any relation to The Mickey Mouse Club’s Jimmie Dodd? I’m guessing his son ??
Dick Dodd was a mouseketeer.
http://www.originalmmc.com/dickie.html
Dick was a first season replacement Mouseketeer, hired for his dancing and musical talents. He was one of the few true amateurs that first year, but stayed with the show for only six months. He later became a member of the surf band, the Bel Airs, then joined the Standells, a sixties garage band whose best-known hit was Dirty Water, as lead singer and drummer...
...Dick 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 occasional 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....