This episode is "Friday 45" and features Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers. The band released Rumble in 1988, followed by Guitar Trouble in 1990. Conwell ended up in Philadelphia and The Hooters’ producer Rick Chertoff got Conwell and the Rumblers signed to Columbia and he produced “Rumble” After the band released their first album on their own “Walkin’ on the Water” in 1986, which was produced by Conwell and The Hooters’ bassist Andy King.
They had two radio hits in addition to the featured 45, with "If We Never Meet Again", and "I'm Seventeen". In 2019, Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers finally released a new studio album, their first in nearly 30 years, called Showboats and Grandstanders
Today's song was a #1 US mainstream rock radio hit in 1988 and peaked at 74 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart. It is a greasy, raw enough to love, cowbell-infused, crunchy guitar rocker called "I'm Not Your Man". It was the best thing anyone would hear from the band. Not enough to make them big stars, but big enough to be remembered. We do.
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