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"Come a Little Bit Closer" is a song by the 1960s rock and roll band Jay and the Americans. It reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 on November 21, 1964, making it the band's highest-charting single. [1] It also peaked at number 4 on the Cashbox chart and at number 1 on RPM's singles chart.
Jay and the Americans are an American rock group who formed in the late 1950s. Their initial line-up consisted of John "Jay" Traynor, Howie Kane (born Howard Kirschenbaum), Kenny Vance (born Kenneth Rosenberg) and Sandy Deanne (born Louis Sandy Yaguda), though their greatest success on the charts came after Traynor had been replaced as lead singer by Jay Black (born David Blatt) and Marty ...
"Come a Little Bit Closer" Released: June 30, 1964 Come a Little Bit Closer is the third studio album by the American rock group Jay and the Americans , released in 1964 by United Artists Records .
Pages in category "Jay and the Americans songs" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total. ... Come a Little Bit Closer; Crying (Roy Orbison song) D.
Kenny Vance (born Kenneth Rosenberg, December 9, 1943) [1] is an American singer, songwriter, and music producer who was a founding member of Jay and the Americans.His career spans from the 1950s to today, with projects ranging from starting doo-wop groups to music supervising to creating solo albums.
Jay Traynor left in 1962 and Jay Black came in as the new lead singer. In the following years, the Americans would garner more hits such as This Magic Moment, She Cried, Come a Little Bit Closer, and Cara Mia. Deanne remained in the Americans until their split in 1973. Like the other members of the group, he went on to tour as a solo artist.
During the 1960s, Jay and the Americans had hit-after-hit including; "Come a Little Bit Closer" in 1964, which hit #3, and "Cara Mia" in 1965, which hit #4. Following the Americans split in 1973, Kane continued to perform, as a solo artist. Howie was inducted, as a member of the Americans, into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2002.
"Cara Mia" is a popular song published in 1954 that became a UK number 1, [1] and US number 10 hit and Gold record for English singer David Whitfield in 1954, and a number 4 hit for the American rock group Jay and the Americans in 1965. The title means "my beloved" in Italian.