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James Nelson

James Nelson is credited on 1,065 releases across 356 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1958–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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1,065

Pressings credited

356

Albums

Decades active

166

In collections

Biography

James M. Falkinburg (September 25, 1932 – June 18, 2014), known in the entertainment industry as James "Jim" Nelson, was an American sound editor, film producer and post-production supervisor. As a sound editor, Nelson worked on many of the iconic films and television programs of the 1950s, '60s and '70s, including Rock Around the Clock, The Monkees, the beach party films, The Brady Bunch, Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces and The Exorcist. In total, he edited the sound effects for over 100 films and 38 television programs comprising more than 1,700 episodes, as well as several made-for-TV movies, documentaries and television specials. Expanding into film production in the 1970s, Nelson helped George Lucas in launching Industrial Light & Magic and took part in the making of the first Star Wars. Nelson worked in a production capacity on 20 other films, including The China Syndrome, Ghostbusters and Big Trouble in Little China.

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