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The first Bay City Rollers album to see simultaneous world-wide release was also, in the eyes of the tartan faithful, the first to reveal a serious crack in the band's hitherto impregnable armor. Founder Alan Longmuir had been eased out in favor of teenage wunderkind Ian Mitchell, songwriters Bill Martin and Phil Coulter had moved on to groom other would-be teeny bop idols, and Dedication was the Rollers giant step toward both musical and critical credibility. They could have pulled it off as well. At least two of the songs, the Beach Boys' "Don't Worry Baby" and Harry Vanda/George Young's "Yesterday's Hero," offer up more or less definitive versions of their subjects, with the latter taking added poignancy from the inclusion of off-stage action from a riot-torn Rollers' gig in Canada. A cover of Eric Carmen's "Let's Pretend," meanwhile, certainly signposts the directions in which the group's own songwriters, Eric Faulkner and Stuart Wood, saw themselves moving, a point proven by their own "You're a Woman." And the closing title track allows the new boy to ingratiate himself with Rollergirls everywhere, with a so-sad-and-sweet monologue over a weeping late-night ballad. Yet Dedication isn't the strongest album that the Rollers could have released at this point in time, a point proven by its British counterpart. There, the gutbucket rocker "Money Honey," and a fabulous version of Tim Moore's "Rock and Roll Love Letter" replace the American version's "Are You Cuckoo?" and the hit "I Only Want to Be with You," with the former, at least, no loss whatsoever. Either (or both) of those absentees would have pumped Dedication up to classic proportions; as it stands, it is merely the Rollers' masterpiece.
© Dave Thompson /TiVo
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Eric Carmen, Composer - Eric Carmen, Lyricist - Bay City Rollers, Performer
(P) 1976 Arista Records LLC
Stuart Wood, Composer - Stuart Wood, Lyricist - Bay City Rollers, Performer - Eric Faulkner, Composer - Eric Faulkner, Lyricist
(P) 1976 Arista Records LLC
Stuart Wood, Composer - Stuart Wood, Lyricist - Jimmy Ienner, Producer - Bay City Rollers, Performer - Eric Faulkner, Composer - Eric Faulkner, Lyricist
(P) 1976 Arista Records LLC
Roger Val Christian, Composer - Roger Val Christian, Lyricist - Bay City Rollers, Performer - Brian Wilson, Composer - Brian Wilson, Lyricist
(P) 1976 Arista Records LLC
George Young, Composer - George Young, Lyricist - Jimmy Ienner, Producer - Bay City Rollers, Performer - Harry Vanda, Composer - Harry Vanda, Lyricist
(P) 1976 Arista Records LLC
Eric Faulkner, Background Vocal - Stuart Wood, Background Vocal - Robert "Ringo" Hrycyna, 2nd Engineer - Jim Frank, 2nd Engineer - Joe Barbara, 2nd Engineer - Tony Sciuto, Composer - Tony Sciuto, Lyricist - Sam Egorin, Composer - Sam Egorin, Lyricist - Greg Calbi, Mastering Engineer - Les McKeown, Vocal - Ian Mitchell, Background Vocal - Dave Palmer, Recording Engineer - Dave Palmer, Mixing Engineer - Bay City Rollers, Performer
(P) 1976 Arista Records LLC
Phil Wainman, Producer - Stuart Wood, Composer - Stuart Wood, Lyricist - Bay City Rollers, Performer - Eric Faulkner, Composer - Eric Faulkner, Lyricist
(P) 1975 Arista Records LLC
Tim Moore, Composer - Tim Moore, Lyricist - Colin Frechter, Producer - Bay City Rollers, Performer
(P) 1976 Arista Records Inc.
Stuart Wood, Composer - Stuart Wood, Lyricist - Ian Mitchell, Composer - Ian Mitchell, Lyricist - Les McKeown, Composer - Les McKeown, Lyricist - Bay City Rollers, Performer
(P) 1976 Arista Records LLC
Douglas Flett, Composer - Douglas Flett, Lyricist - Guy Fletcher, Composer - Guy Fletcher, Lyricist - Bay City Rollers, Performer
(P) 1976 Arista Records LLC
Hawker, Composer - Hawker, Lyricist - Raymond, Composer - Raymond, Lyricist - Bay City Rollers, Vocal
(P)1976 Arista Records LLC
Stuart Wood, Composer - Stuart Wood, Lyricist - Muff Winwood, Producer - Bay City Rollers, Performer - Eric Faulkner, Composer - Eric Faulkner, Lyricist
(P) 1976 Arista Records LLC
Muff Winwood, Producer - Faulkner, Composer - Faulkner, Lyricist - Bay City Rollers, Performer - Wood, Composer - Wood, Lyricist
(P) 1976 Arista Records Inc.
Phil Wainman, Producer - Faulkner, Composer - Faulkner, Lyricist - Bay City Rollers, Performer - Wood, Composer - Wood, Lyricist
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Album review
The first Bay City Rollers album to see simultaneous world-wide release was also, in the eyes of the tartan faithful, the first to reveal a serious crack in the band's hitherto impregnable armor. Founder Alan Longmuir had been eased out in favor of teenage wunderkind Ian Mitchell, songwriters Bill Martin and Phil Coulter had moved on to groom other would-be teeny bop idols, and Dedication was the Rollers giant step toward both musical and critical credibility. They could have pulled it off as well. At least two of the songs, the Beach Boys' "Don't Worry Baby" and Harry Vanda/George Young's "Yesterday's Hero," offer up more or less definitive versions of their subjects, with the latter taking added poignancy from the inclusion of off-stage action from a riot-torn Rollers' gig in Canada. A cover of Eric Carmen's "Let's Pretend," meanwhile, certainly signposts the directions in which the group's own songwriters, Eric Faulkner and Stuart Wood, saw themselves moving, a point proven by their own "You're a Woman." And the closing title track allows the new boy to ingratiate himself with Rollergirls everywhere, with a so-sad-and-sweet monologue over a weeping late-night ballad. Yet Dedication isn't the strongest album that the Rollers could have released at this point in time, a point proven by its British counterpart. There, the gutbucket rocker "Money Honey," and a fabulous version of Tim Moore's "Rock and Roll Love Letter" replace the American version's "Are You Cuckoo?" and the hit "I Only Want to Be with You," with the former, at least, no loss whatsoever. Either (or both) of those absentees would have pumped Dedication up to classic proportions; as it stands, it is merely the Rollers' masterpiece.
© Dave Thompson /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 14 track(s)
- Total length: 00:49:10
- Main artists: Bay City Rollers
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Arista
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
(P) 2004 BMG UK & Ireland Ltd.
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