Listeners. It reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1964, making it the band's highest charting single. Fantastic! Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 5, 2019. Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2012. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 5, 2018. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. The single served as a comeback for the group, who had not had a hit in some time. Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. 855.6K. This album has a selection of great songs, Jay has a great voice singing some standards such as Tonight, Some enchanted evening, ,Cara mia, and Roy orbisons Crying, listing to the whole album takes me back to a time in the 60s when the sun seemed to shine every day ,the pirate stations where stil on the airways and the music was perfect and this album brings it all back for just over an hour. Download our mobile app now. Still can't get over how long he holds the note on Cara Mia Mi. Pepper & Son®, Inc. *All prices are subject to publisher revision, /item/detail/J/Come A Little Bit Closer/10679874E. Far better than the microphone swallowers that parade on the so-called telly talent shows. Editors' Choice Fantastic! My husband and I grew up listening to Jay and the Americans. 1,489 listeners Play album Skip to YouTube video. The group was not as popular here in the UK as in the USA but listeners to the pirate radio stations will remember some of the songs Cara mia not only a song that shows off the voice range of the singer but also how to hold a note for some time. As star, director, producer and screenwriter of Gravity, she wasn’t sure how he’d managed more than a handful of hours of sleep a night since production began. Play artist More actions. Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2020. several hit greats are missing on this one...be sure to read product info completely before buying this one to determine just what may be missing. I became interested in their music after hearing Johnny Duncan and Janie Fricke's cover of Come a little bit closer. document.write(new Date().getFullYear()); J.W. e: Summing it up, this is an absolutely essential CD purchase for Jay & Americans fans everywhere. Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2017. Our current phone hours are Monday-Friday 9:00-6:00 ET. While it can easily be read as a stand-alone story, you'll likely enjoy reading the other books, too. Start the wiki. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 4, 2015. i would have never bought this selection had i noticed what was missing. There are a few real gems here, especially tracks 2, 8, 9, 9-11, 15, 18 and 21. Jay & The Americans - Hal Leonard Corporation Come A Little Bit Closer. BUY THIS CD, "LOCK THE DOOR, THROW AWAY THE KEY", AND ENJOY! Vinyl, Original recording, January 1, 1960, Previous page of related Sponsored Products. A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. COME A LITTLE BIT CLOSER is part of Bella Andre's #1 bestselling series about The Sullivans. Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. Style: Country. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. They’d supported him from the start of his career and had helped his movies gross nearly two billion dollars worldwide. Few 60's groups recorded as many pop-rock masterpieces [as well as a slate of 'merely' above average hits] than did Jay and the Americans. Listen to your favorite songs from Come A Little Bit Closer: The Best Of Jay & The Americans by Jay & The Americans Now. Please try again. 2:46 PREVIEW Things Are Changing. The actual CD even has classic United Artists label- look. HIGHER THAN HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION! JAY + THE AMERICANS, GARY PUCKETT + THE UNION GAP, JOHNNY MAESTRO. A very successful sixties group in America, they never charted in the UK where they remain virtually unknown. Incredible TLC went into every detail. Come a little bit closer was the first major hit with Jay Black as lead singer, reaching #3. In a little cafe just the other side of the borderShe was just sitting there givin' me looks that made my mouth waterSo I started walking her…. 2 revealed", (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me, Please Help Me I'm Falling (In Love with You), I'll Need Someone to Hold Me (When I Cry), He's a Heartache (Looking for a Place to Happen), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Come_a_Little_Bit_Closer&oldid=976010818, Song recordings produced by Billy Sherrill, Pages using infobox song with unknown parameters, Articles with unsourced statements from November 2018, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, "Loneliness (Can Break a Man's Heart)" (Duncan only), This page was last edited on 31 August 2020, at 17:46. Click to review . In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. 155.1K. Has all their good stuff on it and I especially like "Some Enchanted Evening" which is one of my all time favorite songs.