John Boylan

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For the former US Representative from New York, see John J. Boylan.

John Boylan (born 21 March 1941, New York City), is a leading American music producer and songwriter.

After graduating from Bard College, he and his brother Terence worked with music publisher Charles Koppelman before moving to Los Angeles in the late 1960s. There they recorded an album as the Appletree Theatre.

John then started to develop a career as a producer, working with Rick Nelson, the Association, the Dillards and others. He also managed Linda Ronstadt in particular introducing her to a then unknown group of musicians who went on to become her backing band in 1971, and later became the Eagles.

After working in the early 1970s with Pure Prairie League and Commander Cody, he had one of his biggest successes sharing the production duties of the first Boston album with the band's founder Tom Scholz. The group's label, Epic Records, rewarded him by offering him the position of Vice President, West Coast, where he stayed for a decade.

During this period, he produced many further successful albums, notably with Charlie Daniels and the Little River Band. In 1986, he left to form his own company, Great Eastern Music. One of his first projects was to produce the highly successful album The Simpsons Sing the Blues.

Boylan's new passion in producing children's music resulted in albums by The Chipmunks and the Muppets. In 1998, he produced the massive 1998 ABC-TV prime time special Elmopalooza, for which he won a Grammy for Best Musical Album. He has also worked on several motion picture soundtracks, including Urban Cowboy and Born on the Fourth of July.

Boylan is married and has one son, Johnny, 7, and one daughter, Amy, 24.