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Lew Pollack
Birth Date
June 16, 1895
Birth Place
New York, NY, United States
Death Date
January 18, 1946
Death Place
Hollywood, California, United States

Lew Pollack  Biography

Wrote themes for silent films and later sound film scores including “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm”

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. He also wrote full scores for sound films including Pigskin ParadeOne in a MillionLife Begins n CollegeRebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and Captain January.

Collaborating with songwriters such as Sidney Mitchell, Erno Rapee, Paul Francis WebsterSidney ClareNed Washington, Ray Gilbert and Jack Yellen, co-writing the music for “My Yiddishe Mama”.

Highlights from the Pollack catalog include “Charmaine”, “Diane”, “Angela Mia”, “That’s a-Plenty”, “Two Cigarettes in the Dark”, “In the Middle of a Kiss”, “I’m Missin’ Mammy’s KissinԔ, “Weep No More My Mammy”, “Early Bird”, “Moonshine Over Kentucky”, “At the Codfish Ball”, “One in a Million”, “Alone With You”, “Miss Annabelle Lee”, “Reap the Wild Wind”, “Sing, Baby, Sing”, “The Right Somebody to Love” and “Cheatin’ On Me”.

Lew Pollack died in Hollywood, California on January 18, 1946.


23 Songs Composed by Lew Pollack

 23 Tracks Composed   Add songs to playlist
  • A Yiddishe Mame
    3:31
    Instrumental
  • A Yiddishe Mame
    3:12
    Yiddish
  • A Yiddishe Mame
    4:46
    Yiddish
  • A Yiddishe Mame
    3:31
    Yiddish
  • A Yiddishe Mame
    4:44
    Yiddish
  • A Yiddishe Mame
    5:22
    Yiddish
  • A Yiddishe Mame
    3:10
    Yiddish
  • A Yiddishe Mame
    2:24
    Instrumental
  • A Yiddishe Mame
    3:25
    Instrumental
  • A Yiddishe Mame
    4:17
    Yiddish
  • A Yiddishe Mame
    4:08
    Yiddish
  • A Yiddishe Mame
    3:32
    Yiddish
  • A Yiddishe Mame
    4:34
    Yiddish
  • A Yiddishe Mame
    3:49
    Instrumental
  • A Yiddishe Mame
    3:25
    Instrumental
  • Sholem Aleikhem
    4:25
    Hebrew
  • Sholem Aleikhem
    2:16
    Hebrew
  • Sholem Aleikhem
    0:40
    Hebrew
  • Sholem Aleikhem
    2:15
    Instrumental
  • Sholem Aleikhem
    2:13
    Hebrew
  • Sholem Aleikhem
    1:57
    Hebrew
  • Sholem Aleikhem
    6:12
    Instrumental
  • Vi Ahin Zol Ikh Gheih - A Yiddishe Mame
    3:36
    Yiddish

3 thoughts on “Kaminos”

  1. Jim Borman says:

    Was Nicholas related to Alexander Saslavsky who married Celeste Izolee Todd?

  2. Mark Goldman says:

    Anyone have a contact email for Yair Klinger or link to score for Ha-Bayta?

  3. allan wolinsky says:

    wish to have homeland concert video played on the big screen throughout North America.

    can organize here in Santa Barbara California.

    contacts for this needed and any ideas or suggestions welcomed.

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