Sounds Good Explained

Genre:	music
Presenter:	Jim McKenna
Country:	Canada
Language:	English
Channel:	CBC Television
Num Seasons:	1
Num Episodes:	4
Producer:	Jim McKenna
Runtime:	60 minutes

Sounds Good is a Canadian music television miniseries which aired on CBC Television in 1976.

Premise

This four-part series featured particular genres of modern music and various performers. Jim McKenna hosted Sounds Good except the country music episode.

• Folk: featured Ellen McIlwaine, Don McLean, Myles and Lenny and David Wiffen
• Country (10 September 1976): featured Carroll Baker, Tim Daniels (later of Comin' Up Country), Mary Lou Del Gatto, Prairie Oyster^[1]
• Disco: featured Crack of Dawn, Soul Express, Sweet Blindness and Rick Wamil
• Jazz: featured Moe Koffman Sextet, Peter Appleyard, Aura and Clark Terry

Sounds Good was hastily produced on a low (approximately) budget when CBC's Studio 7 became unexpectedly available for three days. A previously-planned television feature on Nellie McClung was scheduled to film there but production was cancelled when ACTRA objected to the choice of an American actor portraying McClung.^[2]

Scheduling

The hour-long episodes were broadcast on 4 August 10 September, 18 and 28 September 1976.

External links

• Web site: Sounds Good . Blaine . Allan . . 1996 . 7 May 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100325131831/http://www.film.queensu.ca/cbc/Sev.html . 25 March 2010 . dmy-all .

Notes and References

1. News: Cut-rate special doesn't need slick package . . 8 September 1976 . 14 . Blaik . Kirby .
2. Web site: Sounds Good . John . Corcelli . September 2005. Canadian Communications Foundation . 7 May 2010 .