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Re: Dan Mason Makes a Move « Result #2 on Nov 10, 2009, 7:30pm »
From Radio-Info.com:
CBS Radio head Dan Mason extends his current three-year contract
Mason re-joined CBS Radio as President/CEO in the Spring of 2007 and now CBS announces he's agreed to an extension of his deal. That word comes as CBS Corporation promotes current CBS Radio CFO and Senior Executive VP of Operations Anton Guitano to the new post of Chief Operating Officer of the new CBS Local Media division. He'll report to Dan Mason, to CBS Corporation President/CEO Les Moonves, and to newly-named President of the TV division Peter Dunn. CBS recently revealed that it's subdividing the company into five operating divisions, with Radio going into the new Local Media unit. More online at Radio-Info.com.
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Re: The Rugbys "You, I" « Result #4 on Oct 4, 2009, 7:26pm »
Phony Pics?? Wow, and all this time I thought they just looked different because they were much younger. I'm not surprised that you haven't heard from "Music Mike." Based on what I've seen on his YouTube homepage he does appear to be quite busy.
Re: The Rugbys "You, I" « Result #5 on Oct 2, 2009, 3:04pm »
Bruiser is right here, lol.
Interesting thing about that video is the only pics of the REAL Rugbys are on the Hot Cargo album. None of the other pics are The Rugbys. Not the phony pics of the group called Th Rugbys. They even use The Rugbys logo. Nor the guys whose pic shows up first. They look familiar, but I can't place them. I e-mailed the guy who put the song and vid up about it, but never heard from him.
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Re: The Rugbys "You, I" « Result #6 on Sept 30, 2009, 3:31pm »
I wonder if it sounds any better on their "Hot Cargo" album?
Sounds like a question for Bruiser, but I don't know if he gets over this way these days.
By the way, I always liked the actual "A" side of that 45 better (Stay With Me) and can't imagine why it didn't take off when CTW pushed it on WKLO back in the day.
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Re: The Rugbys "You, I" « Result #8 on Aug 30, 2009, 5:00pm »
It's been my understanding that according to Steve McNichol (lead singer for The Rugbys) they were not having any luck with the "A" side of "Stay With Me" and it was WKLO's Carl Truman Wigglesworth (Program Director at the time) who suggested trying "You, I" on the "B" side and that's when it took off like a rocket. I've never heard anything regarding an accidental flip of the 45, but these stories have been passed around for 40 years now and you know what that does to stories.
If you'd like to hear "You, I" check out this cool "Music Mike's Flashback Favorites" video on YouTube at:
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The Rugbys "You, I" « Result #9 on Aug 27, 2009, 5:18pm »
Thanks to Randy Davidson for the info below:
This year is the 40th anniversary of The Rugbys national hit, "You, I".
With all the coverage of the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, I thought it may be of interest to mention a local band's climb up the national music charts in the late summer of 1969.
The song reached #24 on the Billboard Hot 100, and #21 on Cashbox. It remains, to this day, the highest charting ORIGINAL song by any Louisville recording artist on the Billboard Hot 100 Pop/Rock singles chart.
The record was released on the local Tara label. "You, I" was originally the "B" side of the record. "Stay With Me" was the intended "A" side, but a WKLO radio disc jockey accidentally flipped the record over and played "You, I", and the station's switchboard went crazy. Within days, "You, I" became the A side, and went to number 1 on WKLO. The record was picked up for national distribution by Shelby Singleton's Amazon record label based in Nashville.
This Jimi Hendrix-inspired song quickly went into medium to heavy rotation on Top 40 AM stations across the nation, and was played right along side The Beatles' "Come Together/Get Back", The Stones' "Honky Tonk Women", Tommy James' "Crimson and Clover", and the 5th Dimension's "Aquarius". I was 17 at the time and traveling on a family vacation throughout the southeast. We heard the song being played on every Top 40 station in every city we drove in to: Atlanta, Birmingham, Jacksonville, Tampa, Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, and many others.
The single was included on The Rugbys album "Hot Cargo", which is a highly sought-after collector's item on eBay.
The fact that a local "B" side on a small label went soaring up the national music charts is remarkable, considering the competition at the time, plus the fact that there was no FM rock radio of any significance. Those people at Woodstock who happened to have transistor radios with them at the concert, would have heard Louisville's Rugbys blasting out of their radios that summer.
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