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This series contains scores and documents relating to Lindsey's collaborations - as a composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist - with various popular entertainers. The material primarily pertains to his work in television and on the concert stage. The series primarily comprises scores (conductor or concert, handwritten and typewritten) for arrangements, but also includes a number of original compositions (songs, television cues). Lindsey generally titled his arrangements with the name of the performer it was produced for, and not with the name of the original composer or lyricist. Judging from annotations, Lindsey appears to have performed live from a number of these scores. This series is divided into four subseries, arranged by collaborator. Subseries I.1 and I.2 comprise materials produced for Judy Garland and Merv Griffin respectively - two of Lindsey's closest and most notable collaborators. Subseries I.3 comprises arrangements that Lindsey produced for his wife, Judy Johnson: these arrangements are significantly represented in the Mort Lindsey collection. Subseries I.4 includes collaborations with a range of other performers whose work is less heavily represented within the collection.

This series comprises scores and documents relating to Lindsey's activities as a film composer and arranger. Although Lindsey only worked in the film industry very intermittently, he did so over much of his professional career; thus, this series represents almost fifty years of Lindsey's film music. This includes various arrangements that Lindsey produced for film soundtracks and original cues composed by Lindsey. This series largely consists of manuscript concert/orchestral scores, but also contains some conductor scores and parts. It also includes published sheet music and audio recordings (two commercially released LPs) of songs written by Lindsey for the cinema. Films represented among the scores include: Real Life, Stolen Hours, Forty Pounds of Trouble, The Best Man, My One and Only, Cats Don't Dance, Breath of Seth, and Downfall. This series contains scores for instrumental music that Lindsey composed or arranged for television movies and specials (such as the 1960 NBC special Paris à la Mode). This series also includes documents and correspondence relating to the films The Lonely Stage, Real Life, Forty Pounds of Trouble, and Gay Purr-ee.

This series comprises material from Lindsey's early career as a songwriter. It primarily comprises informally published lead sheets (onionskin and ozalid copies), but also includes recordings of several songs (on 14 lacquer disks), lyric sheets (typed and handwritten, some annotated) and song sketches. Many of these songs were composed before Lindsey had taken his stage name, "Mort Lindsey," and are thus written under his birth name, "Morton Lippman." This series includes settings of several lyricists; however, his collaborations with Jerry Seelen and Artie Malvin are the most strongly represented. There are also a number of songs for which Lindsey furnished both words and music. Most of the lead sheets date from the 1950s and 1960s. The song "Lorna" was originally written for The Judy Garland Show; however, Lindsey appears to have marketed it separately in the way that he did his other songs, and so is included in this series.

This series comprises material relating to a range of Lindsey's other professional activities, such as his orchestrations for the Broadway musical Bajour, his Ph.D. research at Columbia University's Teachers College, his music education work with the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, his forays into classical music, and various live gigs with the Mort Lindsey Orchestra (for banquets and awards ceremonies). This series, which contains material from across the full length of Lindsey's career, primarily comprises scores, spanning a range of formats (parts, full scores, lead sheets, sketches, conductor scores). Many scores in this series relate to Lindsey's ballet The Seven Ages of Man, on which he wrote his Ph.D. thesis (also included in this series). This series also contains scores for various arrangements and compositions that are not identified with a particular performer or project, including sketches for several instrumental themes. Finally, this series includes Lindsey's collection of published scores by other composers - many of which have been annotated, either for performance or in preparation for arrangement.