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Samuel N. Mitchell
Samuel N. Mitchell (1846-1905) was an American song lyricist and newspaperman who wrote lyrics for a number of popular songs in the 1870s.〔(Americana ), Volume 7, Part 1, p. 536 (1912) ("One of the best known men in the profession forty years ago was Samuel N. Mitchell, a bard of no small note, the writer of hundreds of songs, and associated with the newspapers for many years and the only one who could be found to ...")〕〔(Story on Mitchell ), ''Skaneateles Democrat'' (November 1905?) (reprinted story from ''New Bedford Standard'', lists many of Mitchell's popular songs, but noting that many are rarely song today, such being the nature of popular music)〕〔(28 November 1905). (Songs and Their Writers ), ''Boston Evening Transcript'' (''New Bedford Standard'' article, more readable copy)〕
==Songwriter==
Mitchell wrote lyrics for many hundreds of songs, and collaborated with a number of composers. One of his most popular songs during his life was ''Just Touch the Harp Gently, My Pretty Louise'', first published in 1870. An 1890 profile of Mitchell in the ''Boston Globe'' reported that an astounding (and surely exaggerated) four million copies of the song had been sold.〔(11 December 1890). (A Composer of Songs: He Wrote Sweet Ballads, But Others Got The Ducats ), ''The Day'' (reprinted from the ''Boston Globe'')〕 Mitchell claimed to never have received any payment for the song, however, as the lyrics were "stolen bodily" from him and brought to London, where Charles Blamphin set them to music. It became popular in England, and eventually theatrical producer Lydia Thompson brought it back to America in the play ''Bluebeard'', and it became popular in the United States as well. Not making a living on his creations, Mitchell was toiling in a newspaper mailroom despite his lyrical successes.〔〔(21 February 1891). (Songs of the People ), ''The Illustrated American''〕〔(Books at Brown, Volume 21 ), p. 192 (1966)〕
Perhaps Mitchell's most enduring song is ''Put My Little Shoes Away'', which he wrote with Charles E. Pratt in 1873.〔Erbsen, Wayne. (Rural roots of bluegrass: songs, stories & history ), p. 138 (2003)〕 A mournful ballad where a dying child tells her mother to put her shoes away to save for her infant brother, it reportedly sold over 100,000 sheet music copies.〔(Something About Popular Songs ), ''Folio'' (July 1882)〕 But its popularity long survived in rural America and became a staple among bluegrass performers. It was first recorded by Riley Puckett in 1926,〔 and later by the "Father of Bluegrass" Bill Monroe (1956),〔Erbsen, Wayne. (Backpocket Bluegrass Song Book ), p. 12 (2007)〕 the Everly Brothers (1958),〔Strong, Martin C. (The essential rock discography ), p.375 (2006)〕 Girls of the Golden West,〔Britton, Alan John. (Uncle Art ), p. 83 (2010)〕 Woody Guthrie, Dolly Parton, and others.〔Rosenberg, Neil V.
* Charles K. Wolfe. (The music of Bill Monroe ), p. 96 (2007)〕
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