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Ben Pollack

Ben Pollack (born June 22, 1903 in Chicago, Illinois, USA - died June 7, 1971, Palm Springs, California, USA) was an American jazz drummer, singer and bandleader. He worked with artists like [a=Jack Teagarden], [a=Kay Starr], [a=Benny Goodman], [a=Eddie Lang] and [a=Joe Venuti], to name a few. In 1945 he founded his own record label [l=Jewel] and employed [a=Henry Stone] as an executive for A&R.