Lew Pollack
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Career
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); and "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, among others. He died of a heart attack in Hollywood at age 50.[5]
Recognition
Lew Pollack was elected to the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.
References
External links
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- Script error: No such module "String". at the Internet Broadway DatabaseTemplate:Edit at WikidataTemplate:Wikidata check
- Lew Pollack's entry at the Songwriters' Hall of Fame
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- Free scores by Lew Pollack at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- Lew Pollack recordings at the Discography of American Historical Recordings.
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