Bernard Alfred Nitzsche (April 22, 1937 – August 25, 2000), known professionally as Jack Nitzsche, was an American musician, arranger, songwriter, composer and record producer. He first came to prominence in the late 1950s as the right-hand-man of producer Phil Spector and went on to work with the Rolling Stones and Neil Young, among others. He also worked extensively in film scores, notably for films such as 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“.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and raised on a farm in Newaygo, Michigan, Nitzsche moved to Los Angeles in 1955 with ambitions of becoming a jazz saxophonist. He was hired by Sonny Bono, who was at the time an A&R (artists and repertory) executive at Specialty Records, as a music copyist. While there Nitzshe wrote a novelty hit called Bongo Bongo Bongo Nitsche wrote with Bono the song “Needles and Pins” for Jackie DeShannon, later recorded by the SearchersHis instrumental composition “The Lonely Surfer”, entered Cash Box on August 3, 1963 and reached No. 37.

He became arranger and conductor for producer Phil Spector, and orchestrated the Wall of Sound for the song “River Deep, Mountain High” by Ike and Tina Turner. Nitzsche worked with Earl Palmer, Leon Russell, Roy Caton, Glen Campbell, Carol Kaye and Hal Blaine in The Wrecking Crew, the backing band for many pop acts such as the Beach Boys and the Monkees. Nitzsche arranged the title song of Doris Day‘s Move Over, Darling that was a successful single on the pop charts of the time.

While organizing the music for the T.A.M.I. Show television special in 1964, he met the Rolling Stones and went on to play keyboards on their albums The Rolling Stones, Now! (The Rolling Stones No. 2 in the UK), Out of Our Heads, Aftermath and Between the Buttons as well as on their hit singles “Paint It, Black” and “Let’s Spend the Night Together“; he also wrote the choral arrangements for “You Can’t Always Get What You Want“. In 1968 he introduced the band to slide guitarist Ry Cooder, a seminal influence on the band’s 1969–1973 style.

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