Geoffrey Claremont Parsons

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Geoffrey Claremont Parsons was a lyricist.

He worked at the Peter Maurice Music Company run by James Phillips, who wrote under the pseudonym 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. The credits for the English lyrics would then be given as "John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons."

[edit] Lyrics credited to Parsons alone

• "If You Love Me (Really Love Me)"
• "La Seine"

[edit] Lyrics credited to Turner and Parsons

• "Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart."
• "Mama."
• "Oh! My Pa-Pa," based on the German language song "O Mein Papa," by Paul Burkhard.
• "Smile."

[edit] Lyrics credited to Turner, Parsons, and another collaborator

• "The Little Shoemaker," based on the French language song "Le petit cordonnier," with Nathan Korb.

"Eternally", the words credited to Geoffrey Parsons & John Turner; the music credited to Charles Chaplin.