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Eddie Pola

real name Sidney Edward Pollacsek

Eddie Pola is credited on 646 releases across 238 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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Biography

American actor, radio/television producer and songwriter.
Born June 23, 1907 in New York, New York, USA.
Died November 3, 1995 in Jackson County, Oregon, USA.
Pola is best known as co-writing the Christmas standard, "It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year", first recorded by Andy Williams in 1963 (co-written by George Wyle). The song has charted 19 times alone in the U.S. & the U.K.--15 of those from Williams.
Pola charted overall forty times in the U.S. and U.K. combined: " I Said My Pajamas (And Put on My Pray'rs)" by Tony Martin & Fran Warren hit #3 in 1950 (co-written by Wylie) and "Quicksilver" by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters hit #6 that same year (co-written by Irving Taylor and Wyle).

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