Best known as the right-hand-man and arranger of producer Phil Spector and for his work with the Rolling Stones or Neil Young, among many others, Bernard Alfred Jack Nitzsche also worked extensively in film scores, notably for films such as Performance, The Exorcist and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (in 1983, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for co-writing Up Where We Belong). As a solo artist, he scored one of Reprise labels first pop hits with his instrumental The Lonely Surfer in 1963.

Between January 14-23, 1974, Jack Nitzsche recorded a self-titled album at Cinderella Studios in Madison, Tennessee, and a release date was set for April 26, before it was pulled from the labels schedule by Warner Bros. label chief Morris Mo Ostin. The project was a collaboration between Nitzsche and underground filmmaker Robert Downey.

The album remained unreleased, abandoned in a North Hollywood storage facility that Warner employees call the Vault, until Rhino Handmade included all eleven tracks in their Jack Nitzsche collection Three Piece Suit: The Reprise Recordings 1971-1974, a long out of print internet-only CD issued to great critical acclaim in 2001. This Hanky Panky / Mapache LP release marks the first time it has been made available on vinyl, as originally intended.

• The Lost 1974 Reprise Album: A Forgotten Masterpiece
• First ever vinyl release
• Includes 4 page insert with notes by Bryan Thomas, and many rare pictures and graphics

MAPA0016LP -Artist-Jack Nitzsche

• Internal ID: JIT
• Format: Vinyl
• Format Detail: LP Black
• Handling Note: **Please allow an additional 5 business days for this item’s shipment.**
• Genre: Rock
• Released: 6/10/20