Edison Electric Band
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Edison Electric Band was a Philadelphia rock band of the 1970s. It was led by Mark T. Jordan [1] and featured bass player Freebo, who later played for Bonnie Raitt's band.[2] It released an album for Cotillion in 1970, "Bless You, Dr. Woodward". Jordan was writer for Raitt's 1977 single "Two Lives".[3]
"Bless You Dr. Woodward", Cotillion, 1970[edit]
- Track listing
- Side one
- "Ship Of The Future" — (Mark Jordan, David "Rip" Stock) — 2:37
- "Over The Hill" — (Jordan, Joshua Rice) — 6:51
- "Please Send Me" — (Percy Mayfield) — 4:35
- "Baby Leroy" — (Rice) — 3:44
- Side Two
- "Rotal Fool" — (Jordan, Rice) — 3:21
- "West Wind" — (Jordan, Rice) — 3:15
- "Lonely Avenue" — (Doc Pomus) — 3:40
- "Island Sun" — (Jordan, Rice) — 3:29
- "Smokehouse" — (Stock) — 3:58
- "Lebanese Packhorse" — (T.J. Tindall) — 0:40
- Personnel
- Edison Electric Band
- T.J. Tindall — guitars, vocals
- Mark Jordan — piano, electric piano, Hammond organ, guitars
- Dan Friedberg — bass, acoustic guitar
- David "Rip" Stock — drums, vocals, percussion
- Additional Personnel
- Norman Pride — congas (tracks 1, 8)
- Michael Ziegler — guitars (tracks 9, 10)
- The Brookmead Mumble Choir — vocals (track 9)
References[edit]
- ^ Billboard - 2 Sep 1967 - Page 4 " manager of that firms publishing arm, Rock Island Music, to co-publish all material of Mark T. Jordan, leader of the Edison Electric Band that he ..."
- ^ Kristin Baggelaar, Donald Milton - Folk Music: More Than a Song 1976 -- Page 307 "... with ex-Edison Electric Band (another local Philadelphia group, which she had met on a return engagement at the Second Fret) bass player Dan "Freebo" Friedberg, who has played as a member of her entourage throughout the seventies."
- ^ Mark Bego Bonnie Raitt: Still in the Nick of Time 2002 p67 " Mark Jordan, of Freebo's old Philadelphia group, the Edison Electric Band, contributed the beautiful ballad "Two Lives." "
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