Jack Marshall (composer)
Jack Wilton Marshall (November 23, 1921 – September 20, 1973) was an American jazz guitarist, composer, arranger, and record producer. He was the father to four children, three sons, producer/director Frank Marshall, composer Phil Marshall, Matt Marshall, and a daughter, Sally Marshall. Jack is also 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 had a varied career as a jazz, rock and classical guitarist and also as a composer, arranger and record producer. He released two solo  albums with drummer Shelly Manne 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", with Joe Mondragon on bass, Shelly Manne on drums, and Howard Roberts adding the iconic finger snaps. Marshall composed the theme and incidental music for the 1960s TV series "The Munsters" and the 1966 tie-in film "Munster, Go Home!" (the theme music was nominated for  a Grammy Award in 1965). He also composed music for the movies "The Missouri Traveler" (1958), "Thunder Road" (1958), "The Giant Gila Monster" (1959) and "Kona Coast" (1968), as well as "The Deputy", a 1959–1961 western television series starring Henry Fonda, and the television series "The Investigators" (1961), "Don't Call Me Charlie!" (1962–1963), and "The Debbie Reynolds Show" (1969–1970).