Jack Nitzsche

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Jack Nitzsche

American musician, composer and record producer

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Buffy Sainte-Marie
Later career
Cowritten with Jack Nitzsche, her husband at the time, and Will Jennings and recorded by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes for the film An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), the song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and won numerous awards, including an…
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Cowritten with Jack Nitzsche, her husband at the time, and Will Jennings and recorded by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes for the film An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), the song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and won numerous awards, including an…
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Gold Star Studios and the “Wall of Sound”
…team that also included arranger Jack Nitzche and a number of first-choice session musicians who were to become the core of the West Coast recording scene for the next 10 years—drummers Earl Palmer and Hal Blaine, bass players Carole Kaye and Larry Knechtal, guitarists Barney Kessel, Tommy Tedesco, and Bill…
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…team that also included arranger Jack Nitzche and a number of first-choice session musicians who were to become the core of the West Coast recording scene for the next 10 years—drummers Earl Palmer and Hal Blaine, bass players Carole Kaye and Larry Knechtal, guitarists Barney Kessel, Tommy Tedesco, and Bill…
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