Jack Sheldon

Jack Sheldon was a jazz trumpet player, vocalist, and actor from the United States who came up during the 1950s West Coast jazz scene and recorded alongside musicians such as Curtis Counce, Gerry Mulligan, Art Pepper, and Stan Kenton. Born in Jacksonville, Florida, he played trumpet and sang, and for years served as Merv Griffin's sidekick on The Merv Griffin Show after leading the band on The Las Vegas Show. His voice reached a wide audience through Schoolhouse Rock! numbers like Conjunction Junction and I'm Just a Bill, and he voiced Louie the Lightning Bug in animated electrical safety spots. On television, he starred in The Cara Williams Show and his own sitcom Run, Buddy, Run, and he appeared in the documentary Let's Get Lost (1988). His trumpet work on the song The Shadow of Your Smile, heard in The Sandpiper, helped it win a Grammy and an Academy Award. He died in 2019.