Robert & Johnny
This R&B duo hailed from the Bronx, New York, USA. Robert Carr and Johnny Mitchell grew up in the same neighbourhood and attended high school together, in a centre of doo-wop culture. Thus, upon their signing to Old Town Records in 1956, their duets captured the sound of the doo-wop groups then currently popular. ‘I Believe in You’ with the duo's trademark approach of sighing and pausing, where one takes the lead and then the two come together on the choruses, established their name in New York City, but not much further west than the Hudson River. We Belong Together, however, established the duo as rock ‘n’ roll immortals, going to number 12 R&B and number 32 pop in 1958. Robert and Johnny, alas, were fated to be one-hit-wonders and ended their recording career in 1962. We Belong Together fared far better, getting revived on the charts in 1966 by Dee Brown and Lola Grant and in 1968 by the Webs.