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After leaving the Mickey Mouse Club, Dick Dodd kept up with his drumming, playing with local garage band The Casuals as a teenager. He joined up with Paul Johnson and Eddie Bertrand in a South Bay band The Belairs, which had already recorded and released the first surf song Mr. Moto in 1961. The band played at their own club in Redondo Beach, but broke up around 1963. Dick also had an occasioanl acting gig; during 1962 he appeared in Bye Bye Birdie with Ann Margaret.  Dick then hooked up with a house band from PJ's club on Sunset Strip in early 1964. The band, called the Standells, had just lost it's drummer, and needed a new one, fast, to record their first album. Dick joined Larry Tamblyn, Tony Valentino, and Gary Lane in recording the album. Dick also sang lead on the song Help Yourself, as it turned out, the album's only hit. From then on, Dick replaced Larry Tamblyn as lead singer.

The Standells performed on quite a few television shows in the mid-sixties, including Shindig, Ben Casey, The Munsters, and The Bing Crosby Show among others. For The Mike Douglas Show the host asked Dick Dodd to sing a few bars of the Mickey Mouse Club Alma Mater, which Dick gamely did.  They also appeared with other bands in Get Yourself a College Girl (1964), directed by Sidney Miller. Their biggest hit at Billboard #11 was Dirty Water, written by their manager, Ed Cobb, to which Dick added a spoken introduction and ad-lib's. The band made five albums all together, and did one more film, Riot on Sunset Strip (1967) with Tim Rooney.

In 1968 Dick left the Standells to record solo. (SOURCE: Original Mickey Mouse Club )
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1 Medication 2 Little Sally Tease 3 There Is A Storm Comin’ 4 19th Nervous Breakdown 5 Dirty Water 6 Pride And Devotion 7 Sometimes Good Guys Don’t Wear White 8 Hey Joe, Where You Gonna Go ? 9 Why Did You Hurt Me 10 Rari 11 Last Train To Clarksville 12 Wild Thing 13 Sunshine Superman 14 Sunny Afternoon 15 Lil' Reding Hood 16 Eleanor Rigby 17 Black Is Black 18 Summer In The City 19 Dirty Water
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