{"id":7749,"date":"2019-12-31T22:52:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T03:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=7749"},"modified":"2019-12-31T22:52:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T03:52:22","slug":"jack-sheldon-famed-trumpeter-and-merv-griffin-sidekick-dies-at-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/31\/jack-sheldon-famed-trumpeter-and-merv-griffin-sidekick-dies-at-88\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Sheldon, Famed Trumpeter and Merv Griffin Sidekick, Dies at 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7750\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7750\" style=\"width: 684px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7750\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jack_Sheldon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"684\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jack_Sheldon.jpg 684w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jack_Sheldon-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jack_Sheldon-560x377.jpg 560w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jack_Sheldon-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jack_Sheldon-160x108.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jack Sheldon at Palo Alto Jazz Festival 9\/26\/87<br \/>\u00a9 Brian McMillen \/ brianmcmillen@hotmail.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jack Sheldon, the extraordinary West Coast jazz trumpeter and singer who played &#8220;The Shadow of Your Smile&#8221; for the big screen, served as Merv Griffin&#8217;s sidekick and voiced characters on Schoolhouse Rock!, died Friday, his longtime manager, Dianne Jimenez, reported. He was 88.<\/p>\n<p>Sheldon died on December 27, 2019. News of his death had emerged the morning of December 31 but was not confirmed until several hours later. A memorial service is scheduled for 2PM on January 10, 2020, at Forest Lawn in Cypress, California.<\/p><div id=\"morty-2329514062\" class=\"morty-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jack Sheldon was a &#8220;bebop&#8221; and West Coast jazz trumpeter, singer, and actor. He was a trumpet player and the music director on <em>The Merv Griffin Show<\/em>, as well as the voice heard on several episodes of the educational music television series <em>Schoolhouse Rock!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sheldon was born in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. He originally became known through his participation in the West Coast jazz movement of the 1950s, performing and recording with such figures as Stan Kenton, Art Pepper, Gerry Mulligan, and Curtis Counce. Sheldon played the trumpet, sang, and performed on <em>The Merv Griffin Show<\/em>. He was Griffin&#8217;s sidekick for many years. Prior to joining Griffin&#8217;s show, he served as bandleader for the short-lived <em>The Las Vegas Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>His voice is perhaps best known from the <em>Schoolhouse Rock!<\/em> cartoons of the 1970s, such as &#8220;Conjunction Junction&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;m Just a Bill&#8221;. He appeared in one episode of <em>Johnny Bravo<\/em> as the Sensitive Man. He sang a few songs in the episode similar to the <em>Schoolhouse Rock!<\/em> style. Sheldon returned to the <em>Schoolhouse Rock!<\/em> series for a 2002 episode titled &#8220;I&#8217;m Gonna Send Your Vote to College&#8221;, explaining the electoral college process, and distributed on the series&#8217; DVD collection that same year. Sheldon sang and played trumpet for the new segment.<\/p>\n<p>Sheldon voiced &#8220;Louie the Lightning Bug&#8221; in a series of animated musical public service announcements aimed at children during the 1980s, promoting safety with electricity. In 2001, the &#8220;Louie the Lightning Bug&#8221; videos were updated with new voice-overs by Sheldon and new music tracks produced by Mark Harrelson, with updated musical arrangements by Ray Reach.<\/p><div id=\"morty-229817590\" class=\"morty-content_2\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>He sang the tune &#8220;King Putt&#8221; for <em>The World According to Goofy Parade<\/em> at Disneyland, which ran for five months in 1992. A trumpet solo of his is featured throughout the Francis Ford Coppola film, <em>One from the Heart<\/em> (1982). Tom Waits&#8217; 1977 album Foreign Affairs includes Sheldon playing trumpet on several cuts, including the solo at the end of &#8220;Burma Shave.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the 1964\u20131965 season, Sheldon starred with Cara Williams and Frank Aletter on the CBS situation comedy, <em>The Cara Williams Show<\/em> in which Williams and Aletter played a married couple trying to keep their marriage a secret because their employer forbade husband and wife from working together. From 1966\u20131967, Sheldon starred in his own 16-episode CBS sitcom, <em>Run, Buddy, Run<\/em>, as Buddy Overstreet, a young accountant taking a steam bath who, overhearing a mobster&#8217;s plot to kill a colleague, then goes on the run to keep from being killed. Bruce Gordon, formerly of <em>The Untouchables<\/em> played the mobster, &#8220;Mr. D&#8221;. He made numerous appearances on the 1967\u20131970 version of <em>Dragnet<\/em>. He also played John Davidson and Sally Field&#8217;s brother on <em>The Girl with Something Extra<\/em> (1974). In 2004, he performed live at the end of <em>ALF&#8217;s Hit Talk Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Sheldon appeared in an Oscar-nominated documentary film Let&#8217;s Get Lost about the life of fellow jazz trumpeter Chet Baker. He made an appearance in the 1994 film Radioland Murders as the ill-fated trumpet player Ruffles Reedy, who becomes a victim of the gruesome goings-on during a 1939 radio show.<\/p>\n<p>Sheldon performed one of the many versions of the title song featured in Robert Altman&#8217;s 1973 film <em>The Long Goodbye<\/em>. His version was intended to be released as a single, but never was.<\/p>\n<p>Sheldon is the subject of a documentary, <em>Trying to Get Good: the Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon<\/em> (2008). Produced by Doug McIntyre and Penny Peyser, the film features interviews with Clint Eastwood, Billy Crystal, Merv Griffin, Chris Botti, Dave Frishberg, Johnny Mandel, Tierney Sutton, as well as never before seen concert footage of Sheldon playing, singing and joking. 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