Jack Marshall (composer)

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Jack Marshall
Born	(1921-11-23)November 23, 1921 El Dorado, Kansas United States
Died	September 20, 1973(1973-09-20) (aged 51) Newport Beach, California United States
Occupations	Musician, conductor, composer
Instruments	Guitar
Labels	Capitol Records

Jack Marshall (November 23, 1921 – September 20, 1973) was an American guitarist, conductor, and composer. He is the father of producer-director Frank Marshall and composer Phil Marshall.

Biography

Born in El Dorado, Kansas, Marshall was one of Capitol Records' top producers in the late 1950s and 1960s. He also released a number of albums under his own name that featured his own finger-style jazz guitar playing. He was a close friend of Howard Roberts and Jack Sheldon, and produced several of their best albums on Capitol. He wrote his own arrangements, many of which had a big-band, jazzy sound to them. His most popular arrangement was for Peggy Lee's "Fever", using only percussion, bass and finger snaps, which won him several awards.

Marshall is perhaps best known for composing the theme and incidental music for the 1960s TV series The Munsters. (The theme music was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1965.) He also composed music for the movies The Missouri Traveler, Thunder Road and The Deputy, a western television series starring Henry Fonda, The Investigators and The Debbie Reynolds Show. His interment was at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills Cemetery.

Discography

1959 18th Century Jazz (Capitol)
1959 Soundsville (Capitol)
1960 The Marshall Swings (Capitol)
1962 Sounds Unheard of (Contemporary)
1963 My Son the Surf Nut (Capitol)
1963 Tuff Jack (Capitol)
1966 Sounds with Shelly Manne (Capitol ST-2610)

Bibliography

Marshall, Jack; Laurindo Almeida, Howard Heitmeyer, Al Hendrickson, Barney Kessel, Bill Pitman, Bob Bain, Howard Roberts (1961). West Coast Guitar: Eight Original Solos for Guitar. New York: Leeds Music Corporation. ASIN B0080YPG16. Cite uses deprecated parameters (help)

External links

Grammy Awards, 1965
Jack Marshall at Find a Grave
Jack Marshall at the Internet Movie Database
Jack Marshall at Allmusic

v t e The Munsters

1964 – 1966

Characters	Herman Munster Lily Munster Grandpa Eddie Munster Marilyn Munster Other characters

Production	Chris Hayward Jack Marshall Norman Abbott Joe Connelly Bob Mosher Lawrence Dobkin Earl Bellamy

Media releases	Episodes Munster, Go Home! The Munsters' Revenge

Seasons	First season (1964–1965) Second season (1965–1966)

Related media	The Mini-Munsters The Munsters Today Here Come the Munsters The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas Mockingbird Lane

Other	Munster Koach DRAG-U-LA Munster Mansion

Authority control	VIAF: 88078987 ISNI: 0000 0001 1577 0815 BNF: cb14034701k

Persondata
Name	Marshall, Jack
Alternative names
Short description	Musician, conductor, composer
Date of birth	November 23, 1921
Place of birth	El Dorado, Kansas
Date of death	September 20, 1973
Place of death	Newport Beach, California

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