Mitch Allan

Mitch Allan
Mitch Allan in his studio Mitch Allan in his studio
Background information
Birth name	Mitchell Allan Scherr
Born	Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Genres	Alternative rock punk rock pop punk power pop
Occupations	Record producer songwriter musician
Instruments	Vocals guitar bass
Years active	1996–present
Labels	Sony BMG RCA

Mitch Allan (born Mitchell Allan Scherr) is an American record producer, songwriter and musician. He has written and produced songs for artists such as Demi Lovato, Miley Cyrus, Jason Derulo, Pitbull, Fifth Harmony, Kelly Clarkson, Simple Plan, Faith Hill, Selena Gomez, Bowling for Soup, Joe Cocker, selling over 20 million units and garnering multiple hit records, including three top five singles.

Allan is the lead singer and guitarist of rock band SR-71, as well as the lead guitarist, producer and backing vocalist of alternative project Satellite.

Production and songwriting

Known primarily as a recording artist, Allan's songwriting career began when a song he'd written for his band SR-71 called "1985" was recorded and released by pop-punk band Bowling for Soup in 2004. The track was a top 5 hit, becoming certified Platinum and holding the record for the most iTunes downloads in a single week at the time.

In 2007 Allan was nominated for a Latin Grammy when the Belinda song he co-penned with Kara DioGuardi, "Bella Traición," received a Song of the Year nomination. That same year, another song written with DioGuardi, entitled "Lost," was recorded by Faith Hill and released as the first single from her greatest hits project. The track would find success at AC radio, ultimately spending 21 weeks on the radio charts.

In 2015 Allan had is first World Wide #1 Pop hit co-writing Jason Derulo's "Want To Want Me." That same year he cowrote "Heartbeat Song" for Kelly Clarkson, which was nominated for a Grammy Award.

When Allan partnered with writer-producer wunderkind Jason Evigan under the moniker "The Suspex", the duo found career-making success. Together they cowrote and produced Demi Lovato’s "Heart Attack," which reached #4 on the Mainstream Top 40 and became certified double platinum. The Suspex are currently working on tracks for artists such as Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, Kelly Clarkson, Kat Graham, Victoria Justice, Fifth Harmony, Kylie Minogue, and Sia, and on his own, Allan is collaborating with Boys Like Girls' Martin Johnson, Scott Stapp, Demi Lovato, Kelly Clarkson, Delta Goodrem, Satellite, Melissa Etheridge, Andy Grammer, Simple Plan, and Hollywood Records artists Beatrice Miller, Hilary Duff and Bridgit Mendler.

Early life and career

Mitch Allan was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the younger of two children. He graduated from Randallstown High School in Baltimore, attending the University of Maryland at College Park and graduating with a BA in mass communication and a minor in political science.

Allan began playing music in a band called SR-71, originally known as Honor Among Thieves, which generated buzz in the Baltimore rock scene in the mid-1990s and was subsequently signed to RCA Records. The band's debut album, Now You See Inside, earned them a number two modern rock single, a number four music video on MTV, and a gold certification in the U.S. within five months of its release, which would grow to more than 750,000 copies sold worldwide. The single "Right Now," written by Allan, appeared 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.

Selected discography

With SR-71

• Now You See Inside (2000)
• Tomorrow (2002)
• Here We Go Again (Japan-2004) released (USA-2010)

With Satellite

• Ring the Bells (July 2011)
• Calling Birds ( February 19, 2013)

Solo

• Clawing My Way to the Middle (TBA)

Songwriting/producing

Year	Artist	Album title	Label	Credits
2000	SR-71	Now You See Inside	RCA	Writer ("Politically Correct," "Go Away", "Non-Toxic", "Right Now," "Another Night Alone", "Alive")
2002		Tomorrow		Producer, writer (all songs)
2004	Bowling for Soup	A Hangover You Don't Deserve	Jive/Zomba	Writer ("1985")
	SR-71	Here We Go Again	Crown Japan	Producer, writer
2005	Bo Bice	The Real Thing	RCA/19	Producer, writer ("My World")
	Lindsay Lohan	A Little More Personal (Raw)	Casablanca	Writer ("Fastlane")
	Monty Are I	The Red Shift	Island	Producer
2006	Belinda	Utopía	EMI Televisa Music	Producer, writer ("Bella Traición", End of The Day, and "Alguien Más")
	Bowling for Soup	The Great Burrito Extortion Case	Jive/Zomba	Writer ("Much More Beautiful Person," feat. Lesley Roy)
	Cowboy Mouth	Voodoo Shoppe	Verve Forecast	Producer, writer ("Joe Strummer")
	Daughtry	Daughtry	RCA/19	Writer ("All These Lives")
	Lovehammers	Marty Casey and Lovehammers	Epic	Producer, writer ("Casualty")
	JParis	Call It What You Want	Emanon	Producer, writer "Here We Go Again"
2007	Alex Band	The Final Season Soundtrack		Writer (Coming Home)
	Backstreet Boys	Unbreakable	Jive	Producer, writer ("Something That I Already Know")
	Hilary Duff	Dignity	Hollywood	Writer ("Happy")
	Faith Hill	The Hits	Warner Bros. Nashville	Writer ("Lost")
2008	Anberlin	New Surrender	Universal Republic	Writer ("Soft Skeletons")
	Diego González	Indigo	EMI	Producer, writer ("Losing Me")
	Jonas Brothers	Camp Rock	Walt Disney	Producer, writer ("Play My Music")
	Lesley Roy	Unbeautiful	Jive	Producer, writer ("Make It Back")
2009	Kris Allen/Adam Lambert	"No Boundaries"	Sony Music	Co-writer
	Daughtry	Leave This Town	RCA/19	Writer ("Learn My Lesson" and "One Last Chance")
	Every Avenue	Picture Perfect	Fearless	Producer
	Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez	Princess Protection Program	Walt Disney	Producer ("One and the Same")
	Hannah Montana	Hannah Montana 3		Producer, writer ("He Could Be the One" and "Don't Wanna Be Torn")
	Jessie James	Jessie James	Mercury	Producer, writer ("Wanted")
2010	David Archuleta	The Other Side of Down	Jive/19	Producer, writer ("Good Place")
	Bowling for Soup	Fishin' for Woos	Que-So Records/Brando Records	Producer, writer ("Dear Megan Fox")
	Demi Lovato	Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam	Walt Disney	Producer, writer ("Brand New Day")
	Katharine McPhee	Unbroken	Verve Forecast	Writer ("Had It All")
	Hannah Montana	Hannah Montana Forever	Walt Disney	Producer, writer ("I'll Always Remember You")
2011	Ross Lynch	Austin & Ally Soundtrack		Writer ("A Billion Hits")
2012	Jenilee Reyes	Shake It Up: Live 2 Dance		Producer, writer ("Where's the Party")
2013	Big Time Rush	24/Seven	Nick/Columbia	Producer, writer ("Like Nobody's Around")
	Fifth Harmony	Better Together	Epic/Syco	Producer, writer ("Miss Movin' On")
	Selena Gomez	Stars Dance	Hollywood	Producer, writer ("Save the Day")
	Demi Lovato	Demi	Hollywood	Producer, writer ("Heart Attack" and "Two Pieces")
	Satellite	Calling Birds	Descendant Records/Sony Music	Producer, writer (all songs)
	Zendaya	Zendaya	Hollywood	Producer, writer ("Bottle You Up")
2014	Alexa Curtis	"My Girls"	Universal	Producer, writer
	GRL	GRL (EP)	Kemosabe/RCA	Producer, writer ("Don't Talk About Love")
	Jena Irene	"We Are One"	Interscope	Producer, writer
	Caleb Johnson	Testify	Interscope/19	Producer, writer ("Change")
	Justice Crew	Live by the Words	Sony Music Australia	Producer, writer ("Fly")
	R5	TBA	Hollywood	Producer, writer (misc. tracks)
	Scott Stapp	Proof of Life	Wind Up	Writer ("Break Out")
2015	Kelly Clarkson	Piece by Piece	RCA/19	Co-writer ("Heartbeat Song")
	Jason Derulo	Everything Is 4	Beluga Heights/Atlantic	Co-writer ("Want to Want Me")
	Adam Lambert	The Original High	Warner Bros.	Co-writer ("Things I Didn't Say")
	R5	Sometime Last Night	Hollywood Records	Co-writer ("Do It Again", "I Can't Say I'm In Love" and "Nine Lives")
	Demi Lovato	Confident	Island/Hollywood	Vocal producer ("Old Ways", "Waitin for You" and "Wildfire")

External links

• SR-71 official website