Jack Grimsley is an Australian musical director and composer who worked as the Musical Director at Network Ten

Network Ten

Network Ten , is one of Australia's three major commercial television networks. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country...

 between 1966 and 1988. He has also worked on many compilation albums involving various styles of music, including jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 and swing music.

Grimsley is also responsible for the theme music of Wheel of Fortune

Wheel of Fortune (Australian game show)

Wheel of Fortune was an Australian television game show produced by Grundy Television. The programme aired on the Seven Network from 1981 to 2004 and November 2005 to July 2006, and is mostly based on the same general format as the original US version of the programme...

and Sale of the Century

Sale of the Century (Australian game show)

$ale of the Century was an Australian game show that aired on the Nine Network from 14 July 1980 – 29 November 2001. Tony Barber hosted an early version of Sale of the Century under the title of Temptation from 1970–1976, and was also the initial host of Sale, replaced by Glenn Ridge in 1991...

in Australia. The 2005 revival of Sale of the Century, known as Temptation did not use Grimsley's theme, although Wheel of Fortune continued to use an updated rendition of his theme in 2006 after its hiatus during 2005. Grimsley also worked on shows such as Blankety Blanks

Blankety Blanks

Blankety Blanks was a popular Australian game show based on the American game show Match Game. It was hosted by Graham Kennedy on Network Ten. It ran from 1977-1978.Regular panelists were Ugly Dave Gray, Noeline Brown, Carol Raye and Stuart Wagstaff...

, Benny Hill Down Under, and the Ian Turpie

Ian Turpie

Ian "Turps" Turpie is an Australian television celebrity, best known for hosting the long-running game show The Price Is Right before being replaced by Larry Emdur.-Early life:...

era of The Price is Right

The Price Is Right (Australian game show)

The Price is Right was a television game show that has been produced in a number of different formats in Australia.-Original format:Two regional versions based on the original 1950s US format aired nearly concurrently - one aired on ATN-7 in Sydney, hosted by Bruce Beeby and Keith Walshe from...

. His orchestra provided the score for the musical Say It With Music.

Grimsley has worked with many famous Australian musicians such as John Williamson

John Williamson (singer)

John Robert Williamson AM is an Australian country music singer-songwriter. Williamson has released over thirty-two albums, ten videos, five DVDs, and two lyric books...

 and even played instruments on their albums such as the piano on Road Thru The Heart and Boomerang Café.