Charles Mitchell

Musician
Best known for Songwriter

Charles Mitchell was a Louisiana songwriter and bandleader who, with then-Shreveport public safety commissioner Jimmie Davis, wrote the country standard "You Are My Sunshine" in 1939. He also co-wrote “I Dreamed of an Old Love Affair” with Bonnie Dodd.

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  • Co-credited with Jimmie Davis as author of “You Are My Sunshine” (1939), one of the most-recorded songs in American popular music and the official Louisiana state song.
  • Co-wrote “I Dreamed of an Old Love Affair” with Bonnie Dodd.
  • Worked the late-1930s Louisiana radio and dance-hall circuit as a fiddler and bandleader.

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