Stolen from another forum where someone found the actual yearbook and scanned them:

i would have given anything,to have been there

someone on the other forum pointed out that the bassist is wearing half a shirt...

Love thier tunes - love the 'joke' from whoever compiled the yearbook too!

Love thier tunes - love the 'joke' from whoever compiled the yearbook too!

yeah, the yearbook staff seem like total jerks

someone on the other forum pointed out that the bassist is wearing half a shirt...

I think they should have paid more attention to the fact he's the guitarist and not the bassist. Come to think of it, he's probably the guy responsible for the legendary Tighten Up guitar line, so he can wear what the f@ck he likes in my book.

so its definately tornados as opposed to tsu toronados ? or are these two different groups ? confused.com

jason

Amazing how their name always gets written wrong - on the first photograph alone it is 'Tornadoes' and 'Toronados' ! both are wrong? as is 'Tornados'

It is 'Toronadoes' isn't it?

Amazing how their name always gets written wrong - on the first photograph alone it is 'Tornadoes' and 'Toronados' ! both are wrong? as is 'Tornados'

It is 'Toronadoes' isn't it?

Whatever they were called Mike they couldn't have been that good .... every f*ckers falling asleep

Atlantic, Volt stuff is Toronadoes - At least one Ovide is Toronados.

Confused.

Love thier tunes - love the 'joke' from whoever compiled the yearbook too!

The yearbook quotes are a lot more entertaining than some dork writing "dropping deep heat funk bombs on y'all"

Name was a conjuction of Texas Southern University (not State) and the Oldsmobile Toronado.

The Toronadoes first formed in 1965 while attending Texas Southern University, where founding members Burns, Hopper and Robert "Cush" Sanders (organ) all happened to live in the same dormitory. Taking their name from their school and the sporty two-door Oldsmobile model (which used the same body type as the Cadillac Eldorado), they recruited Lewis, James Doss (trumpet), Cal Thomas (lead guitar/vocals) and 16-year-old bassist Peter Newman for TSU's spring 1966 talent show.

From the top of page 4 in this 5 page write up ..

https://www.houstonpress.com/2007-12-13/news/the-tsu-toronadoes/