Raymond Jessel (16 October 1929 – 17 July 2015)[1] was a Welsh songwriter, screenwriter, orchestrator, and musical theatre composer.

In the 1970s and 1980s he was a writer and editor for numerous episodes of The Love Boat and Head of the Class, among other series, and co-wrote lyrics for I Remember Mama in 1979.

[6][4] Their major breakthrough came when producer Alexander H. Cohen signed them to write the songs for the 1964 Broadway musical Baker Street, about Sherlock Holmes.

This new musical was not a success, but its title song was recorded by Jimmy Durante and Louis Armstrong.

He was a story editor of the ABC comedy The Love Boat from 1977 to 1980, and writer and consultant of Head of the Class from 1986 to 1991.

", which was recorded by Michael Feinstein (on Forever), David Campbell (in Yesterday Is Now), and by Masters of Harmony (on California Gold Rush); and "I'm All Right Now" on John Pizzarelli's CD New Standards.

They wrote scripts and songs for the Shari Lewis' PBS show The Charlie Horse Music Pizza.

He performed an original comic song, "What She's Got", about a man who discovers that his girlfriend whom "I just adore ... has much more than I had bargained for" ... a penis.