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- Birth nameAlbert J. Trace
- Al Trace was born on December 25, 1900 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for You Were Never Really Here (2017), That Wonderful Worrisome Feeling (1944) and Rustlers of the Badlands (1945). He died on August 31, 1993 in Sun City West, Arizona, USA.
- Wrote the songs "You Call Everybody Darling" and "If I Knew You Were Coming I'd've Baked A Cake".
- Drummer and vocalist, who started his first band in Chicago in 1933, with subsequent residencies at the Blackhawk Restaurant and the Sherman Hotel.
- His band's theme songs were "Sweet Words and Music" and "Mairzy Doats".
- His popularity peaked in the Chicago area during the height of the Big Band era.
- He composed over 300 songs, some alone and others as a collaborator, most frequently with his brother, Ben Trace, while also writing a considerable number of songs using the pseudonyms Clem Watts or Bob Hart. Among the Ben Trace/Al Trace collaborations was his most successful recording, "You Call Everybody Darlin'", which was a #1 hit in 1948.
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