My Name Is Jack

"My Name Is Jack"
Single by Manfred Mann
B-side"There Is a Man"
Released7 June 1968 (1968-06-07)
RecordedMarch 1968
StudioTrident, London[1]
Genre
Length2:50
Label
Songwriter(s)John Simon
Producer(s)
Manfred Mann singles chronology
"(Theme from) Up the Junction"
(1968) 		"My Name Is Jack"
(1968) 		"Fox on the Run"
(1968)

"My Name Is Jack" is a song written by American record producer John Simon[2] and released as a single by British group Manfred Mann in 1968.[3] Their version reached number 8 on the UK Singles Chart.[4] It became an international Top 10 hit, but only reached number 104 in the US.[5]

  1. ^ a b "BI's Chart Fax" (PDF). Beat Instrumental (8): 17. August 1968. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  2. ^ "AFI Catalog of Feature Films – You Are What You Eat". American Film Institute. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
  3. ^ Shinner, Merrill (13 April 1977). "Manfred Mann rewrites the past". St. Petersburg Times. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
  4. ^ Betts, Graham (2004). Complete UK Hit Singles 1952–2004 (1st ed.). London: Collins. p. 488. ISBN 0-00-717931-6.
  5. ^ Joel Whitburn's Bubbling Under the Billboard Hot 100 1959-2004