The Genies / Don & Juan Who's That Knocking / What's Your Name CD
The Genies were a short-lived DooWop group who dented the US Top 100 in 1959 with their very first release Who's That Knocking, and ceased performing a year or so later after cutting a handful of 45s. Don and Juan were a DooWop vocal duo who registered a massive, million-selling hit with What's Your Name in early 1962, but were unlucky with follow-ups. The link between The Genies and Don & Juan was the lead voice of Claude Johnson, a vastly underrated singer and songwriter who, despite these two brushes with success, remains something of a mystery man. The Genies' other main man was singer Roy Charles Hammond, who later became well known as Roy 'C'. This 26 track collection anthologises all the known recordings of The Genies and Don & Juan to the end of 1962, and also features a couple of Hammond's spinoff Genies-oriented projects. These recordings are all collectors' rarities, many of which are hard to find elsewhere on CD.
