• Ben Pollack (June 22, 1903 – June 7, 1971) was an American drummer and bandleader from the mid-1920s through the swing era. His eye for talent led him...
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  • musicologist Andrea Pollack (1961–2019), East German swimmer Andrew Pollack (b. 1966), American school safety activist Ben Pollack (1903–1971), American...
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    York City where he worked with several bands. By 1928 he played for the Ben Pollack band. In the late 1920s, he recorded with such bandleaders and sidemen...
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    Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer, and actor. Pollack is known for directing commercially and...
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  • music he likes best. Benny begins his professional career by joining the Ben Pollack traveling band. Later in New York, where his new band gets a lukewarm...
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    including Ben Pollack's band. In Chicago on December 17, 1926, the Williams Sisters recorded the vocals on ‘He's The Last Word’ with Ben Pollack and his...
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  • an eccentric member of the Ben Pollack orchestra, used. Dick Morgan was the banjo and guitar player in the Ben Pollack band, who also used a realistic...
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    Tormé met Miller in 1942, the meeting facilitated by Tormé's father and Ben Pollack. Tormé and Miller discussed "That Old Black Magic", which was just emerging...
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  • Bigard Cozy Cole Ray Conniff Gene Krupa Frances Langford The Modernaires Ben Pollack Babe Russin Arvell Shaw Trummy Young Universal-International's first...
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    Kings first recorded in 1923. It was written by band members Paul Mares, Ben Pollack, Mel Stitzel, George Brunies and Leon Roppolo. The tune has become a...
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