Poley McClintock

James Roland "Poley" McClintock (September 22, 1900, Tyrone, Pennsylvania^[1] — January 6, 1980, East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania) ^[2] was a member of Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians, a popular jazz band of the 1920s.^[3]

As a child, McClintock was a neighbor of Waring in Tyrone, Pennsylvania. The two performed together in the Boy Scout Fife and Bugle Corps, with Waring as drum major and McClintock as drummer.^[4] In 1915, he and Waring's brother, Tom, formed a banjo group, The Waring-McClintock Snap Orchestra.^[5]

His characteristic vocal inflections are heard frequently in many of the Pennsylvanians' novelty tunes, singing his parts in a low-range frog-like croak.^[6] It is widely believed that the part sung by Tony Burrows in The Pipkins' 1970 novelty record "Gimme Dat Ding" was intended as a tribute to McClintock.^{[citation needed]}

McClintock was married to silent film actress Yvette Mitchell.^[5]