Rumors was Jay King´s greatest Hit on Jay Records and ended up in "Lean on me" by Club Nuveau. On Jay Records he also released Active Boys.
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How are You? All right ?I wait for this. Timex Social Club's Rumors/Vicious rumors,was my first single in that year,I was sixteen years old and starting my first step like a DJ,in this age,I was very poor(I'm still poor,I don't have money),I didn't have pick-up or special stereo,to listen my records,very after,I have one this. This song make my life,on a good times,when I was young,because I don't forget it. God bless every one.
Here's a little known factoid, the song RUMORS, was written in 1983 by Marcus Thompson, Alex Hill, Michael Marshall and recorded as a cassette demo tape. The demo was shopped to various music artists, producers, record lables and even garnered local airplay at the college radio station of the University of California at Berkeley: KALX 90.7FM before being heard by producer Jay King (Club Nouveau) in December of 1985. By January 1986, the group enetered the studio to record RUMORS in a marathon 20+ hour recording session. Rumors hit the airwaves in April of 1986 and was first shunned by Urban Radio due to it's brash sound and the fact that it was on an independent black owned record labled: Jay Records . Since the group hailed from the Oakland/San Francisco Bay Area, they promoted it highly in their hometown and hoped that the local Urban stations would play their hit, none did. By May of 1986, a young program director named Terry Avery of KKDA 104FM in Dallas Fort Worth heard RUMORS and added it to the stations playlist and it caught fire! Other Urban Radio stations across the country took notice and followed suit by adding RUMORS as well. Rumors then entered the Billboard HOT BLACK/R&B Singles Charts, and on July 13th of 1986 reached the number #1 spot and held there for 2 weeks. Rumors also hit Billborard's Top 40/POP charts and broke the to 10, by reaching the #8 spot.
The Timex Social Club was a US group formed in 1982. Its members Gregory Thomas, Marcus Thompson, Kevin Moore, Michael Marshall, Craig Samuel, Darrien Cleage, and Alex Hill specialized in both old school rap and the merger of urban R&B with hip-hop rhythms, which was later known as new jack swing. The group was signed to Danya records, and their only album Vicious Rumors was released in 1986. Vicious Rumors had only one major hit on it, "Rumors", which hit #8 on the Hot 100, with Michael Marshall as the lead singer. The two following singles "Thinkin' About Ya" and "Mixed-Up World" both reached the R&B top 20. Soon afterwards, their producer Jay King replaced them with a new band that he formed, an R&B group called Club Nouveau. After 5 years of being together, the Timex Social Club broke up.