Biography
Jimmie Haskell (born Sheridan Pearlman; November 7, 1926 – February 4, 2016) was an American composer and arranger for motion pictures and a wide variety of popular artists, including Elvis Presley, Neil Diamond, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Steely Dan, Billy Joel, and the Everly Brothers. His career spanned over six decades. Haskell was born in Brooklyn, New York. He entered the music business in the 1950s doing arrangements for Imperial Records. His first professional arrangement was a chart of "Nature Boy", sold to Lionel Hampton. He became the arranger of choice for Ricky Nelson, arranging and producing around 75 records for the artist, including such hits as "There's Nothing I Can Say" and "Hello Mary Lou". In 1960, he accompanied Elvis Presley on accordion on the "G.I. Blues" soundtrack. Almost four decades later, he provided arrangements on Sheryl Crow's album The Globe Sessions.
In 1960, Haskell entered the motion picture soundtrack industry as an uncredited orchestrator for Dimitri Tiomkin's The Alamo. The following year he composed his first score, Love in a Goldfish Bowl. His composition "The Silly Song" became the theme song of American television's The Hollywood Squares. He composed a variety of film scores such as A.C. Lyles' Westerns and arranging "Weird Al" Yankovic's title song for Spy Hard.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Haskell was the arranger of choice for The Grass Roots. He arranged the signature string section on Chicago's song "If You Leave Me Now", for which he won a Grammy award, and also provided horn and string arrangements for Blondie's 1980 album Autoamerican, including for the US and UK No. 1 hit "The Tide Is High". In the mid-1970s, Haskell worked with the band Steely Dan, providing orchestration on their 1974 album Pretzel Logic and arrangements and horn on their 1975 album Katy Lied. In 2009, well into his eighties, he provided "a lovely, understated string arrangement" on David Rawlings' album A Friend of a Friend.In addition to composing and arranging, Haskell would often act as conductor and selected the musicians used.His birthday is widely reported as 1936 because he lied about his age, figuring he would get more work if people thought he was younger. A statement from his daughter published by The Musicians Union of Los Angeles gives the correct birthday in 1926.
Filmography
all 76
Movies 75
TV Shows 1
Hoodwinked (1989)
She's Back (1989)
Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami (1988)
Kick or Die (1987)
Cathy (1987)
Rainy Day Friends (1985)
The Vegas Strip War (1984)
Jealousy (1984)
Carpool (1983)
Dixie: Changing Habits (1983)
High Hopes: The Capra Years (1982)
Portrait of a Showgirl (1982)
Twirl (1981)
The Star Maker (1981)
Leave 'Em Laughing (1981)
Crash Island (1981)
Hard Country (1981)
Goldie and the Boxer Go to Hollywood (1981)
A Gun in the House (1981)
Mark, I Love You (1980)
The Jericho Mile (1980)
The Jayne Mansfield Story (1980)
A Cry for Love (1980)
For the Love of It (1980)
Animalympics (1980)
The $5.20 an Hour Dream (1980)
Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders II (1980)
Goldie and the Boxer (1979)
The Streets of L.A. (1979)
Mirror, Mirror (1979)
When Hell Was in Session (1979)
Before and After (1979)
Guyana: Crime of the Century (1979)
The Seeding of Sarah Burns (1979)
The Child Stealer (1979)
Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story (1979)
Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (1979)
Some Kind of Miracle (1979)
A Christmas to Remember (1978)
See How She Runs (1978)
Hughes and Harlow: Angels in Hell (1978)
Just a Little Inconvenience (1977)
Joyride (1977)
Death Game (1977)
The Ghost of Cypress Swamp (1977)
Lipstick (1976)
The City That Forgot About Christmas (1974)
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974)
Easter Is (1974)
When the North Wind Blows (1974)
Outrage (1973)
Night of the Lepus (1972)
The Honkers (1972)
Josie's Castle (1971)
Walls of Fire (1971)
Christmas Is (1970)
The Tool Box (1970)
The Thousand Plane Raid (1969)
Buckskin (1968)
Arizona Bushwhackers (1968)
Rogue's Gallery (1968)
Fort Utah (1967)
Hostile Guns (1967)
Red Tomahawk (1967)
Waco (1966)
Johnny Reno (1966)
Apache Uprising (1965)
Wild on the Beach (1965)
Love and Kisses (1965)
Town Tamer (1965)
I'll Take Sweden (1965)
Black Spurs (1965)
Surf Party (1964)
The Gun Hawk (1963)
Love in a Goldfish Bowl (1961)
The Jericho Mile
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GenderMale
Birthday1926-11-07
Deathday2016-02-04 (89 years old)
Birth NameSheridan Pearlman
Birth PlaceBrooklyn, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
AwardsGrammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals
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