LA Dream Team

The L.A. Dream Team was a hip hop group based in Los Angeles, California, active 1985-1989, 1993, and 1996. The group was founded by Chris "Snake Puppy" Wilson and Rudy Pardee in 1985. They are known for being one of the early hip hop acts on the West Coast and one of the pioneers of the West Coast hip hop scene.

L.A. Dream Team
OriginLos Angeles, California, U.S.
GenresHip Hop, Electro, R&B
Years active1985-1996
LabelsDream Team Records, MCA
Associated actsDarryl Strawberry, UTFO, The Real Richie Rich, Lisa Love
Past membersSnake Puppy
Rudy Pardee (Deceased)
The Real Richie Rich
Lisa Love (Deceased)
Big Burt
Robin Williams (The Robin)
Tanisha Hill (Tish Jones)

History

The group was formed in the early 1980s by Rudy Pardee and Chris "Snake Puppy" Wilson.[1] The duo formed their own Dream Team Records label, going on to release their own records and also releases by other California rap artists.[1] Some of the group's best known early releases are "The Dream Team Is in the House", "Nursery Rhymes" and "Rockberry Jam". The group expanded later with Lisa Love, The Real Richie Rich and Big Burt. In 1986, the group signed with MCA Records who released their albums, Kings Of The West Coast (1985) and Bad To The Bone (1986). In 1986, Lisa "Miss Rockberry" Love died in an auto accident. The group replaced Love with two female artists: Robin Williams (The Robin) and Tanisha Hill (known as Tish Jones). The newly formed lineup recorded the 1989 album, Back to Black, also released by MCA Records.

By 1986, as electro music began to receive more mainstream coverage, the group's popularity began to wane. Their popularity was further diminished by the rise of West Coast gangsta rap in the early 1990s. LA Dream Team briefly resurfaced in 1993 under the name DTP (Dream Team Posse), issuing a few new singles, including "Rockberry Revisited", an updated version of "Rockberry Jam".[1] Chris Wilson went on to a career in video and music production.[1] Pardee worked in computing, working for Universal as a business services analyst, and later a project manager.[2] Pardee later formed the group, Family Dream, featuring former Dream Team members Big Burt, Tanisha Hill and The Robin. The group was signed to Motown Records.[3] Rudy Pardee died in a scuba-diving accident in 1998.[1]

On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed LA Dream Team among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.[4]

Discography

Singles
  • "Calling on the Dream Team" (12") (1985) Dream Team
  • "Rockberry Jam" (12") (1985) Dream Team
  • "The Dream Team Is in the House" (12") (1985) Dream Team
  • "And the Orchestra Plays" (12") (1986) MCA
  • "Hollywood Boulevard" / "You're Just Too Young" (12") (1986) MCA
  • "Nursery Rhymes" (12") (1986) MCA
  • "The Dream Team Is in the House" (12") (1986) MCA
  • "Citizens on Patrol" / "Hollywood Boulevard" (12") (1987) MCA
  • "Rudy and Snake" (12") (1987) MCA
  • "Pitchin a Fit" (12") (1988) MCA
  • "She Only Rock and Rolls" / "Stop To Start" (12") (1988) MCA
  • "Doin' the Nasty" (12") (1989) MCA
  • "You're Slippin" (12") (1989) MCA
  • "The Bounce" (12") (1991) Dream Team
  • "100 Proof (To the Zoom)" (12"), (cassette), (compact disc) (Excello Records) (1993)
  • "Rockberry Revisited" (1993)

Albums

Television

References
  1. Kergan, Wade "L.A. Dream Team Biography", Allmusic, Macrovision Corporation
  2. "L.A. DREAM TEAM IS IN THE HOUSE Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine", West Coast Pioneers
  3. The Gavin Report (PDF). Warner Brothers Records, Inc. 30 January 1987. p. 30 http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Gavin-Report/80/87/Gavin-1987-01-30.pdf. Retrieved 28 April 2015. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. Rosen, Jody (25 June 2019). "Here Are Hundreds More Artists Whose Tapes Were Destroyed in the UMG Fire". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
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