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Lew Pollack (June 16, 1895 – January 18, 1946) was an American song composer and musician active during the 1920s and the 1930s.
Lew Pollack | |
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| Born | July 16, 1895 New York City, New York, United States |
| Died | January 18, 1946 (aged 50) Hollywood, Los Angeles, United States |
Pollack was born in New York City[1] where he went to DeWitt Clinton High School and was active as a boy soprano in a choral group headed by Walter Damrosch.
Starting out as a singer and pianist in vaudeville acts he began writing theme music for silent films before collaborating with others on popular songs.[2] In 1914, he wrote "That's a Plenty", a rag that became an enduring Dixieland standard.
Pollack composed the music for several Broadway musicals, including The Whirl of New York and The Mimic World among others.
Among his best-known songs are "Charmaine" and "Diane" with Ernö Rapée, "Miss Annabelle Lee",[3] "My Yiddishe Momme" with Jack Yellen, made famous by Sophie Tucker, "Two Cigarettes in the Dark", "Alone with You" (from Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), "At the Codfish Ball"[4] (featured in the Shirley Temple movie "Captain January" with Buddy Ebsen, and later the title of a Mad Men television episode). He also collaborated with Paul Francis Webster, Sidney Clare, Sidney Mitchell, and Ned Washington amongst others. He died of a heart attack in Hollywood at age 50.[5]
Lew Pollack was elected to the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.
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