c1978
Sources include Rex Brough / Hobo
Magazine  / Bob Jackson Site.

Visit the Dodgers onlin e Library here

 http://badfinge.ipower.com/SoloBadfinger/Dodgers/DodgersLibrary.html

First line
up

John Wilson
– guitar, bass, vocal Dave Powell drums / PCS 
Bob Jackson Vocals, keyboards, guitar Tom Evans Vocals / bass

Dave Powell
left after the second single – replaced by Terry Williams and then Paul Hooper
(Ex Indian Summer) on drums.

Tom Evans (
Ex Badfinger) was replaced by Roger Lomas (Ex Sorrows / The Eggy – later Two
Tone Producer)

Final Line
Up

John Wilson
– guitar, bass, vocals  Bob
Jackson, vocal, keyboards Roger
Lomas, bass, guitars, vocals  Paul
Hooper, drums, percussion.

Singles

Don’t Let
me Be Wrong (by John Wilson) b/w Get to You (Bob Jackson / Tom Evans) Island.
1976

Just want
to Love You (John Wilson) b/w Don’t know what you’re doing (Bob Jackson) Island

Down (John
Wilson) b/w Don’t know what you’re doing (Bob Jackson) Island

Love on the
Rebound (John Wilson) b/w Come out Fighting (Bob Jackson / Paul Hooper) Polydor
1978

 Anytime Bob
Jackson / John Wilson) b/w Little Darlin’ (Roger Lomas) Polydor 1978

http://www.45worlds.com/vinyl/album/pd16174 

Albums

Love On The
Rebound (Polydor 1978)

Rex Brough
explains –

“This
band were a post Badfinger venture for Tom Evans.  Roger Lomas had played in the Eggy and the
Zips, and Bob Jackson and Paul Hooper, formerly with Indian Summer. who
recorded albums and singles between 1977-79. Lomas went on to be a full-time
record producer, initially working at Horizon Studios, Coventry run by Barry
Thomas (which was demolished). Coventry bands that came under his spell include
the Specials, the Selecter and the Reluctant Stereotypes, some members of whom
became 80’s bouffant hit-band, King.”

 Article by Pete Clemons here https://coventrygigs.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-dodgers-love-on-rebound.html

 YouTube
Video

After
Indian Summer split up in 1971, after the release of their RCA Neon album named
after the group, Coventry keyboard player and vocalist Bob Jackson (Wikipedia)
went on to play with John Entwhistles band Ro Ro and then join Alan Ross in the
band Ross – recording on the RSO label and then played in Pete Brown’s
Piblokto. By 1974 Bob had replaced Peter Ham in Badfinger (and was retained
after Peter Ham withdrew his resignation). Badfinger disbanded following Ham’s
suicide in 1975. Jackson remained in contact with Badfinger’s bassist Tom
Evans, and the two joined “The Dodgers” in 1976. The Dodgers released
a handful of singles and one album by 1977, the year Jackson was released by
the band due to management disagreements. (More on the Dodgers here http://badfinge.ipower.com/SoloBadfinger/Dodgers/DodgersLibrary.html

Ross featuring Bob Jackson

 There are
more tracks by Ross on you tube

 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.

Bob Jackson
called his old friend Paul Hooper to join the DODGERS but as he was not
immediately available, Terry Williams joined the group for some commitments in
July.

 

  Below – link to a radio Interview  – Steve Jones In Conversation: The Dodgers

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