Jay Traynor



 
John "Jay" Traynor was the lead vocalist for Jay & the Americans when the group scored its first hit single, "She Cried," in 1962. Jay Black, aka David Blatt, took Traynor's place a short while later. Black's voice is the one the song-buying public heard on subsequent Jay & the Americans hits from the '60s, like "Cara Mia" and "Come a Little Bit Closer." Later in life, Traynor sang Frank Sinatra songs with the Joey Thomas Big Band.

Traynor was a star-struck youth who wanted to break into the music business the first time he saw a rock & roll group perform at his high school when he was 15.

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