The Johnston Brothers
The Johnston Brothers were a British vocal troupe who is best known for her number one hit Hernando 's Hideaway from the year 1955.
Band History
As a " project" in the hit parade
The Johnston Brothers were not brothers and originally just another project of Johnny Johnston, of the vocal group The Keytones already initiated in 1948 with changing singers. ( Among other Cliff Adams was for a time a member of the Keytones before he founded the stargazers. ) The composition of the two combos went running into each other; the main difference was that the Keytones a female voice ( including prolonged time Pearl Carr and Jean Campbell) had it. Another important difference: unlike the Johnston Brothers had the Keytones never a chart hit.
The "brothers" were founded at Johnny Johnston, Alan Dean and Denny Vaughan; they made in 1949 under this name recordings for Decca Records. Their first record was the title theme of the film Jenny ( Portrait of Jennie ), and before the introduction of the official recorded music sales charts they were in the charts for Sheet Music ( Sheet Music chart ) very successful with songs like That Lucky Old Sun, Tennessee Waltz or Blowing Wild. Soon she also sang backing vocals for various singing stars such as Reggie Goff, Lita Roza and Suzi Miller. Your harmony emphasized pop in the style of Four Aces or the Stargazers brought them in April 1953 their first official chart hit, Oh, Happy Day.
The number -one hit
In 1954 the musical The Pajama Game ( Richard Adler and Jerry Ross of on the novel 7 1/ 2 Cents by Richard Bissell ) great success on Broadway. Two of the songs from this musical were too often gecoverten standards of the 1950's - Hey There ( a U.S. number -one in 1954 for Rosemary Clooney ) and the Tango Hernando 's Hideaway ( U.S. number - two in 1954 for Archie Bleyer and his Orchestra ). Both songs publications include Johnnie Ray as A- and B- side of a single; in the UK made the the Johnston Brothers. While Ray's A-side Hey There in Great Britain and Northern Ireland debuted at # 5 and the B-side "only" ranked 11, it brought Hey There by the " brothers " not in the charts - but was Hernando 's Hideaway for them to their single number -one hit. The four singers were at that time the most successful Johnny Johnston, Frank Holmes, Harry, " Miff " King and Eddie Lester.
Other successes
Another of their best sellers was the single No Other Love, cover of a 1953 U.S. hits for Perry Como which, however, in the UK was a number -one hit in a version of Ronnie Hilton. Successes celebrated the Johnston Brothers with two medleys, Join In and Sing Again and Join In and Sing (No. 3 ) in which they interpreted popular pop classics like Sheik of Araby, Yes Sir, That's My Baby, Charleston, or Alexander 's Ragtime Band.
Johnny Johnston
Johnny Johnston (actually John Reine, * 1919, † 10 June 1998) was founded after the Second World War, together with Mickey Michaels Musikverlag Michael Reine Music, who also published his own songs. He was the founder of the Keytones and the Johnston Brothers. With changing singers but Johnston was also responsible for the vocal groups The Johnston Singers or The King's Men, the choral singing for recordings by various artists of the 1950s delivered (including Vera Lynn, Pearl Carr or Jimmy Young and Billy Cotton's band). He wrote hits for other stars of the 1950s; one of his most famous works was The Wedding of Lili Marlene, a "continuation" of the international German World War I hit song Lili Marleen.
From the second half of the 1950s to Johnston moved to the composing and producing advertising jingles - in the field of advertising in television and radio, he became one of the most sought-after experts. For brands such as Kleenex, Heinz, Shell and many other Johnny Johnston Jingles produced Ltd. in his own Cine - Tele sound studio sound for commercials - in total there were about 4,500 jingles, until he retired from the labor force. Johnston was considered in the industry as King of the Jingle.