Ben Trace

{{short description|American songwriter}}{{Infobox musical artist | name = Ben Trace | image = | image_size = | landscape =  | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Benjamin Louis Feinberg | alias = | birth_date = {{birth date|1897|10|15|df=yes}} | birth_place = | origin = Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1973|07|07|1897|10|15|df=yes}} | death_place = | genre = | occupation = Songwriter | instrument = | years_active =  | label = | associated_acts = Al Trace | website =  }} '''Benjamin Louis Trace''' (''né'' '''Feinberg'''; 15 October 1897 – 7 July 1973) was an American songwriter who, from the 1910s through the 1950s, in collaboration with his younger bandleader brother, Al, wrote lyrics to hundreds of popular songs.<ref>{{Cite book |last=American Society of Composers |first=Authors and Publishers |url=http://archive.org/details/ascapbiographica00ameri |title=ASCAP biographical dictionary |last2=Jaques Cattell Press |date=1980 |publisher=New York : R.R. Bowker Co. |others=The Archive of Contemporary Music |isbn=978-0-8352-1283-0 |pages=508}}</ref>

== Career == A native of Chicago, Ben Trace wrote the songs which were primarily performed by Al Trace and His Orchestra, including their most successful recording, "You Call Everybody Darlin'", which became a #1 hit in 1948.{{Citation needed|date=November 2025}}

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