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Original lead singer of Jay (Traynor) & The Americans singing their first chart hit "She Cried" at an oldies concert in Birmingham, AL in July 2007.
Jay Black was the second, and more widely known, Jay to lead the band Jay and the Americans, the first being Jay Traynor. Black had previously come from the doo-wop group The Empires, where he had sung lead on their 1962 lone Epic Records single "Time and a Place" b/w "Punch Your Nose" (Epic 5-9527). He had previously used David Black as his ...
24. Okt. 2021 · He replaced Jay Traynor in 1963, a year after the group’s first hit, “She Cried,” climbed to No. 5 on the chart. Mr. Black’s signature song was “Cara, Mia,” a romantic ballad that ...
8. Aug. 2007 · Jay Black is actually the stage name of David Blatt, a young Brooklyn singer who changed his name to Jay Black in 1963 when he replaced Jay & the Americans’ original lead singer, Jay Traynor.
25. Okt. 2021 · Born on November 2, 1941, Black replaced original singer John “Jay” Traynor in the New York group after their first hit, the No.5 US pop success “She Cried” in 1962.
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Jay Traynor. Mitch Margo. Bill Reid. The Tokens were an American doo-wop band [1] and record production company group from Brooklyn, New York City. The group has had four top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, all in the 1960s, their biggest being the chart-topping 1961 hit single "The Lion Sleeps Tonight".
Sandy called his boyhood Brooklyn friend Howie Kirschenbaum (Kane), and the then unnamed Jay and The Americans was formed. John “Jay” Traynor was born in Brooklyn, New York March 30, 1943, and moved with his mother to Mineola on Long Island in 1959 where he formed his first group The Ab-tones. Then on to the Mystics and then to the un-named ...
