What's Your Name (Don and Juan song)

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"What's Your Name"
Single by Don and Juan
B-side "Chicken Necks"
Released1962 (1962)
Recorded1961
Genre Doo-wop
Length2:13
Label Big Top
Songwriter(s) Claude Johnson
Don and Juan singles chronology
"What's Your Name"
(1962)
"Two Fools Are We"
(1962)

"What's Your Name" is a popular song written by Claude "Juan" Johnson. [1] Released by the duo Don and Juan on Big Top Records in 1962, it climbed to #7 on the Billboard pop charts. [2] It was their only Top 40 hit. [3]

Chart performance

Chart (1962)Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100 7

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