Robert Sour

Robert B. Sour (October 31, 1905 – March 6, 1985) was an American lyricist and composer, and the president of Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI).

Career Sour's songwriting career began in 1929.

Sour composed music and lyrics for both film and theater. Partnering with Henry Manners and Helen Bliss, the trio wrote the songs "Twitterpated" and "Thumper's Song" for the soundtrack of the Walt Disney Productions animated feature Bambi (1942).

In 1940, Sour worked for Broadcast Music as its lyrics editor, and by 1966 had risen through company ranks to become BMI's president. Two years later he had become the company's vice chairman and was instrumental in establishing BMI's musical theater workshop He was married to Geraldine Scofield Sour, and had previously been married to the former Jane Erstein.

Sour was one of the jurors in the murder trial of Eddie Lee Mays, who in 1963 became the last man executed in New York.

Sour died in New York City on March 6, 1985, at the age of 79.