{"id":320,"date":"2011-07-30T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wyrefarmed.artsrainbow.com\/2011\/07\/30\/emf-tony-morgans-ska-band\/"},"modified":"2011-07-30T14:33:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-30T13:33:00","slug":"emf-tony-morgans-ska-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/wyrefarmed\/2011\/07\/30\/emf-tony-morgans-ska-band\/","title":{"rendered":"EMF – Tony Morgan’s Ska band"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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Tony Morgan<\/b> (known these days as Mojo Morgan<\/b>) was at the school c 1964 \/ 5. Although I remember him at school, he was in a year two below me. I caught up with him again in 1970, just as Free<\/b> were racing up the charts with Alright Now. Tony was the bass player of the Mick Green blues band <\/b>and asked me to write some lyrics for the band. 
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<\/a>In 1980 Tony once again asked me to write some songs for another new band EMF<\/b> which, with the Specials<\/b> and Selecter (Two Tone)<\/b> putting Coventry on the map, was a Ska band. Tony’s concept was to form a Ska band but with blues bass lines. I wrote some songs but Tony got two girl singers in who had their own material. i used to go along to early gigs and start the dancing off – you couldn’t stand still at a ska gig after all!<\/p>\n

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I left Coventry to do my degree up in Teesside<\/i> and noticed that EMF had won the Battle of the Bands<\/i> 1981, had made a single for RCA<\/b><\/span><\/span> <\/span>which was on the Battle of the Bands album. I bought the single. Tony left the band and returned to the blues in the Travelling Riverside Blues Band<\/b> and now lives in South Wales where he is the singer with the ever popular Hoochie Coochie Blues Band.<\/b>
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Donna Elkington<\/b>, vocals.<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Sharron Elkington<\/b>.vocals.<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Jim Allen<\/b>, sax and vocals.<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Mojo Morgan<\/b>, bass.<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Fitzroy Wilson<\/b>, ryth’em<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Leroy Wright<\/b>, drums.<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Dave Gordon<\/b>, lead guitar.<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n

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EMF<\/b> supported the likes of The Specials, Bad Manners, The Beat,<\/b> and the Bodysnatchers<\/b>.
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