Rumors is the third album by the North Carolina band Arrogance

Arrogance (band)

Arrogance is a rock band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In the 1970s and early 1980s it was one of the most popular local bands in the state . The group has released six full length albums in its history and an early non-LP single...

, released in 1976 (see 1976 in music

1976 in music

-January–February:*January 5 – Former Beatles road manager Mal Evans is shot dead by Los Angeles police after refusing to drop what police only later determine is an air rifle....

). It was their first album on a major label, Vanguard Records

Vanguard Records

Vanguard Records is a record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York. It started as a classical label, but is perhaps best known for its catalogue of recordings by a number of pivotal folk and blues artists from the 1960s; the Bach Guild was a subsidiary...

. In 2000, Don Dixon released all of Arrogance's albums on his own label, Dixon Archival Records. The version of "Rumors" contained two bonus tracks, demos of "Open Window" and "Final Nickel" recorded at Charlotte's Reflection Sound Studios in 1975.

Track listing

Side One

1. We Live to Play (Dixon) - 00:25
2. Sunday Feeling (Kirkland) - 3:56
3. Final Nickel (Dixon) - 3:04
4. Two Good Legs (Kirkland) - 3:27
5. Dying To Know (Kirkland) - 4:17
6. Open Window (Kirkland) - 3:48

Side Two

1. Why Do You Love Me (Dixon) - 2:57
2. Lady Luck and Luxury (Dixon) - 4:08
3. Pitchin' Woo (Kirkland) - 2:33
4. I Doubt It (Dixon) - 3:37
5. It's Sad (But You Can't Really Hear Me at All) (Dixon) - 3:34

Personnel

• Sanford Allen – Concert Master, Strings, Violin
• John Anthony – Producer
• Ann Barak – Violin
• Don Brooks – Harmonica
• Scott Davison – drums
  Drum kit
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  , Percussion
• Don Dixon – bass
  Bass guitar
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  , vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  , Arranger, Calliope, Conductor, Guitar, Percussion
• Jules Halfant – Art Direction, Design
• Robert Kirkland – Guitar, Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric), Percussion, Vocals
• Charles Libove – Violin
• Kermit Moore – Cello
• Don Nixon – Bass, Percussion, Vocals
• Larry Packer – Fiddle
• John Pintavalle – Violin
• Ann Purtill – Production Supervisor
• Matthew Raimondi – Violin
• Marty Stout – Calliope, Organ, Piano, Tack Piano
• Eric Weissberg – Banjo
• Captain Jeff Zaraya – Engineer