a Word of Warning" "With My Eyes Wide Open, I'm Dreaming" "You Do" "You Make Me Feel So Young" "You Say the Sweetest Things Baby" "You'll Never Know" – winner for 1943 Academy Award for Best Original Song, from Hello, Frisco, Hello

Original works for Broadway Fast and Furious (1931) – revue – primary lyricist Smiling Faces (1932) – musical – lyricist Strike Me Pink (1933) – revue – contributing dialogue-writer