Performance · Other credits

Geoffrey Parsons

real name Geoffrey Claremont Parsons

Geoffrey Parsons is credited on 3,350 releases across 915 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

Start your shelf →Open in app
Photo of Geoffrey Parsons

3,350

Credits

915

Albums

8

Decades active

245

In collections

Biography

source

Showing the Discogs bio

English lyricist, famous for song "Smile".
For Australian classical pianist, use Geoffrey Parsons.
Born 7 January 1910.
Died 22 December 1987 in Eastbourne, East Sussex, England, UK.
Parsons worked at the Peter Maurice Music Company run by James Phillips (aka John Turner). 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.
Most famous for writing the lyrics for "Smile", a song that is generally associated with the Charlie Chaplin.

Bio from Discogs

Credited work

3,350 releases · 915 albums · active 1950–2025

  • Performance · 3,454
  • Other credits · 28

Studios: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · Motown/Hitsville U.S.A. Recording Studios · RCA Victor Studios, Nashville · Air Studios

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Frequent collaborators

Around the web

See who really made the music.

Gatefold maps every producer, engineer, and player across your shelf — the credits no one else surfaces.

Start your shelf →

Free forever. Works with 10 records or 10,000.