Jack Nitzsche
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Bernard Alfred Nitzsche (22 April 1937 – 25 August 2000), better known as Jack Nitzsche, was an American singer, arranger, guitarist, composer, and record producer.
He first came to prominence in the late 1950s as producer Phil Spector's right-hand man and then went on to perform with the Rolling Stones and Neil Young among other things.
He has worked on film scores, most notably for films including Performance, The Exorcist, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
He received the Academy Award for Best Original Song for co-writing "Up Where We Belong" in 1983.
Personal life
When he was working for Capitol Records, Nitzsche met his first wife, singer Gracia Ann May. Buffy Sainte-Marie, his second wife, co-wrote the Academy Award-winning song for 1982, "Up Where We Belong," with whom he co-wrote the Academy Award winning song.
He had a brief friendship with actress Carrie Snodgress, who was previously in a relationship with Neil Young. Nitzsche was charged with murder in 1979 after he barged into her house and assaulted her with a handgun. He pleaded guilty to assaulting her and was sentenced to three years in probation.
In 1998, Nitzsche suffered a stroke that ended his life. He died in Hollywood's Queen of Angels - Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in 2000 after being struck by a persistent bronchial disease. His interment took place at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. He was survived by one son.
Life and career
Born in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and raised on a farm in Newaygo, Michigan, Nitzsche's son of German immigrants, moved to Los Angeles in 1955 with the intention of becoming a jazz saxophonist. Sonny Bono, then an A&R executive at Specialty Records, had recruited him as a music copyist. While there, Nitzsche produced a novelty hit dubbed "Bongo Bongo Bongo Bongo." Jackie DeShannon's "Needles and Pins" was written for her by Nitzsche, who later became famous by the Searchers. On August 3, 1963, his instrumental composition "The Lonely Surfer" made it to the Cash Box top 100 and debuted at No. 2. 37 years old.
He was arranger and conductor for producer Phil Spector's hits and orchestrated the Wall of Sound for over half Spector's hits, perhaps best represented by Ike and Tina Turner's "River Deep, Mountain High." In The Wrecking Crew, Earl Palmer, Leon Russell, Roy Caton, Glen Campbell, Carol Kaye, and Hal Blaine, the backing band for many pop artists including the Beach Boys and the Monkees, Nitzsche performed with Earl Palmer, Leon Russell, Roy Caton, Roy Caton, Glen Campbell, Glen Campbell, Carol Kaye, and Hal Blaine. The title song of Doris Day's film Move Over, Darling, which was a smashing hit on the pop charts of the time, was produced by Nitzsche.
When arranging the music for the T.A.M.I., I.E. He saw the Rolling Stones on their album in 1964 and went on to play keyboards. Now! (The Rolling Stones No. 1) "Out of Our Heads, Aftermath, and Between the Buttons, as well as "Paint It, Black" and "Let's Spend the Night Together," are two of the United Kingdom's most popular songs; "You Can't Always Get What You Want" was also written in the UK; "You Can't Always Get What You Want" is a British song. Ry Cooder, a seminal influence on the band's 1969-1973 style, was introduced in 1968.
On several Rolling Stones albums, he was credited as the "Nitzsche-phone" player. Andrew Loog Oldham, the former Rolling Stones boss, outlined the credit in an obituary on Gadfly Online:
He worked with Neil Young, beginning with the Buffalo Springfield's "Expecting to Fly" series. In addition, there's a song called "On the Way Home." Young's eponymous solo debut with David Briggs co-produced by Nitzsche and Cooder in 1968. Young recruited Nitzsche for The Stray Gators, the session players behind Young On Harvest (1972) and Time Fades Away (1973), as he went from baroque to hard rock.
Throughout the 1970s, Nitzsche performed electric piano with Crazy Horse. Despite frequent clashes with Billy Talbot and Ralph Molina, Nitzsche remained with the band after Young left in 1970. Nitzsche performed on "Crow Jane Lady" on the band's 1971 self-titled debut album and appeared on the band's lead vocals. After the album's commercial demise, he left Crazy Horse.
Though he was still active in the 1970s, he began to suffer from depression and heroin use. During the 1973 support tour for Harvest that resulted in Time Fades Away, his relationship with Young began to deteriorate. During rehearsals, drummer Kenny Buttrey requested a $100,000 to compensate for missing session work, causing Nitzsche (with the help of bassist Tim Drummond) to convince Young to extend this salary to the other band members. Despite Young reluctantly agreed, Nitzsche believes that Young Never got over it. Nitzsche often spewed profanities into his vocal mike (inducing Young's sound engineers to unblock it) and was often chastised with David Crosby, who joined the tour's final dates to assist with vocal harmonies. The two guys were dissatisfied for many years and collaborated only occasionally after he publicly mocked Young in a 1974 interview. After recording a song criticizing executive Mo Ostin, later this year, he was dropped from the Reprise roster. It culminated in his arrest in 1979 for reportedly breaking into the home of and then raping ex-girlfriend Carrie Snodgress, formerly Young's companion. Snodgress was treated at the hospital for a bone fracture, cuts and bruises, and had 18 stitches. The accusation of rape by instrumentation (which is a five-year term) was dismissed.
Graham Parker's album Squeezing Out Sparks was released in 1979 by Nitzsche. Willy DeVille albums debuted in the late 1970s: Cabretta (1977), Return to Magenta (1978) and Coup de Grâce (1981). DeVille, according to Nitzsche, was the best singer he had ever worked with.
In the mid-1970s, Nitzsche began focusing more on film than pop music, becoming one of Hollywood's most prolific film orchestrators of the period. In 1983, he received the Academy Award for co-writing "Up Where We Belong" (from the 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman) with Will Jennings and Buffy Sainte-Marie. During his career, Nitzsche worked on film scores, including contributions to Monkee's film Head, the clercist's theme song (1973) and the soundtracks for Performance (1978), The Razor's Edge (1984), and Starman (1984). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Outstanding Original Score and a Grammy for his contribution to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, his first of many studio projects with Scott Mathews.
After brandishing a gun at some youths who had stolen his helmet in the mid-1990s, an inebriated Nitzsche was seen being arrested in Hollywood in a CBS episode Cops. He was seen claiming to be an Academy Award winner while attempting to explain himself to the detained officers. In 1997, he expressed an interest in releasing a Comeback album for Link Wray, but it didn't happen because of their mutually declining health.
Nitzsche intended to work with Mercury Rever On All Is Dream in 2000. Nitzsche had intended to produce and orchestrate the album, but the band's 1998 album Deserter's Songs was unveiled, but the musician died before the show.