Together with Thom Wade (guitar and vocals) and Steve Rustad (vocals), Casey Cosby – by now playing the organ – formed a combo called Gentle Thursday; all three were members of the UCLA Glee Club. After changing the band's name to Cage, and wanting to move toward a harder sound, he chose Dora Wahl as the band's drummer; she was a percussion major at Long Beach State.
All of the songs on the Music Emporium album are original compositions, with 8 of the 10 being written or cowritten by Casey Cosby. Four of these were composed by Cosby with Thom Wade, who had been in Gentle Thursday. Dave Padwin contributed "Sun Never Shines". Milt Bulian – who has worked in the field of education for decades and now lives in the Jacksonville, NC area – describes himself as a "groupie" for Music Emporium; he wrote "Times Like This" and had been a member of Brass Plus.
(October 2013)
