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Mort Shuman

Mortimer Shuman (12 November 1938[1][2] – 2 November 1991) was an American singer, pianist and songwriter, best known as co-writer of many 1960s rock and roll hits, including "Viva Las Vegas".[3] He also wrote and sang many songs in French, such as "Le Lac Majeur", "Papa-Tango-Charly", "Sha Mi Sha", "Un Été de Porcelaine", and "Brooklyn by the Sea" which became hits in France and several other European countries.

Mort Shuman

(1938-11-12)12 November 1938
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

2 November 1991(1991-11-02) (aged 52)
London, England

Rock and roll

Singer, pianist, songwriter

Awards and honors[edit]

Shuman was named one of the 2010 recipients of the Ahmet Ertegun Award from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He joined his early collaborator Doc Pomus, who was inducted in 1992.[7]

(1976) - certified Gold in France

Imagine

À Nous Les Petites Anglaises! (1990)

Distant Drum (1991)

(1970)

A Day at the Beach

(1971)

Romance of a Horsethief

(1974)

Black Thursday

(1975) (Actor and lyricist)

Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris

(1976) (Actor)

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

A Guy Like Me Should Never Die (1976) (Actor and composer)

(1976)

Let's Get Those English Girls

(1976)

Game of Seduction

(1976)

A Real Young Girl

(1976) (Actor and composer)

High Street

La Nuit de Saint-Germain-des-Prés (1977) (Actor and composer)

(1977) (Actor and composer)

The More It Goes, the Less It Goes

(1977)

Monsieur Papa

(1978)

Holiday Hotel

(1979)

The Associate

Psy (1981)

Cent Francs L'amour (1986)

(As composer unless otherwise stated)

Bloom, Ken. American song. The complete musical theater companion. 1877–1995, Vol. 2, 2nd edition, Schirmer Books, 1996.

Larkin, Colin. The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Third edition, Macmillan, 1998.

Stambler, Irwin. Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock and Soul, St. Martin's Press, 1974.

Obituary in The New York Times, 4 November 1991 (retrieved 22 January 2010)

Mort Shuman Dies