Dick Jacobs

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Dick Jacobs is primarily remembered now as an A&R man who helped Jackie Wilson, Buddy Holly, Bobby Darin, and others bridge the gap between pop music and rock-and-roll in the late 1950s and early 1960s, but in between his other work, he created a few items of special interest to space age pop fans. Jacobs spent most of his life working in the heart of the recording business in New York City. After graduating from New York University, he worked for Bregman, Vocco and Conn, a music publishing company. He served in the Army during World War II, then returned to the city and spent several years working as an arranger for Tommy Dorsey. While working for Dorsey became friends with Sy Oliver, another Dorsey arranger, and the pair eventually decided to form a partnership and pursue freelance arranging. Jacobs and Oliver were able to stay very busy with a steady stream of jobs working with numerous vocalists recording for New York studios. In addition, Jacobs was hired as musical director for the television series, "Your Hit Parade." He cleaned out most of the studio orchestra members and replaced them with his own choices, including such stalwarts as Dick Hyman, Don Lamond, Al Caiola, and Jerome Richardson. One of the first to use an integrated orchestra on television, he made sure the producers didn't try to "shoot around" the black players. He joined Coral Records in 1953 as a recording manager and produced a number of the label's biggest acts, including the McGuire Sisters and T

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Themes From Horror Movies

Horror Scream Music

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Electronic Music... It Started Here

Themes From Classic Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films

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The Electro-Sonic Orchestra

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Brain In A Box: The Science Fiction Collection [Disc 1] : Movie Themes

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Monster Movie Soundtrack Music

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Calvert DeForest's Erotic Experience

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Hot Boppin Instrumentals

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The Theme

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Greatest Hits from Outer Space

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Electronic Music... It Started Here [Disc 1]

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