1971 Jack Daugherty – The Class Of Nineteen Hundred And Seventy One

Jack Daugherty (August 13, 1930 – February 2, 1991) was an American musician, trumpeter and producer who is best known for being the music producer of the band The Carpenters.

For most of his early professional career, Daugherty had worked as a trumpeter in Woody Herman’s band. By the 1960s, he had all but retired from the music business, working in public relations at North American Aviation, an aircraft company with a location operating in the Los Angeles area. He went on to produce three albums: Jack Daugherty and the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Seventy One (referred to by Sounds as “a supersession of the finest studio musicians in Hollywood”), on A&M Records, Carmel by the Sea, on the Monterey Label, and Romance, on Columbia Records, Japan, as his last known project.