Edison Electric Band was a
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band of the 1970s. It was led by Mark T. Jordan and featured bass player
Freebo
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, who later played for
Bonnie Raitt's band. It released an album for Cotillion in 1970, "Bless You, Dr. Woodward". Jordan was writer for Raitt's 1977 single "Two Lives".
[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." "]
"Bless You Dr. Woodward", Cotillion, 1970
;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
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" — (Doc Pomus
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) — 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)
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Musical groups from Philadelphia