Jack Nitzsche

(1937-2000)

American musician, arranger, songwriter, composer and record producer

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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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Born	22 April 1937 Chicago, Illinois
Died	25 August 2000 (aged 63) Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
Zodiac	Taurus
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Gracia Ann May - · · m. 1959; div. 1978 info edit

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Buffy Sainte-Marie 1941- · American musician · m. 1982; div. 2000 info edit

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