Richard Reicheg (May 26, 1937 – July 30, 2021) was an American television, stage, and film actor, musician and a Grammy-nominated songwriter.
Reicheg wrote the song “For The Sake Of The Children” that is featured in the Robert Altman film Nashville[1][2] and for which he received a Grammy nomination in 1975.
His songs have been recorded and performed by many top artists,[3] including The Persuasions, Maria Muldaur, Gary Wright, and Jay and the Americans.
Film historian Jan Stewart has called Reicheg's song "For the Sake of the Children" an "ode to marital fidelity [that is] a delicious postmodern balancing act of send up and the real McCoy.
He was a featured performer at the 1964 New York World's Fair, and part of The American Hootenany Festival that toured colleges throughout the US.