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Jay & The Americans is a rock artist from Belle Harbor, Queens, New York formed in 1960. 39 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Rock · Belle Harbor, Queens, New York · Best rock albums
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Sands of Time
1969
Blockbusters
1965
Livin' Above Your Head
1966
Wax Museum
1970
Sands of Time / Wax Museum
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Essential Classics, Vol. 503: Jay & The Americans
2025
Jay & Americans Selection
2020
Anthology: Their Earlier Years (Remastered)
2020
All the Best
2019
Try Some Of This!
2018
Greatest Hits
2018
Live From The Cafe Wha? (Live)
2018
Capture The Moment
2018
The Other Girls
2014
Tonight
2014
Golden Hits
2014
Moon River
2014
Evening Sight
2014
My Clair De Lune
2014
Rock n' Roll Masters: Jay & The Americans
2014
Live & The Unreleased
2012
The Complete United Artists Singles
2011
Greatest Hits of Jay & The Americans
2006
Jay and the Americans / Sunday and Me
2001
Come A Little Bit Closer: The Best Of Jay & The Americans
1990
Come a Little Bit Closer
Single · 1964
What Will My Mary Say
Single · 2017
Hushabye
Single · 2017
Some Enchanted Evening
Single · 2017
Solitary Man
Single · 2017
Let's Lock the Door
Single · 2017
Running Scared
Single · 2017
This Magic Moment
Single · 2017
She Cried
Single · 2017
Only in America
Single · 2017
Cara Mia
Single · 2017
Walkin' in the Rain
Single · 2017
Crying
Single · 2017
Sunday and Me
Single · 1966
Jay and the Americans are an American pop rock group popular in the 1960s. Their initial line-up consisted of John "Jay" Traynor, Howard Kane (né Kirschenbaum), Kenny Vance (né Rosenberg) and Sandy Deanne (né Yaguda), though their greatest success on the charts came after Traynor had been replaced as lead singer by Jay Black. They were discovered while performing in student venues at New York University in the late 1950s. They auditioned for Leiber and Stoller, who gave the group its name. Soon they signed with United Artists Records. With Jay Traynor singing lead, they first hit the Billboard charts in 1962 with the tune "She Cried," which reached #5 (later covered by The Shangri-Las, Aerosmith, and others). The next two singles did not fare as well, and Traynor left the group. Empires' guitarist Marty Sanders (né Kupersmith) joined the group. He brought David Black (né Blatt) of "The Empires" in to take Traynor's place (after David first agreed to adopt the name Jay Black), and Black sang lead for the rest of the group's major hits. They returned to the charts in 1963 with "Only In America," a song originally meant for The Drifters. Other notable hits for Jay and the Americans we…