Jack Douglas (record producer)

Jack Douglas
Born	New York City
Occupation(s)	Record producer

Jack Douglas is an American record producer.

Jack Douglas was born in New York City. Starting out as folk musician and performer, he worked on Robert Kennedy's senatorial campaign as a songwriter. Douglas then moved to England and joined a succession of bands before returning to New York to attend the Institute of Audio Research as a member of its first graduating class. His first professional job was at the new recording studio Record Plant Studios, not as producer or engineer, but as the janitor. Soon he was working at the recording desk, as a recording engineer, contributing to projects by Miles Davis, The James Gang, Alice Cooper, Cheap Trick, Montrose, Rough Cutt, Artful Dodger, Moxy, Flipp, and Mountain.

A chance encounter with a group member led Douglas to help engineer The Who's 1970 Record Plant sessions for the aborted Lifehouse project. Songs developed from these sessions were later included on Who's Next (1971). Douglas was then given the opportunity to engineer John Lennon's classic Imagine album in 1971. Douglas and Lennon formed a close bond and worked together for the remainder of Lennon's life.

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