Neely Plumb

Producer Neely Plumb's credits include the platinum selling movie soundtracks of The Sound of Music (number one pop for two weeks), Bye Bye Birdie, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, True Grit, and the 1968 Franco Zefferelli film Romeo and Juliet. His daughter is Eve Plumb of the classic TV series The Brady Bunch. He produced a RCA single, "How Will It Be," as well as a 1974 Capitol single, "Love Doesn't Care Who in It" b/w "Gum Drop," on series co-star Mike Lookinland. Plumb was a staff A&R producer at RCA Records for almost a decade beginning in 1959. The arranger/conductor/clarinet player also worked with such diverse acts as Artie Shaw, the Limeliters, Jefferson Airplane, Victor Young, Glenn Yarbrough, Ann-Margret, Juan Esquivel, and Ray Noble. He also produced some pre-stardom sides on the Carpenters. Plumb arranged the million-selling number one pop hit "Purple People Eater" by Sheb Wooley. At the age of 88, Neely Plumb died of heart failure in Sherman Oaks, CA, on October 4, 2000. ~ Ed Hogan