Garry Sherman

Garry Sherman (born December 28, 1933) is an American musician, arranger, composer and orchestrator, who was involved from the 1960s in many hit records as well as Broadway shows, film soundtracks and advertising campaigns. He has also maintained a successful parallel career as a sports podiatrist.

Early life Born in Brooklyn, Sherman started playing piano at the age of four. He continued to develop his skills as an arranger and orchestrator while studying medicine and podiatry at Temple University, and then as an intern at Illinois College of Podiatry.

Music career After setting up a podiatry practice in New Jersey, he started working in the music business in the early 1960s. He arranged and played piano, accordion and celeste on the 1960 Columbia Records album Percussion Goes Dixieland,

He arranged and composed soundtracks for movies, including Midnight Cowboy (as arranger, 1969), Alice's Restaurant (music supervisor, composer and arranger, 1969) and The Heartbreak Kid (composer, 1972). Sherman has also composed orchestral works, including Viet Nam Cantata, performed at The Town Hall in New York in 1970. For eighteen years, he worked as chief orchestrator on advertising campaigns for Coca-Cola, Miller Beer, and Löwenbräu, winning several Clio Awards.

He came out of musical retirement as music supervisor and arranger for Piece of My Heart: The Bert Berns Story, in 2014.

Podiatry Sherman left his musical career in the 1980s and became a full-time podiatrist. He has specialized in treating athletes, developing his own techniques using computer models to examine how feet distribute weight in different sports. He was team physician for Billie Jean King's team in World Team Tennis, the New Jersey Stars, and was a researcher for U.S. Figure Skating at the Olympic Training Center. He is also Biomechanical Sports Podiatrist at Rutgers University.