Track Listing

1. Let's Pretend - Bay City Rollers, Carmen, Eric
2. You're a Woman - Bay City Rollers, Faulkner, Eric
3. Rock 'N Roller - Bay City Rollers, Faulkner, Eric
4. Don't Worry Baby - Bay City Rollers, Wilson, Brian
5. Yesterday's Hero - Bay City Rollers, Vanda, Harry
6. My Lisa - Bay City Rollers, Sciuto, Tony
7. Money Honey - Bay City Rollers, Faulkner, Eric
8. Rock 'N Roll Love Letter - Bay City Rollers, Moore, Tim
9. Write a Letter - Bay City Rollers, Wood, Stu
10. Dedication - Bay City Rollers, Fletcher, Guy
11. I Only Wanna Be With You - Bay City Rollers, Hawker
12. Love Me Like I Love You - Bay City Rollers, Faulkner, Eric
13. Mama Li - Bay City Rollers, Faulkner, Eric
14. Maryanne - Bay City Rollers, Fletcher, Guy

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #103385 in Music
• Released on: 2004-04-12
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import

Album Description
2004 reissue of the Scottish pop/rock band's 1976 album features 14 tracks including 4 bonus tracks, 'I Only Wanna Be With You', 'Love Me Like I Love You', 'Mama Li' (B-side of 'Love Me Like I Love You'), & 'Maryanne' (B-side of Money Honey'). Includes 8-page sleeve with liner notes, photos & memorabilia. BMG.

Customer Reviews

BCR Dedication
Another one of my favorte BCR albums- not quite the same as the American
version but I really loved Ian Mitchell's version of the song "Dedication" as opposed to Les McKeown's version.

Awesome album
One of the first albums I ever bought. The songs are great, you can't go wrong buying this one.

The good, the bad, and the Raspberries cover
1976 was the big year in North America for the Rollers. "Saturday Night" broke big at the beginning of the year at No. 1 on the U.S. charts ironically enough after failing dismally 3 years previous in England (although the '73 single was a much weaker recording with a different singer).

"Dedication", although in it's original U.S. release contained a different track listing than the one here, was the first proper album to be released stateside and was even recorded on this side of the pond in Toronto. Their glory days in Britain were pretty much over at this point, but Rollermania was peaking in the U.S. and Canada... yet this album did little to continue that trend.

"I Only Wanna Be With You" and "Rock 'N Roller" were minor hits (and good songs), but failed to go anywhere near the heights of the charts that "Saturday Night" had scaled, and signaled the beginning of the end of "Rollermania".

The problem with this album, as was the problem with all of their albums, is inconsistency and an obvious polar conflict between lightweight fluffy bubblegum-pop and hard-rockin' above-average power pop. When the Rollers chose to rock, as best exemplified in tunes like "Yesterday's Hero", "Rock 'N Roller", and (included as bonus tracks on this release) "Rock 'N Roll Love Letter", "Money Honey", and "Mama Li"... they did it with a certain finesse and Power-Pop perfection.

Then there's the embarrassingly BAD fluff-pop songs like the title track, "You're A Woman", "Write A Letter", "My Lisa", and the terrible steel-drum cover of Brian Wilson's classic "Don't Worry Baby"... that makes me hit the fast-forward button just as fast as I can. The only song on this album I would consider being the middle ground between awesome and awful would be the somewhat decent cover of the Raspberries' "Let's Pretend".

If only these guys could have gotten proper management who would have steered them in the right direction at the right time then perhaps they wouldn't be remembered (unfairly) as a one-hit wonder like so many people here in America do today. All in all... "Dedication" is one of their better albums, and probably their most well-produced... not a bad album, but not what I would call essential.

NOTE: This was the first Rollers album to not feature original bassist and founding member Alan Longmuir, who was replaced by a much younger Ian Mitchell.