Song:We Belong Together
Album:We Belong Together
We Belong Together was the only big hit for the doo wop duo of Robert Carr and Johnny Mitchell. In the video, Mitchell is the one with the guitar. Though they were billed as from The Bronx, it appears that Mitchell was born in Detroit and went to high school in The Bronx. In 1954, Carr was a member of The Royal Tones who were all students at Morris High School in The Bronx. They auditioned for Atlantic Records VP Jerry Wexler. They would have got a contract but one of the members couldn't get parental consent. So The Royal Tones split up and group leader Eugene Tompkins formed The Limelighters with Carr and Johnny Mitchell who sang and played guitar. And Mitchell and Carr began to write songs together. The two signed with Hy Weiss' Old Town label and they were billed as Robert & Johnny. They recorded plenty of songs which are all on this Ace Records comp. But We Belong Together was the only song that caught on. It reached #32 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1958. Robert & Johnny continued to record on Old Town and then Sue until 1963. And it looks like Carr quit the music business at this point. It looks like Mitchell moved back to Detroit. He was a member of The Majestics, The Freeman Brothers who were neither brothers or named Freeman. The duo was Johnny Mitchell and Gerald Williams. And the other group he was in was The Four Hollidays. Nothing Mitchell tried seemed to work. We Belong Together turned out to be his only big hit. Here's Robert & Johnny performing We Belong Together on Dick Clark's Saturday Beech Nut Show Apr. 12, 1958.
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