Lew Pollack | |
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| Born | July 16, 1895 New York City, New York, US |
| Died | January 18, 1946 (aged 50) Hollywood, Los Angeles, US |
Lew Pollack (June 16, 1895 – January 18, 1946) was an American song composer and musician active during the 1920s and the 1930s.
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]
Lew Pollack was elected to the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.
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