Chris Morgan and The Togas - Would You Believe

Late last week we shared a single by a little known Southern California band called The Togas. You can check that out here. We return today with the band's only other record. This time released under the moniker of Chris Morgan and The Togas. Would You Believe was written and composed by Chris Morgan and appeared as the Flip-Side of their May, 1966 release on Challenge Records.

Until next time, we'll see you On The Flip-Side!

Video Diary - Them live on French TV doing Mystic Eyes and Gloria

Video Diary - Them

The Togas - Hurry To Me

Not too much information about this band that went by the name of The Togas. I do know that the members were Chris Morgan on vocals, Brian Decker and Doug Decker on guitar, John Metheny on drums and Peter Parker (not spiderman) on keyboards. The band hailed from Southern California and released two singles on the Challenge Records label. Hurry To Me is their first, released August, 1965. Hurry To Me is the Flip-Side of a perfectly okay cover of Bob Dylan's Baby I'm In The Mood For You. Our featured song today, Hurry To Me, was composed by our frontman, Chris Morgan. The party dude on the right in the picture below. Producer Nick Risi also gets credit...but we are always suspect about producers getting writing credit. Feels more like a shakedown to me.

Until next time, we'll see you On The Flip-Side!

The White Stripes - Hand Springs

The White Stripes' Hand Springs was originally released as the A-Side side of a split single in 2000 on Extraball Records. A group called The Dirt Bombs got the other side. It was released in a batch of only 2000 and given away free with Multiball fanzine, a Pinball fanatics wet dream of a publication. The single was released to a larger audience on Third Man Records in 2012. That's what you see here.

It's one bitchin' number from the always creative, Jack White. Meg White, of course, outshines Hal Blaine, Ginger Baker, Keith Moon, and Gene Krupa with all their combined talents.

Until next time, we'll see you On The Flip-Side!