Dedication (Bay City Rollers album)

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Dedication
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Studio album by
Bay City Rollers
ReleasedSeptember 1976
Recorded1976
Genre Pop rock, power pop
Label Arista, Bell
Producer Jimmy Ienner
Bay City Rollers chronology
Rock N'Roll Love Letter
(1976)		Dedication
(1976)		 It's a Game
(1977)
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Dedication is an album by the Bay City Rollers, issued in September 1976. It was the band's fourth original studio album, and the first new album to be released in the wake of their enormous worldwide success of early 1976.

Contents

Founding group member Alan Longmuir had been replaced by Ian Mitchell prior to the recording sessions. Upon the switch, Mitchell was slotted as rhythm guitarist; Stuart Wood moved from rhythm guitar to bass. Mitchell also provided the lead vocals, for the title track. However, when he left the band, later that year, a version of "Dedication" featuring vocals by Les McKeown was included, on subsequent pressings of the LP and was also released as a single.

Track listing

UK edition, Bell Records #8005

Side one

  1. "Let's Pretend" (Eric Carmen)
  2. "You're a Woman" (Eric Faulkner, Stuart Wood)
  3. "Rock 'N Roller" (Faulkner, Wood)
  4. "Don't Worry Baby" (Brian Wilson, Roger Christian)
  5. "Yesterday's Hero" (Harry Vanda, George Young)

Side two

  1. "My Lisa" (Tony Sciuto, Sammy Egorin)
  2. "Money Honey" (Faulkner, Wood)
  3. "Rock 'N Roll Love Letter" (Tim Moore)
  4. "Write a Letter" (Wood, Les McKeown, Ian Mitchell)
  5. "Dedication" (Guy Fletcher, Doug Flett)

US edition, Arista Records #4093

Side one

  1. "Let's Pretend" (Carmen) – 3:31
  2. "You're a Woman" (Faulkner, Wood) – 4:15
  3. "Rock 'N Roller" (Faulkner, Wood) – 3:30
  4. "I Only Want To Be With You (Hawker & Raymond) – 3:27
  5. "Yesterday's Hero" (Vanda, Young) – 4:33

Side two

  1. "My Lisa" (Scutio, Egorin) – 3:35
  2. "Don't Worry Baby" (Wilson, Christian) – 3:03
  3. "Are You Cuckoo?" (Russ Ballard) – 4:05
  4. "Write a Letter" (Wood, McKeown, Mitchell) – 3:47
  5. "Dedication" (Fletcher, Flett) – 3:54

Personnel

Charts

Singles

YearSingleChartPosition
1975"Money Honey"UK Singles3
1976"I Only Want to Be with You"Billboard Hot 10012
"Yesterday's Hero"Billboard Hot 10054
1977"Dedication"Billboard Hot 10060

References

  1. ↑ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. Australian Chart Book, St Ives, N.S.W. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.
  2. ↑ "Austriancharts.at – Bay City Rollers – Dedication" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
  3. ↑ "Canadian Albums". RPM Albums. 17 July 2013. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
  4. ↑ Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin - levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. p. 263. ISBN   978-951-1-21053-5.
  5. ↑ "Offiziellecharts.de – Bay City Rollers – Dedication" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
  6. ↑ "Oricon Archive - Bay City Rollers".
  7. ↑ "Bay City Rollers - Dedication - hitparade.ch".
  8. ↑ "Swedishcharts.com – Bay City Rollers – Dedication". Hung Medien. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
  9. ↑ "Swisscharts.com – Bay City Rollers – Dedication". Hung Medien. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
  10. ↑ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
  11. ↑ "Bay City Rollers Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  12. ↑
    • Zimbabwe. Kimberley, C. Zimbabwe: albums chart book. Harare: C. Kimberley, 2000
  13. ↑ "Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. 1977. Archived from the original on 24 October 2021. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
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