Among his other early work was a lead sheet writer in Hollywood, and an arranger for Paul Masse at Liberty Records.
By the 1960s, Daugherty had all but retired from the music business, working in public relations at North American Aviation, an aircraft company with a location operating in the Los Angeles area.
One performer in Daugherty's network was John Pisano, guitarist of Herb Alpert's band The Tijuana Brass, and still a part of the A&M Records roster.
Daugherty is credited with getting a demo tape of Karen and Richard Carpenter's work to Herb Alpert through Pisano.
During his time as a credited producer for the duo, Daugherty produced his own debut album for A&M: "Jack Daugherty and the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Seventy One," a jazz oriented instrumental album with more than 30 musicians contributing, including Larry Carlton, Joe Osborn, Chuck Finley and Hal Blaine.
While grateful for his contribution to their landing a record contract, the Carpenters viewed Daugherty as simply an A&R man, and not a creative producer, despite Richard crediting him as such in their Grammy Award acceptance speech for "Close to You".
Expecting to have his complaints dismissed, Carpenter was surprised to discover that Alpert and Moss shared his concerns, mostly over Daugherty not producing any non-Carpenters work for A&M other than his own.
Daugherty released another album, a collection of jazz and show tunes called "Romance", on the Portazul label in 1990.