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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 . 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 .
- July 16 1895, New York City, New York, United States
- January 18 1946 (aged 50), Hollywood, Los Angeles, United States
Lew Pollack was born in New York City on June 16, 1895. He was educated at DeWitt Clinton High School and performed as a boy soprano in the Walter Damrosch choral group. In his early professional career, Pollack was a singer and pianist in vaudeville acts and began writing theme music for silent films including What Price Glory and Seventh Heaven.
Charmaine (song) " Charmaine " is a popular song written by Ernö Rapée and Lew Pollack. The song was written in 1926 and published in 1927. However, Desmond Carrington on his BBC Radio 2 programme marked the song's writing as being in 1913 .
- Decca F11559
- 26 January 1963
- October 10, 1962
"That's A Plenty" - Lew Pollack & Ray Gilbert's 1914 up-tempo ragtime number adopted by the Dixieland jazz genre & popularised by the New Orleans Rhythm King...
Composer: Lew Pollack. Lyricist: Ray Gilbert. " That's a Plenty " is a 1914 ragtime piano composition by Lew Pollack. Lyrics by Ray Gilbert (born 1912) were added decades later. Several popular vocal versions have been recorded, but it is more often performed as an instrumental.
- 1914
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Lew Pollack (16 June 1895, New York City – 18 January 1946, Hollywood, Calif.) was an American composer. He was a boy soprano in Walter Damrosch’s choral group and later appeared as a singer and pianist in vaudeville. He composed theme music for several silent films, along with a number of popular songs.
