Dixon House

Dixon House is a Canadian-American singer and keyboardist. Edward "Ted" Dixon House was born and raised in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. In the late 1960s and early 1970s he played in bands like The Hidden Fifth and then his own Ted House Trio. The trio were a popular house band and played continually in clubs around Victoria, Nanaimo, Vancouver and Abbotsford and did two summers on the BC Ferries. Ted moved to Vancouver in 1974. He continued to work with rock groups and joined the group, Songbird. In 1976 he and they caught the interest of Mike Flicker (Heart's producer) who recorded am album for the fledgling Mushroom label. The record never came out, due to the label's preoccupation with its star group, Heart. (One early member of Songbird was Howard Leese, now of Heart. Howard and Dixon have remained good friends, and Howard played all the guitar parts on Dixon's later solo album Masked Madness as well as co-writing several songs.) Dixon relocated to Seattle and moved on to another record label, Infinity, releasing an album "Fighting Alone" with his group Dixon House Band. To support this album they toured much of the U.S. and Canada, sometimes as headliners-sometimes as the opening act, including opening for Rick Springfield. The band were not promoted well and broke up Mentor Mike Flicker, encouraged Dixon to return to the studio in early 1981 where he recorded a solo album "Masked Madness" with some of L.A. and Vancouver's finest session players. Soon thereafter the album was picked up for American distribution by A&M, but failed to sell. Ted went down to Hollywood and did some songwriting with Randy Misner of the Eagles and appeared on the Merv Griffin show before moving back to Vancouver as well as living in Japan for some time.