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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 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" 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.
The brass jazz it up this week with That's A'Plenty! L. Russell Campbell (trumpet), Kevin Finamore (trumpet), Kevin Haseltine (horn), Barry Hearn (trombone) and Matt Good (tuba) ...more.
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"Diane or "I'm in Heaven When I See You Smile" (1927) by Lew Pollack and Erno Rapee. The Bachelors had a hit with it in 1964, but it's a better song than the...
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"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.
Lew Pollack was born on 16 June 1895 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for The Island (2005), The Green Mile (1999) and Matchstick Men (2003). He was married to Helen Martin Mellette (dancer). He died on 18 January 1946 in Hollywood, California, USA.
