Jack Marshall (composer)


Jack Wilton Marshall was an American jazz guitarist, composer, arranger, and record producer. He was the father of director Frank Marshall and composer Phil Marshal and the cousin of classical guitarist Christopher Parkening.

Biography

Born in El Dorado, Kansas, Marshall was one of Capitol Records' top producers in the late 1950s and 1960s. He released a number of solo albums that featured his fingerstyle jazz guitar playing. He was a friend of Howard Roberts and Jack Sheldon and produced several of their albums for Capitol. He wrote his own arrangements, many with a big-band sound to them. He was credited with the arrangement for Peggy Lee's "Fever", although it is believed that Lee herself was primarily responsible for that arrangement, while it was Marshall who arranged the other tunes recorded on the session.
Marshall composed the theme and incidental music for the 1960s TV series The Munsters and the 1966 tie-in film Munster, Go Home!. He also composed music for the movies The Missouri Traveler, Thunder Road, The Giant Gila Monster and Kona Coast, as well as The Deputy, a western television series starring Henry Fonda, The Investigators, and The Debbie Reynolds Show.

Discography

As leader