Geno is a song by Dexys Midnight Runners which reached #1 on the UK singles chart for two weeks in April 1980. Too-Rye-Ay (1982) Dexys Midnight Runners – the name consistently spelled without an apostrophe [1] – were a British New Wave and Northern Soul band, who achieved their major success in the early to mid 1980s. ...

Written by Kevin Archer and Kevin Rowland, Geno was the second single from Dexys Midnight Runners and their first number one. A tribute to soul singer Geno Washington, the song's classic soul stylings was at variance with the popular new wave and post punk sounds of the time. Kevin Rowland in the music video of Come on Eileen. Kevin Rowland (born August 17, 1953, in Wolverhampton, England) is a singer, songwriter and former frontman of Dexys Midnight Runners. ... Geno Washington is a British R&B musician who has released five albums with The Ram Jam Band between 1966 and 1969, and eight others on his own beginning in 1976. ... New Wave in the late 1970s and early 1980s was inspired by the punk rock. ... Post-punk was a popular musical movement beginning at the end of the 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the mid 1970s. ...

The song was the first of two UK number one hit singles acheived by Dexys Midnight Runners. The second, two years later, was Come On Eileen. Come On Eileen by Dexys Midnight Runners was the biggest-selling British single of 1989. ...