Dick Boyell

Richard "Dick" Boyell (September 21, 1923 - January 8, 2011) was a Chicago jazz composer, arranger and musician. He began his career as a musician in Chicago's legendary Pump Room, going on to become a premier producer of music for the ad industry, doing work for Purex, Helene Curtis, Kimberly-Clark, Allied Van Lines and U.S. Sprint, his best known work is "Music To Think By", which underscored a number of popular mid-'60s US TV ads for the World Coffee Organization. He also made a few singles under his own name, as well as the 1970s Chicago jazz/funk project Ju-Par Universal Orchestra, with Bruce Swedien.