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Singer, songwriter, record producer, record distributor and record company owner Roy Charles Hammond was born in Newington, Georgia, on August 3, 1939. He began singing tenor in the vocal group The Genies and can be heard on their recording “Who’s that knocking”. The lead vocal of that recording was by Claude Johnson, later one half of the duo Don and Juan. The record was The Genies’ only hit, making no. 72 in 1958.

Hammond was called up for the US forces and served with the US Air force. On release in 1965 he returned to New York and used money he had saved during his service to finance the track’s production that year. “Shotgun Wedding” was first released in the UK on Island WI 273 in 1966 before finding its way to Sue compilations.

Hammond recorded more than one hundred recordings and most of them feature his own songs, but he never repeated the success of “Shotgun Wedding”, and many of the titles were too outspoken for many.

For many years he ran Carolina Record Distributors.

Roy C Hammond died in Allendale County, Southern Carolina, on 16 September, 2020. His daughter told the New York Times that he had died from cancer of the liver.

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