Polish-American composer and lyricist of songs for the stage and film
Mack Gordons family emigrated to New York in about 1908.
Starting in vaudeville as an actor, and then as a lyricist, he later teamed with pianist Harry Revel. Following their contributions to the 1931 Ziegfeld Follies, Paramount offered them a contract.
His popular-song compositions include "Youll Never Know" (Academy Award, 1943), "Chattanooga Choo-Choo", "Ive Got a Gal in Kalamazoo", "Time on My Hands", "Help Yourself to Happiness", "Listen to the German Band", "Underneath the Harlem Moon", "I Played Fiddle for the Czar", "An Orchid to You", "A Tree Was a Tree", "It Was a Night in June", "Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?", "Doin the Uptown Lowdown", "She Reminds Me of You", "Once in a Blue Moon", "May I?", "Love Thy Neighbor", "With My Eyes Wide Open Im Dreaming", "Stay as Sweet as You Are", "College Rhythm", "Take a Number From One to Ten", "Straight From the Shoulder", "My Heart Is an Open Book", "Lookie, Lookie, Lookie, Here Comes Cookie", "Paris In the Spring", "Without a Word of Warning", "Takes Two to Make a Bargain", "From the Top of Your Head to the Tip of Your Toes", "I Feel Like a Feather in the Breeze", "You Hit the Spot", "A Star Fell Out of Heaven", "Goodnight, My Love", "In Old Chicago", "But Definitely", "Oh My Goodness", "When Im With You", "Its Swell of You", "Never in a Million Years", "Wake Up and Live", "Theres a Lull in My Life", "Afraid to Dream", "Danger, Love at Work", "You Cant Have Everything", "May I Have the Next Romance With You", "Sweet Someone", "An Old Straw Hat", "In Any Language", "Meet the Beat of My Heart", "Thanks For Everything", "You Say the Sweetest Things, Baby", "Two Dreams Met", "Down Argentine Way", "It Happened in Sun Valley", "I Know Why", "I Yi Yi Yi Yi I Like You Very Much", "Chica Chica Boom Chic", "There Will Never Be Another You", "I Had the Craziest Dream", "People Like You and Me", "At Last", "Serenade in Blue", "My Heart Tells Me", "The More I See You", "Once Too Often", "I Cant Begin to Tell You", "On the Boardwalk at Atlantic City", "You Make Me Feel So Young", "Somewhere in the Night", "Kokomo, Indiana", "You Do", "Everytime I Meet You", "What Did I Do?", "It Happens Every Spring", "If You Feel Like Singing, Sing", "Mamselle", "A Lady Loves", "Baby, Wont You Say You Love Me", "Wilhelmina", "Nowhere Guy", "All About Love", "Through a Long and Sleepless Night" and "Somebody Soon".
Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.
