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- Jack Pleis was born on May 11, 1917 in Pennsylvania, USA. He was a composer, known for The Stripper (1963), The Wild Wild West (1965) and Dusty's Trail (1973). He died on December 5, 1990 in Palm Springs, California, USA.
- Pianist, composer, arranger and conductor. Began with the orchestra of Abe Lyman.
- He produced Hugo Montenegro's album, Colours Of Love (1970).
- By 1948, Pleis was working at the RCA Victor studios on 24th Street, appearing on the cover of the January 1, 1949 issue of Billboard playing piano at the studio's holiday party.
- His surname is pronounced "Pleece" (to rhyme with "fleece").
- In New York, Pleis became successful as a pianist, arranger, conductor, and composer. He was one of Jan Savitt's Top Hatters, playing piano and doing arrangements, a position he left in 1942 to enlist in the Army during World War II.
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