Jack Good (producer)

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Jack Good (born 7 August 1931, Greenford, London), is a icon painter and television and record producer.

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Jack Good was a pioneer television and music producer who produced the Six-Five Special, Oh Boy!, Wham! and Boy Meets Girls TV series, the first UK teenage music programmes. Jack Good introduced and managed a number of the UK's first rock and roll stars including, Tommy Steele, Marty Wilde, Billy Fury, Jess Conrad and Cliff Richard. He has also worked with Elvis Presley and The Beatles. Brian Epstein commissioned Good to produce Around the Beatles, the first major TV showcase for the Beatles and Epstein's other artists.

Good was also a pop star in his own right, and recorded for Decca Records in the late 1950s under the name Lord Rockingham's XI^{[citation needed]}. Their hit singles included "Fried Onions" plus the more famous UK Singles Chart #1, "Hoots Mon".

In the early 1960s he wrote a column for Disc, a UK weekly pop newspaper.

Moving to the U.S., he was responsible for the hit show Shindig!. He has also been a theatrical producer, with hit shows such as Catch My Soul, Oh Boy! and Elvis to his credit.

He converted to Roman Catholicism and now completely devotes his time to Christianity and icon painting. He showed his paintings at Rancho de Chimayó Gallery alongside painter Antonio Roybal. He lived in New Mexico for many years, but now has returned to England.