James Roland "Poley" McClintock (September 22, 1900 in Tyrone, PA -January, 1980, in East Stroudsburg, PA) was a member of

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's Pennsylvanians, a popular

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band of the 1920s. As a child, McClintock was a neighbor of Waring in

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. The two performed together in the Boy Scout Fife and Bugle Corps, with Waring as drum major and McClintock as drummer. In 1915, he and Waring's brother, Tom, formed a banjo group, The Waring-McClintock Snap Orchestra. His characteristic vocal inflections are heard frequently in many of the Pennsylvanians' novelty tunes, singing his parts in a low-range frog-like croak. It is widely believed that the part sung by

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in The Pipkins' 1970 novelty record "Gimme Dat Ding" was intended as a tribute to McClintock. McClintock was married to silent film actress Yvette Mitchell.

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