For those unaware, out of circulation since 1976, the recordings of the Los Angeles rock band Mogan David and His Winos will finally be available again on March 6th, 2026. The group’s lineup featured a who’s who of heavyweights in the American music industry, including Harold Bronson and Richard Foos (co-founders of Rhino Records), Paul Rappaport (Columbia Records), and Mark Leviton (Rhino/Warner Music Group).

Additionally, the band included Jonathan Kellerman, a New York Times bestselling author known for his series of novels starring the fictional child psychologist Alex Delaware. Started in high school by Bronson, a music-obsessed Los Angeles native, the Winos’ band name was derived from the Mogen David Wine Company, inspired by those crazy band names from the psychedelic era, such as Jefferson Airplane and Strawberry Alarm Clock.

The Savage Young Winos LP received some national attention, with Creem Magazine’s Lester Bangs writing, Side one’s at least as listenable as Roxy Music ... Hooracha and more power to ’em. By 1974, Bronson was working as store manager at the new Rhino Records retail store on Westwood Boulevard. In collaboration with the store’s owner, Richard Foos, Bronson’s Kosher Records evolved into a new independent label, also named Rhino Records.

For most of their first decade, the Rhino label was very much a D.I.Y. affair, with Foos and Bronson licensing recordings from other more-established companies for re-release. By 1984, Rhino was proving itself a major player in the reissue market, re-releasing dozens of oldies collections.

The 2026 release of Savage Young Winos follows its predecessor by an amazing 53-year gap. Bronson, who also serves as producer for the project, decided to leave off four songs from the earlier release that he felt hadn’t stood the test of time. They have been replaced with a pair of demo tracks, additional live recordings from the period, and two tracks from a Winos’ reunion session in 1993.

CD and download include a 24-page booklet with extensive liner notes and rare photos. LP includes the same notes and photos in a 4-page insert.

1. Street Baby
2. Party Games
3. Nose Job
4. The Big War
5. I’m An Adult Now
6. Cover Girl
7. Have Nagila
8. Beauty Queen
9. Love Potion Number Nine
10. All The Wrong Girls Like Me
11. Savage Surf
12. I’m Just A Kid From The Midwest
13. Where Do I Go From Here
14. Glad All Over
15. Communication Breakdown
16. She’s Not There
17. Down The Road Apiece
18. Street Baby ’73
19. Berkowitz Blues

This brilliantly affecting flashback of an musical adventure kicks off with the alt-pop of Street Baby, the indie-hued Party Games and the jangly jesting of Nose Job, and then comes the countrified ramble of The Big War, the free-flowing pop-rock of I’m An Adult Now, the melodious Cover Girl, the .39 second guitar-led, surf rocker Have Nagila, before we are then gifted the jaunty Beauty Queen and then one of my favorite songs growing up (albeit the version sung by the Tygers Of Pan Tang) Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller’s brilliant rocker Love Potion Number Nine.

Along next is the poptastic All The Wrong Girls Like Me, the guitar-surfer Savage Surf and the low slung and boxy I’m Just A Kid From The Midwest, which are in turn backed by the ambiently dulcet Where Do I Go From Here, their rockingly vibrant cover of the Dave Clark Five hit Glad All Over, their pulsating rendition of Led Zeppelin’s Communication Breakdown, the set rounding out on The Zombies’ She’s Not There, the rockabilly sounds of Down The Road Apiece, and both the live cut of Street Baby ’73 and the lowdown and acoustically slung bluesy studio take of Berkowitz Blues.