Roy 'C' - Shotgun Wedding
Shotgun Wedding / I Am Gonna Make It
Roy ‘C’: Shotgun Wedding / High School Dropout (Island WI-273), 1966
The first recording we heard from Roy C in 1965 was the fabulous ‘Shotgun Wedding’ a gunshot sounds then the Wedding March plays. and for a few seconds the dancers hearing this track at the Twisted Wheel for the first time are stunned, just the reaction that Roger the DJ had in mind, he was laughing as Roy sings “people are standing all around…” and they were and then they danced, and Roy had a hit at the club in Manchester. Then a few months later it reached the UK Top Twenty. However, his first recording as Roy Hammond & the Genies ‘Mama Blow Your Top’ for Forum Records wasn’t a hit at all.
Of course, marrying a girlfriend due to her pregnancy was a very common event in those days prior to birth control pills so maybe it gave the dancers pause for thought…
People were standing, all around,
at a shot gun wedding, here in this town,
and I’m a victim, oh yeah, of a shotgun wedding,
’cause your father’s got a gun and there ain’t no place to run,
shotgun wedding, and oh .. yeah.