Editing Jay and the Americans (section)

{{Short description|1960s American rock band}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name              = Jay and the Americans
| image             = Jay and the Americans.png
| image_size        = 250px
| alt               = 
| caption           = Jay and the Americans in 1965. L-R: Kenny Vance, Sandy Deanne, Marty Sanders, Howard Kane and Jay Black
| background        = group_or_band
| alias             = The Harborlites, Chapter Four
| origin            = [[Belle Harbor, Queens]], [[New York (state)|New York]], [[United States]]
| genre             = [[Pop rock]]<ref name="Jay & the Americans | Biography & History | AllMusic">{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jay-the-americans-mn0000809058/biography|title=Jay & the Americans {{!}} Biography & History|publisher=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref>
| years_active      = 1960–1973, 2006–present
| label             = [[United Artists Records|United Artists]]
| associated_acts   = [[Kenny Vance and the Planotones]], [[Steely Dan]], The Tuneful Trolley
| website           = [http://jayandtheamericans.net/ jayandtheamericans.net]
| current_members   = 
* [[Marty Sanders]]
* [[Sandy Deanne]]
* Jay Reincke
* Darren Dowler
| past_members      = * [[Jay Traynor|John "Jay" Traynor]]
* [[Kenny Vance]]
* [[Jay Black]]
* [[Howie Kane]]
}}

'''Jay and the Americans''' are an American [[Rock music|rock]] group who formed in the late 1950s. Their initial line-up consisted of [[Jay Traynor|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 [[Billboard magazine|charts]] came after Traynor had been replaced as lead singer by [[Jay Black]] (born David Blatt) and Marty Sanders (born Martin Joe Kupersmith) were added to the line-up.<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=1997|edition=Concise|isbn=1-85227-745-9|page=667/8}}</ref> They were inducted into the [[Vocal Group Hall of Fame]] in 2002.