Jack Tillar
Jack K. Tillar (1930) was a U.S. television and film music composer/editor.
Tillar composed the melody of the animated intermission played in film theaters in the 1950s: Let's All Go to the Lobby. Tillar scored various TV shows and films from the 1950s until the 1990s, including Playhouse 90, Climax, Perry Mason, The Twilight Zone, The Untouchables and Route 66. [1]
Tillar was additionally music editor on Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1973), Ben (1973) (the film best remembered for Michael Jackson's solo hit Ben), The Buddy Holly Story (1978), Caddyshack (1980) and various movies in the Friday the 13th franchise. Tillar also supervised the music for the blaxploitation movie The Mack (1973).
Stock music by Tillar was used in the monster movie The Giant Spider Invasion (1975).
Frank Zappa and Jack K. Tillar
Frank Zappa named Jack K. Tillar as one of his influences, mentioned in the Freak Out! list.
