Mitchell Allan Sherr, best known as
Mitch
Allan, is the former
lead
singer and
guitarist of the band
SR-71.
Biography
Mitch
Allan was born in Baltimore
, Maryland
, the younger
of two children. He graduated from Randallstown
High School
in Baltimore. Mitch also attended
the University of Maryland
at College Park
and graduated with a BA in Mass
Communication with a minor in Political Science.
His original band,
Honor Among Thieves, became a big name
on the Baltimore, MD music scene in the mid 1990's. They later
changes their name to SR-71 when they signed to RCA Records. While
playing the Baltimore music scene, he also ran and produced records
out of Wall of Sound Recording Studio which later became Wright Way
Studios.
As
Honor Among Thieves, the
quartet self-produced an independent album entitled
Grow.
Two songs from this disc would eventually be re-worked and placed
on the SR-71 debut CD,
Now You
See Inside.
With a number two modern rock single, a number four video on
MTV and endless touring,
Now You See
Inside was certified gold in the U.S. within five months of
its release and would go on to sell more than 750,000 copies
worldwide. The single "
Right
Now", written by Mitch Allan, would go on to appear in over a
dozen films including
Loser,
Dude, Where's My
Car?, and
American
Pie. Less than two years later, SR-71's second album,
Tomorrow, written
and co-produced by Allan, was released, producing another top 15
single and pushing their total worldwide sales to over 1 million.
SR-71's third album,
Here We Go Again (2004),
is only available as a Japanese import. Allan had planned to
release his solo album called
Clawing My Way To The
Middle.
In recent years, Mitch has been focusing his attention on song
writing and producing. His most recent success was the Top 5 hit
"
1985" written by Allan, John Allen, and
Jaret Reddick and performed by the
band
Bowling for Soup. Allan
appears in the music video for the song. Originally only available
on the SR-71 Japanese import CD
Here We Go Again, the
Bowling For Soup song "1985" has gone on to be certified Digital
Triple Platinum and holds the
iTunes record
for the most downloads in a single week (over 23,000). It can be
found on the Gold-certified Bowling For Soup album
A Hangover You Don't
Deserve and is part of the compilation
Now That's What I Call
Music! 17.
Mitch's writing/producing credits also include songs for artists
such as
Chris Daughtry,
Faith Hill,
The
Jonas Brothers,
Tokio Hotel,
Takota,
Anberlin,
Monty Are I,
Bo
Bice, and
Marty Casey
& Lovehammers.
Recently, Mitch was nominated for a Latin Grammy for "Song of the
Year" for the
Belinda song
"
Bella Traición". A song
co-written by Mitch and
Kara
DioGuardi entitled "
Lost"
was recorded by
Faith Hill, and released
as her first single from her greatest hits project. In 2009, he
co-wrote with Kara DioGuardi and
Cathy
Dennis the
American Idol winner's
single "
No Boundaries".
An avid poker player, Mitch is also one of the "famous faces" due
to being a regular player on the
online
poker website
Hollywood Poker,
which is run in conjunction with
Ongame
Network.
Discography
With SR-71
Solo
Songwriting/Producing
References
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