RECORDS
Morgan Records was originally set up in 1968 by Monty Babson and Barry Morgan. The pair had in fact been working together for a while constructing the now legendary Morgan Sound Recording Studios based at 169, High Road, Willesden in London. The studio took shape after Monty Babson had started to receive royalty cheques from Germany and France for The Smoke hit “My Friend Jack” which Monty had licensed out via his Morgan Music publishing company.The Morgan studio was to become the place to record during the late sixties and seventies with bands/artists like Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Kinks, Bowie, Pink Floyd and The Rolling Stones passing through the doors to the various studios.Early 1968 saw the birth of the Morgan Records label which featured London pop music as well as middle of the road vocal and instrumental music but following an initial batch of releases Monty Babson felt the label needed to feature more of the music that was taking hold on the ever changing music scene in London. Late 1968 saw this happen with the birth of the Morgan Blue Town label and along with it the LP releases by Pussy, Orange Bicycle and Motherlight.Unfortunately Morgan Blue Town and Morgan Records were to last only approximately another year due to two major factors. Firstly most of the acts were studio based bands who would find it hard to promote the records and play live shows due to job commitments and secondly, to be honest the label did not attract enough attention to warrant their continuance.
