Jack Nitzsche
American musician and score composer
United States • 1937-04-22 – 2000-08-25
Biography
Bernard Alfred "Jack" Nitzsche ( NEECH-ee; April 22, 1937 – August 25, 2000) was an American musician, arranger, songwriter, composer, and record producer. He came to prominence in the early 1960s as the right-hand-man of producer Phil Spector, and went on to work with the Rolling Stones, Neil Young, and others. He worked extensively in film scores for the films Performance, The Exorcist and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. In 1983, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for co-writing "Up Where We Belong" with Buffy Sainte-Marie.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
The Doors
1967
Harvest
1972
Sticky Fingers
1971
Let It Bleed
1969
After The Gold Rush
1970
Aftermath
1966
Out Of Our Heads
1965
Emotional Rescue
1980
Decade
1977
Rocket To Russia
1977
A Christmas Gift For You From Philles Records
1963
Big Hits (High Tide And Green Grass)
1966
Between The Buttons
1967
Tonight's The Night
1975
Harvest Moon
1992
Southern Accents
1985
Road To Ruin
1978
Neil Young
1969
Time Fades Away
1973
Ringo
1973
December's Children (And Everybody's)
1965
Retrospective - The Best Of Buffalo Springfield
1969
James Gang Rides Again
1970
Got Live If You Want It!
1966
Credited work
9,032 releases · 1,120 albums · active 1960–2026
- Performance · 13,667
- Production · 2,216
- Other credits · 616
- Engineering · 5
Studios: Royce Hall · Quadrafonic Sound Studios · Barking Town Hall · RCA Studios, Hollywood