Billy "Crash" Craddock - Rub It In

As seen on Pop Goes The Country

[@ShaneSwaim]

I am a Singer Songwriter from Greensboro, North Carolina and am proud to say that Billy "Crash" Craddock and I are from the same hometown. Crash will always be one of my favorite singers.

[@tcharli1948]

Where is your hometown?

[@Donawho72]

I helped sell him a John Deere mower a few years ago in Greensboro. He came up to the front counter and I said, “Billy ‘Crash’ Craddock!” He looked surprised that I knew who he was. I asked him how he got started in the music industry and we had a good long talk. A very nice and humble man.

[@denisedarling3834]

Opened a show for him in Saginaw,mi..1980ish....I sang for the man who actually organized the show

[@Ruckus_Longhorn]

He is performing in Star NC at the Southern Star June 15th 2024

[@maryhaynes9493]

Haha! My 26 year old daughter listened just now and she said, "and they say songs today are dirty!" Too funny!!

[@davidmoore2325]

Hello dear,how are you doing,how is weather today?

[@HJtollett3]

This is great! As a 12 year old boy in 1974 I remember my mother and her friends singing this song. It has always stuck with me. I think between "Rub It In" and a poster of Burt Reynolds on a bear skin rug my mom must have been in heaven.

[@horseman4now]

That was the first male foldout in a magazine - Cosmopolitan.

[@satanicondevil]

In 1974 I was just a year older than u and was crushing on a 9 year old girl named Diann who was almost as tall as me. She towered over her classmates.

[@kellybrown4875]

Now 47.. This is what my dad raised me up listening to. This is when country music was awesome. Not Like Todays CRAP

[@BryanFink1]

Yea this was 1970s crappy country music.

[@magicmojoman]

Nowadays when you mix country and rap you get CRAP...

[@sauquoit13456]

On this day in 1974 {August 24th} Billy 'Crash' Craddock performed "Rub It In" on the Dick Clark ABC-TV Saturday-afternoon program 'American Bandstand'... At the time the song was it it's first of three weeks at #16 on Billboard's Hot Top 100, that would also be it's peak position on the chart, and it spent 16 weeks on the Top 100... And one month earlier on July 28th, 1974 it reached #1 {for 2 weeks} on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart... Between 1971 and 1989 he had forty-one records on the Hot Country Singles chart, nineteen made the Top 10 with three* reaching #1, besides the above "Rub It In", his other two #1 records were "Ruby Baby" for 1 week in January 1975, and "Broken Down In Tiny Pieces" for 1 week in January 1977... Billy Wayne 'Crash' Craddock celebrated his 78th birthday two months ago on June 16th {2017}... * He just missed having a fourth #1 record when "Easy As Pie" peaked at #2 in 1975...

[@gabriellekeener2933]

My grandpa liked this he always sung it 😂 I miss him

[@64edwardscreek]

I used to be in the Crash Craddock fan club. I've been to his concerts a few times. I saw him perform in Wheeling, West Va. and saw him in the hamburger joint across the street. He was sitting at the counter eating a burger.

[@barbarapenny4657]

My father loved this song.i loved when he would dance to it.

[@litew8]

I was in jr. high school, and this commercial would come on with one of those albums of several artists and their songs. I would love to watch the little snipet of him singing this song and moving his hips. That awakened something in me that I didn't quite understand at the time!

[@donaldmasters6380]

Great song! Crash was underrated as a singer!

[@rodneypattonsr3179]

My parents knew Mr. Craddock way back in the day when he hung sheetrock for a living. Lake Havasu, AZ.

[@billieannhaught9094]

My Mom took me to one of his concerts when I was just a baby, like a few months old and Billy kissed me, she still loves telling that story, I just watched and saw him for the first time, at least he could sing and wasn't bad looking!!So I guess I'm a lucky girl!

[@davidurdahl6656]

Imagine that same story with a "musical artist" today..

[@davelamore6309]

Hello are you doing

[@GeekBoy03]

@@davidurdahl6656 Change that to "president" today

[@Babybluebbw]

Aug 3, 1974 - Billy "Crash" Craddock's signature song, "Rub It In," reaches #1 on the Billboard country singles chart!

[@user-oj1xl6tr3y]

Интересный исполнитель здорово 👍

[@MrColt45s]

we were his backup band at Sunset taveren, Browns Mills N.J. ..Colt45s

[@MrColt45s]

we were his N.J. band in 73 at Browns Mill, Bob, John, Bear & Den... COLT45S

[@dennisbrown3428]

this song hit #16 on the billboard pop charts in 1974 and #1 on the country charts... billy "crash" craddock is the man once billed as the next elvis but couldnt make it in rock,,,his first song peaked at 94 on the billboard top 100 and hes next effort didnt even make the top 100...so he left music and went back into construction...after a few yrs he was back with this smash....

[@mattydminus5717]

Dennis Brown my dad and uncle worked in construction with him. He would sing while they hung Sheetrock, he told my dad, you wait I am going to be on tv and radio, I am going to hit big in country music. Before you knew it. My dad seen him on tv singing. Dad said hey that’s my buddy I worked with that sang all the time. Well I guess he made it on tv singing country music. Lol

[@janiceoneal9542]

I love how you sang that song ❤😊😊😅😅

[@barbdel56]

Everyone was singing Rub it In! Rub it In when this came out.

[@davelamore6309]

Barb Delawder hello how are you doing

[@taiweight8]

My mother 'loved' Billy Crash Craddock. She would listen to his songs over and over.

[@Marakesh7]

Great song. I wish Elvis had done this 'live'.

[@lakewoodil]

Saw him live at Kings Dominion in VA back in 1975 (I believe) the same year that the park opened. He had the place rocking.

[@user-uv7wm5yy8e]

Ohh i love how u sing this song

[@Marakesh7]

We need more artists like this. Good looking with a strong voice.

[@donna5077]

Renfro Valley. He just played there.

[@davidurdahl6656]

Nope. They all start with "lil" and you can't understand them.

[@krimmins6765]

You know the generation before you said the same thing when you were a kid too

[@krimmins6765]

He is not good looking wtf is he wearing

[@TinaKent-us8kx]

My mom loved this song

[@SuperBeachbum74]

spent summer of 1974 at the beach when this song came out

[@320parks8]

SuperBeachbum74 got out the army party Myrtle Beach. girl's juke box favorite.

[@lennybuttz2162]

I remember the first time I heard this song on the radio I couldn't believe they were playing it on the radio, it sounded so dirty.

[@ernestking5049]

My God, EXACTLY how I felt..

[@snowps1]

Me too! I couldn't believe it!

[@horseman4now]

I got fired as a DJ in a small town for playing "You Can Keep Your Hat On" sung by Joe Cocker. To be fair, it WAS a Sunday morning at 10:00 A.M., on the only radio station in town...

[@lauralea6542]

Damn he's 🔥

[@davelamore6309]

Hello how are you doing?

[@ladyvet1977]

Been a long time since I have hear this one. Still makes me laugh.

[@davelamore6309]

Mary Lynch hello how are you doing

[@Naminski1a]

Refill your Glade Plug-Ins every 45 days to keep your home Glade fresh. “Plug it in, plug it in.” SC Johnson Wax, A family company.

[@user-uv7wm5yy8e]

Ohh my my your gorgeous

[@elainestoffer6178]

BILLY CRASH CRADDOCKS AUGUST 3 1974 BILLY'S SIGNATURE SONG RUB IT IN IT WAS NUMBER ONE ON THE BILLBOARD COUNTRY SINGLES CHART I LIKE BILLY CRASH CRADDOCKS I LOVE THIS SONG'S RUB IT IN I LOVE HIS HAIR AND HIS YELLOW PANTS SUITE I WAS 23 YEARS OLD WHEN I HEARD THIS AND I WENT CRAZY OVER THIS SONG BILLY IS AWESOME IN THIS THANK FOR SHOWING THIS ONE'S

[@davidmoore2325]

Hello dear,how are you doing,how is weather today?

[@denisewaghorn1116]

Billy Crash Craddick love that song Rub It In and the way he sings it ❤️❤️

[@davelamore6309]

Denise Waghorn hello

[@judithc8831]

Love crash ❤️❤️❤️🌻🌹💋

[@ZJ-ne9kn]

Ik some purists hate this era of country music im not the biggest country music fan compared to other genres but this era was the most fun and last years i enjoyed it. Interesting also how many of these country artists started out as rockers.

[@jeffduncan9140]

70s through about the mid 90s is for sure my favorite country music.

[@paulmcclung8185]

He is good. Good voice. Can feel his music. This song puts a smile on your face.

[@Bdoublesharp]

They say there is nothing new under the sun.....Looks enough like Billy Ray Cyrus and has that same 'Achy Breaky Heart' sound, rhythm and feel !!

[@violetdraga256]

What a good looking man

[@davelamore6309]

Violet Draga hello how are you doing

[@RKoen2006]

I just bought one of his vinyl records in a Elvis suit love any thing Elvis so tooked a chance he's cool

[@djthedj3238]

More memories of the sixties and the nites on the beach under ole man moon.''''''I"M sure you remember this number one hit on the survey for ten weeks back in early seventies by none other than Billy Crash' Craddock.

[@cricketdawn]

i have an old cassette tape of him that has this song at the beginning of side a and then on side b has the song "you rubbed it in all wrong" as the first on that side i think it's hilarious

[@millerforester6237]

I am from Greensboro. I knew Billy, long time ago. "Mohair Sam". He just dropped out. Never figured out that one.

[@rummycakes]

My mom had won tickets to a concert with him , Crystal Gayle & Freddy Fender, and I was her date... I still remember , I was about 7 at the most , and he took his shirt off , had a bottle of lotion , and invited the audience to come up and rub it in..lmao , I ran up on stage and rubbed lotion on his back.

[@SteveL-qw4rp]

plug it in plug it in

[@Deejayboy]

I had just started at WAFL radio in southern Delaware and this was one of the most requested songs in the summer of '74.

[@2yellowmustang]

My kids say the same thing about me singing and dancing to his music back then!

[@Squank63]

Happy Birthday, Crash. You made G'Boro NC proud.

[@jwgreek8606]

remmber this? Plug it in Plug it in that's where it came from!

[@letaphillips6540]

my family seen him at a fair many many years ago! He did put on a great show!

[@cathielavarnway64]

oh good Lord, have mercy on my soul......................xo love it

[@bobbydee9496]

Cathie Lavarnway. Check out Bobby Dee doing this song.

[@keepersink9905]

Yeah

[@grannylow6664]

What a classic!

[@terriking433]

Love this song

[@KevinWhitfield-fb9tc]

Groovy and informative!

[@gjmason3754]

Great song memorys from the past author norman would sign this song when I was a kid to funny Thumbs up

[@user-uv7wm5yy8e]

Love thar song

[@richarhclark5662]

I THINK HE WAS A SINGER IN HIS TIME. LOVE HIS MUSIC

[@guyaushk]

Great song...love the yellow pants suit!

[@rustimccollum]

Love it

[@crunch992]

AWESOME!

[@lindaimai4462]

Nothing like good song listen to

[@mljones655]

There is a Rub It In near Augusta GA!! Thumbs up to this song and a fine C & W bar and grill with LIVE music on the weekends!!

[@davelamore6309]

Hello

[@mljones655]

@@davelamore6309 hi

[@davelamore6309]

Marlene Jones how are you doing, hope you are safe from the virus

[@davelamore6309]

Marlene Jones how are you doing

[@davelamore6309]

Marlene Jones hope you are safe from the virus?

[@maryevelynshea9325]

Gotta Love this Song

[@richard52402]

Man, i wish i still had this , but Billy had a live album out a long time ago that he did all Elvis songs. As i remember it was pretty good..

[@arleneoldfield1917]

one of my favorites when i was a teenager

[@georgebolkovac7935]

Ooh baby, rub it in!!!!

[@straitmoo]

I heard this on the radio today! I forgot how funny it was!

[@TheRkhe]

loved this song when i was a kid

[@davelamore6309]

Rhonda Holloway hello

[@Nanas3World]

I have a pic this good looking man ! i feel proud to be standing next to him .....rubbing it in !

[@DaveWollenberg]

'Crash' hit #16 in Billboard, 8-24-74. God bless ya, for postin' it. Thanx!

[@tootsiebrown1890]

Love it ☺️😂

[@cindywylie1526]

love it

[@davidmoore2325]

Hello dear,how are you doing,how is weather today?

[@pattifanalwayz]

Plug it plug in in

[@Squank63]

Happy 72nd Birthday, Crash!

[@mariellemartin9380]

Saw him in Toronto in the mid seventies. He opened for Loretta Lynn.

[@tbirdman1994]

Still a good song, saw him in person in Ft.Wayne,IN

[@Dandymancan]

This was played at my good friends funeral believe it or not

[@connie6062]

I believe a lot of moms danced in the kitchen while cookin,, how many of us remember getting caught by her to dance with her? I remember bein embarrassed back then, but I sure have fond memories of it now,,,

[@user-uv7wm5yy8e]

Ohh yea all of it billy

[@tinasanders7054]

In the mid 70s my mom and dad took my older brother and me to all his concerts I even met The Tennisians then had my pic taken with Willie Wynn back then I was 7 or 8 still have the pic and I met one of crashes band members Forest Carson he was back stage playing on a piano and i had a crush on him so i was a bit bashful but I watched him play

[@ForeverTCB]

I can picture Elvis Presley singing this. Closest I’ve heard is Bill Cherry singing it

[@LindaMontgomery-ob5uf]

He was my first concert thanks to my aunt gaile

[@debbiestephenson9896]

❤❤

[@tendraftsdeep]

Not a mention of INXS - Kick 1987. Best long player of the year, and still rockin

[@Riahsha]

Ooh! Thank you! I was a little bitty thing when this came out, but I still remember seeing him on these country shows with my mom in the '70's.

[@jackieemler8311]

Rub it in! Let's do Summer!

[@monsterjamrocks1]

My mother likes this song!!! :)

[@beckynorris4078]

He can sing the pants off any girl love it

[@Dontarguewithmedummy]

Tool tool tool damnit. The tool Kieth ubran. That tool doodle!

[@wayne3302264]

ahhh, the 70's

[@uncle-jj_real]

*sniffs* Dang. Somebody change that Glade Plug-Ins refill.

[@brucemcclain7160]

my wife love this song

[@nancydickson6202]

My Mom and I went to Ponderosa Park. at that time you could wait by the bus doors, I was crying , I thought my My Mom was leaving me , They opened the bus doors and he was in a white outfit covered in Rhinestones and although I was young he left a impression on me, Ponderosa Park is in Salem Ohio almost after I gre up I sold Time shares and met many stars

[@Ian-of9oi]

Plug it it plug it in

[@Naminski1a]

SC Johnson.

[@majajh]

The clothes and hair are killing me!

[@mistycole2622]

Oh my laud

[@milber60]

It's been a pretty long time when this song was released and I (a Bavarian as fuck) recorded it on my tape machine. A great sond and I tried to translate it. And everything was good but "Put it on my back, on my for you roaring sack and on my always nonense twaddling chin" I did'nt understand these lyrics (bad english and no headphone) but I wanted to have some sense in what I sang. And really: we played this song about 20 years with MY lyrics. Remember: we had no internet and nobody knew this song!

[@crazyburkey3677]

dedicated to all the honeys at the oriental health spa and Fuji sauna

[@jerryridley4114]

The country Tom Jones. 😀😀

[@songsingingman]

Does any one have a copy of the song can you hear me? I had it on an album years ago. He did a really good job on it . It went can you hear me does my voice go that far I wanted you to know they finally made me a star. It might have been called my mama never heard me sing. Thanks,Alvie

[@patriciacarrell8813]

Dream weaver

[@davidmoore2325]

Hello dear,how are you doing,how is weather today?