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Jay & The Americans is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of The Tokens, Barry Mann, The Drifters and The Ronettes. Those roots explain a lot about how Jay & The Americans arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah, Blue Swede, The Raspberries, Norman Greenbaum and Tommy James & The Shondells, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Paul Revere and the Raiders, The Turtles, Johnny Tillotson, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 37 connections around Jay & The Americans, reaching back through The Tokens and forward to Paul Revere and the Raiders. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Jay and the Americans are an American vocal group who were popular in the 1960s. Their initial line-up consisted of John "Jay" Traynor, Howard "Howie" Kane, Kenny Vance, and Sandy Deanne, though their greatest success on the charts in the United States and Canada came after Traynor left and once Jay Black and Marty Sanders joined the group; Black replaced Traynor as lead singer. They were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2002.
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Jay & The Americans connections
Jay & The Americans grew out of The Tokens, Barry Mann, The Drifters and The Ronettes, shares an orbit with Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah, Blue Swede, The Raspberries and Norman Greenbaum, went on to shape Paul Revere and the Raiders, The Turtles, Johnny Tillotson and Walter Becker. 37 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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