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Timex Social Club

Timex Social Club

Timex Social Club has been played on NTS in shows including The Low Bias Show , featured first on 3 January 2014. Songs played include Rumours, Thinkin' About Ya and Thinkin' About Ya.

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.

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Timex Social Club

Timex Social Club has been played on NTS in shows including The Low Bias Show , featured first on 3 January 2014. Songs played include Rumours, Thinkin' About Ya and Thinkin' About Ya.

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.

Original source: Last.fm

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Rumours
Timex Social Club
Liberation Records1986
Thinkin' About Ya
Timex Social Club (Danny Dee mix)
Mercury1986
Thinkin' About Ya
Timex Social Club
Mercury1986
Rumours (The Shep Pettibone Re-Mix)
Timex Social Club (Shep Pettibone mix)
Mercury1986