1 hit in the UK Singles Chart in 1955 with their cover version of "Hernando's Hideaway".
The Keynotes remained a popular singing group in the United Kingdom throughout the 1950s, winning several awards but having no hit records.
The Johnston Brothers had a number of smaller follow-up hits in the UK, including the medley "Join in And Sing Again" (1955) and "Heart" (1957), and also recorded with Joan Regan.
[3] By 1956, Johnston had established Johnny Johnston Jingles Ltd., which was responsible for hundreds of advertising jingles in the early years of British commercial television, including "A million housewives every day pick up a can of beans and say – Beanz Meanz Heinz!
", "You can be sure of Shell", and the first ever colour TV commercial in Britain, for Birds Eye peas in 1969.