What do you think Moxy Früvous' new record company is gonna say when they find out a rival label is also releasing Moxy's controversial Rush Limbaugh ditty to market?
Last week we told you how WEA Music was hurrying along the group's send-up of radio rightwinger Limbaugh, seeing it as a logical single, based on reaction from airplay on CFRB. The novelty tune's been rush-recorded for Moxy's first official album release. But in less than two weeks, WEA rival BMG Music is delivering a compact disc called Up Front - Canadians Live from Mountain Stage to stores. It's a sampler of homegrown folkies and acoustic groups who've performed for the popular U.S. public radio live concert series. Guess which tune the label has decided to work as a "focus" track, the album's foot in the door to radio?
It's Moxy's Rush Limbaugh tune - The Greatest Man in America - just as Früvous performed it last year! One group, one hot song, on two different major record labels, both rushing it to radio. Hilarious! Oh, but we'd love to be a fly on the wall at WEA this morning. Get those a cappella brats on the phone...
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