DICK DODD
Dick Dodd (October 27, 1945 – November 29, 2013) was an American actor and musician who was a cast member of The Mickey Mouse Club starting in its first season, and later a member of several musical groups including The Standells. He was the lead singer on that band’s 1966 Billboard hit, “Dirty Water”, which includes the refrain “. . . Boston, you’re my home”.
And who was responsible for the distinctive growling vocals in “Dirty Water” that prefigured the snarling, snotty singing in so many 1970’s and 1980’s punk rock bands? His name is Dick Dodd, who handled lead vocalist duties on most of the Standells’ records; and he had been one of the original Mouseketeers (and no relation to “Head Mouseketeer” Jimmie Dodd). You just never know where someone’s life is going to go no matter how they start out, do you?
(October 2010)
