Augie Johnson, a member of Side Effect, formed the Boppers in Los Angeles in the mid-'70s to back his stylish, knickers-wearing group who had inked with Fantasy Records. The Boppers, consisting of Robert Griffin, Kenny Davis, Ed Riddick, Ed Luna, and Vance Tenort, cut their own Fantasy album entitled The Boppers in 1978. Unfortunately, neither it nor the singles "Everybody Wants to be a Star" and "Something Missing" were successful.
They switched to Mercury Records in 1980 and became the L.A. Boppers. The lineup also went through some tinkering and now consisted of Tenort (l...