Sounds Good

This article is about the television series. For the song by AKB48, see Manatsu no Sounds Good!

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

Sounds Good
Genre	music
Written by	Jim McKenna
Presented by	Jim McKenna
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	4
Production
Producer	Jim McKenna
Running time	60 minutes
Original release
Network	CBC Television
Release	4 August (1976-08-04) – 28 September 1976 (1976-09-28)

Premise

This four-part series featured particular genres of modern music and various performers. Jim McKenna hosted Sounds Good except the country music episode.^[1]

• 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 CA$40,000) 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.^[1][2]

Scheduling

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