Here’s more about my history, current music career, and links to web sites.

Johnnie Gee story is the stuff of which legends are made.

It is a saga that began in America’s heartland at age 13 in Milwaukee Wisconsin, where Johnnie Gee was born on September 29th, 1959 to Elgie and D.W Gee, into a family of seven brothers and sisters.

James Kirchstein produced LP’s and singles from 1959 until the early 1970s. While the company’s bread and butter came from its vast catalog of polka and ethnic LP’s, Cuca also recorded pop, rock ‘n’ roll, rhythm & blues, folk, and traditional jazz, with an output of over 1000 45-rpm singles. Because most of the artists were from Wisconsin or adjacent states, the Cuca recordings present a concentrated view of the area’s ethnic and popular music.

Johnnie Gee has promoted his career for over 30 years and still has a strong presence among his fans. At age nine, Johnnie recorded his first single with Step By Step; by age 13 he was already earning his own living as an entertainer. After 37 years, Platinum Records, Brunswick Records, Cuca Records and Sidetraxx Records have brought back the classic early sounds of Step By Step and Johnnie Gee

When Mama Gee, herself a blues lover, noticed her sons’ growing interest in music and performing, she devoted herself to the careful development of their nascent talents. Through hard work and dedication, Johnnie, Dewitt, Jerome, these three brothers and other friends became the hottest band in the Midwest, “The Exclusive ‘Step By Step’ Band”.

The group began performing professionally in and around Milwaukee and Chicago in 1969; later that year, the siblings took their polished song-and-dance act to New York’s famed Brunswick Records, the home of Jackie Wilsom, The Chilites, Bohannon, Tyrone Davis, Shalamar, Eugene Records, Decca Records, Chess Records and many more that started record labels worldwide.

Any way ‘The Step By Step Band’, turned the place out, winning over Nat Tarnopol and a label contract with Brunswick Records. The staff reaction was welcoming , the founder of the New York-based Brunswick Records, Nat Tarnopol, then the most successful rhythm and blues label around. Captivated by what they saw and heard, Nat signed the group immediately. Thus began one of the most successful runs by a recording group in soul, pop, rhythm and blues music history out of the Midwest.

Check Out The “Time After Time”, Video published by: Johnnie Gee
at Youtube.

Find out more history by visiting these links:
http://www.myspace.com/johnniegee
http://www.gecomgroup.net
http://www.gecomcorpinter.com

Thank you, and God Bless,

Johnnie Gee