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

Track listing
Side one
  1. "Ship Of The Future" — (Mark Jordan, David "Rip" Stock) — 2:37
  2.  "Over The Hill" — (Jordan, Joshua Rice) — 6:51
  3. "Please Send Me" — (Percy Mayfield) — 4:35
  4. "Baby Leroy" — (Rice) — 3:44
Side Two
  2. "Rotal Fool" — (Jordan, Rice) — 3:21
  3. "West Wind" — (Jordan, Rice) — 3:15
  4. "Lonely Avenue" — (Doc Pomus) — 3:40
  5. "Island Sun" — (Jordan, Rice) — 3:29
  6. "Smokehouse" — (Stock) — 3:58
  7. "Lebanese Packhorse" — (T.J. Tindall) — 0:40
Personnel
Edison Electric Band
Additional Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ 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 ..."
  2. ↑ 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."
  3. ↑ 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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