By 1962, The Blue Genes were working full-time and playing skiffle at venues in Liverpool and at the Star Club in Hamburg. However the German audiences booed them off the stage, and the group rapidly changed direction and focus. They switched to rock and roll, and with a name change to reflect their attire, to The Swinging Blue Jeans. This earned them a recording contract with HMV. Their recording debut was with a Ray Ennis penned original, "It's Too Late Now," which made the UK Top 40. An album "Hippy Hippy Shake" was released in 1964 by EMI on their HMV label. In Canada it was issued by Capitol Records, and in the US on Imperial Records. "It Isn't There" is a track from that album, and one of the better ballads of 1964.
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