Biography
Jack Nitzsche was an American composer, arranger, songwriter and record producer. He first gained prominence in the early 1960s as an associate of producer Phil Spector and later worked with artists including the Rolling Stones and Neil Young.
Nitzsche composed scores for numerous films. His credits include The Exorcist (1973), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and Stand by Me (1986). In 1983 he shared the Academy Award for Best Original Song for co-writing 'Up Where We Belong' from An Officer and a Gentleman (1982) with Buffy Sainte-Marie and Will Jennings.
