ROY C. HAMMOND & HIS GENIES "Who's That Knocking?"

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Roy C (alternatively Roy-C or Roy "C") (born Roy Charles Hammond, 1939, Newington, Georgia), is an American southern soul singer, songwriter and record executive, best known for his 1965 hit, "Shotgun Wedding".This short-term group's recording career lasted three years and five singles; they broke up a year after they started recording in 1958, but Warwick Records issued canned material til 1961. The original members, Roy Hammond, Bill Gains, Alexander Faison, and Fred Jones formed in 1956. They didn't record until Brooklynite Claude Johnson came aboard. Johnson, the only member not from the Long Beach area, named them "The Genies". He had sung with a Brooklyn group that included Eugene Pitt, who never sang with The Genies. Bob Shad, the owner of Shad Records saw them singing on a beach and invited them to audition for his label. The result was "Who's That Knockin'," recorded in June of 1958; but Shad Records didn't release it until March 1959, nearly a year later. It did well R&B but wallowed on the lower rungs of the pop chart at #71.Then without warning, second tenor Bill Gains ran off to Canada with a woman and has never been seen or heard from since. This occurred while The Genies were playing their first big engagement at New York's Apollo Theater; it was three days into the gig when Gains vanished.

The Genies answered their debut with "No More Knockin'" on Hollywood Records, then Warwick Records released three singles after the group became history: "There Goes That Train" b/w "Crazy Love," "Just Like The Bluebird" b/w "Twistin' Pneumonia," and the best, "Crazy Feeling," in 1961. By the end of 1959 The Genies was a memory. Hammond cut a string of solo records as "Roy C", and his biggest was "Shotgun Wedding," a #14 R&B hit. Claude hooked with Roland Trone and enjoyed a monster #7 Pop hit with "What's Your Name," as "Don & Juan". Johnson also became a songwriter of note, composing The Genies' debut, the Don & Juan hit, and 57 other titles registered with B.M.I. (All Music Guide)

Career:

He began singing tenor with The Genies, a vocal group in Long Beach, Long Island, who were offered a recording contract by the record producer, Bob Shad. Their first single, "Who's That Knockin'", reached #72 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1958,[1] with Claude Johnson (later of the duo Don and Juan) on lead vocal. The group then moved to Atlantic Records, with Hammond taking over as lead singer, but their recordings were not released, and he was drafted into the Air Force.When he returned to New York in 1965, Hammond organised a studio session to record his own song, "Shotgun Wedding", and released it under the name of Roy Hammond on his own Hammond label, before leasing it to the larger Black Hawk Records under the name Roy C. The record, with its novelty ricochet opening and relatively risqué subject matter for the time, reached #14 on the national R&B chart.[1] It had even greater success when issued in the UK, reaching #6 on the UK Singles Chart in 1966 and #8 when reissued in 1972.[2] His first album was That Shotgun Wedding Man (1966) on Ember Records.[1] (Wikipedia)

trax:

01 Who's That Knocking? 02 The First Time 03 No More Knocking 04 On The Edge Of Town 05 There Goes That Train 06 Crazy Love 07 Just Like The Blue Bird 08 Twistin' Pneumonia 09 Crazy Feeling 10 Little Young Girl 11 Mama Blow Your Top 12 It's Getting Cold 13 Where Did You Go? 14 Chicken Necks 15 Come Walk With Me 16 S'cuse Me Lady 17 Shot Gun Wedding 18 I'm Gonna Make It 19 Dance Girl 20 High School Drop Out 21 Gone, Gone, Gone 22 Stop What You're Doing 23 Tear Ave Avenue 24 Last Opportunity 25 Train Man 26 Bad Habits

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