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Jack Nitzsche

American musician and score composer

Chicago, United States • 1937-04-22 – 2000-08-25

Jack Nitzsche is credited on 6,492 releases across 1,126 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1960–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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6,492

Pressings credited

1,126

Albums

7

Decades active

2,397

In collections

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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Credited work

6,492 releases · 1,126 albums · active 1960–2026

  • Performance · 9,762
  • Production · 1,516
  • Other credits · 252
  • Engineering · 5

Studios: Royce Hall · Quadrafonic Sound Studios · Barking Town Hall · Broken Arrow Studio #2

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