Editing Jay and the Americans (section)

===Sale of the band name and "reunion"===
[[File:Americans2008.JPG|thumb|250px|The group backstage at [[Massillon, Ohio]] (August 2008) L-R Sandy Deanne, Jay Reincke, Marty Sanders, Howie Kane.]]
In 2006, Jay Black filed for bankruptcy due to gambling debts, and his ownership of the name "Jay & The Americans" was sold by the bankruptcy trustee to Sandy Deanne (Yaguda), Black's former bandmate and original member of Jay & The Americans, for $100,000.  With the name purchase, former members Deanne, Howard Kane, and Marty Sanders reunited, and recruited a sound-alike singer from Chicago, coincidentally nicknamed "Jay."  Thus, John "Jay" Reincke became the third "Jay" and the band returned to playing both national and international music venues.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://danspapers.com/2014/05/jay-and-the-americans-suffolk-theater-saturday/ |title=Here Comes a Classic! Jay (No. 3) and the Americans to Sing at Suffolk Theater Saturday |work=[[Dan's Papers]]}}</ref> 

Until 2017, David Blatt continued to tour under his stage name, "Jay Black".<ref name="CBS"/> In a 2014 interview, he announced that he had Alzheimer's;<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://forward.com/schmooze/207574/how-jay-black-got-kicked-out-of-yeshiva/|title=How Jay Black Got Kicked Out of Yeshiva|website=Forward.com|date=October 22, 2014 |access-date=June 12, 2021}}</ref> he continued to perform until 2017.  [[Kenny Vance]] is currently the lead singer of [[Kenny Vance and the Planotones]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.planotones.com/ |title=Kenny Vance and The Planotones|website=Planotones.com |access-date=January 5, 2012}}</ref> a neo-[[doo wop]] band that he formed in the 1970s. After leaving the group, [[John "Jay" Traynor|John Traynor]] recorded a handful of songs on the Coral label, including "I Rise, I Fall" in 1964. None were hits, but "I Rise, I Fall" became a minor hit for [[Johnny Tillotson]]. The label billed Traynor as "JAY formerly of Jay and the Americans." Traynor toured with Jay Siegel's [[The Tokens|Tokens]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KYYvJuDHEo |title=Jay Siegel talks about being sued by Phil & Mitch Margo of THE TOKENS ("The Lion Sleeps Tonight") |publisher=YouTube |date=September 17, 2010 |access-date=January 5, 2012}}{{cbignore}}{{Dead Youtube links|date=February 2022}}</ref> until shortly before his death on January 2, 2014.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://wnyt.com/article/stories/S3267379.shtml?cat=300 |title=Former singer, WNYT employee Jay Traynor dies |publisher=[[WNYT (TV)|WNYT-TV]] |location=[[Albany, New York]] |date=January 2, 2014 |access-date=January 2, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103104154/http://wnyt.com/article/stories/S3267379.shtml?cat=300 |archive-date=January 3, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Black died on October 22, 2021, from complications of pneumonia and dementia. In a statement, Jay and the Americans acknowledged that Black and the rest of the group had experienced "both wonderful and very contentious times" but that they respected the success that they achieved with Black as their lead singer.<ref>{{cite magazine|url = https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jay-black-jay-and-the-americans-singer-dead-obit-1247111/|title = Jay Black, Jay and the Americans Singer, Dead at 82|magazine = [[Rolling Stone]]|date = October 23, 2021|accessdate = October 23, 2021|last = Kreps|first = Daniel}}</ref>