THE DODGERS (1976)
It started as a demo session for John Wilson and Dave Powell but then Tom Evans and Bob Jackson harmonized very good with the other two musicians, so that they decided to form a band together. Dave Powell made the proposal to call the band the Dodgers. They selected two songs out of their sessions for the first single, which was released in March 1976. Another two songs were released in June as the second single of the Dodgers. Shortly after the release of the second single Dave Powell left the group. In August Paul Hooper could finally join the Dodgers. The group started to record their debut album and a first single of this line-up was released in early 1977. In April the group's management decided that Tom Evans did not fit to the group's image and therefore he was asked to leave. Bob JacksonSpecial note: All of the three Dodgers singles have been sent to me by a blog reader called Superflash. No artwork was included but the overall quality of the rips is quite excellent. Those singles are pretty scarce, so thank you to Superflash for these rarities. More Dodgers here.
Don't Let Me Be Wrong [Island WIP 6292]
Don't Let Me Be Wrong / Get To You
Just Wanna Love You [Island WIP 6342]
Just Wanna Love You / Don't Know What You're Doing
Down [Island WIP 6361]
Down / Don't Let Me Be Wrong
7 comments:
Dumbass record company...what band would not want Tom Evans singing that cool high harmony?!
hi
saw the Dodgers twice in 75/76 (if I remember correctly) -they did a steaming version of "Can I Get a Witness" live-off stage Tommy was very introverted and sad looking-
they deserved to be much bigger
I was a friend of John Wilson's sister MARI WILSON-yes the very same bee-hived bluesy/jazz chanteuse-talented family!!
Brian
thanks for the "dodgers".
I'm surprised you didn't tell your readers that Tom Evans was from Badfinger! Jeez.
Come on anonymous... anyone checking this blog has to know that!!
Thanks for these great rarities, angelo!!
Now if somebody just had the Dodgers BBC tracks in better quality that would just about do it.
After all of my obsessing over the Dodgers tracks someone today asked where the other "Just Wanna Love You" was. It appears there must be a version w/Tom Evans removed from it that was on the UK 'Love on the Rebound' LP, but not on the US version.
Does anyone have a nice rip of that UK album track?
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