OUT OF PRINT - ONLY ONE COPY!! FIRST COME, FIRST GETS IT. UK 2fer of 1962 and 1965 albums. Re-mastered, slip cased and new notes . On She Cried: "4 stars.. Early-`60s rock & roll albums are a funny animal -- no one, not critics or fans, ever really knew what to make of them, mostly because they were usually so superfluous to how we knew and understood the artists involved. Except for Elvis Presley, who still commanded a lot of attention even as he began what ultimately proved to be the downward arc (in terms of quality) of his movie career, no one ever heard the album tracks except the most serious, dedicated fans, who were a tiny, almost microscopic portion of the audience. It wasn`t until the Beach Boys began surprising people with album cuts that were almost good enough to be singles that audiences started to given them a wider listen, though it took the Beatles -- who stirred insatiable demand from fans and whose albums met the same standard as their singles -- to drive the sale numbers up to significant levels. Until then, you had fine LPs like She Cried, Jay & the Americans` debut LP, fine efforts that most fans never heard or even knew about. "-AMG On Come A Bit Closer: "3 stars.. This album offers a surprising amount of variety, mostly because three different groups of producers worked on its 12 songs. About half of Jay and the Americans shows just how well the Phil Spector-style Wall of Sound approach to pop music worked with male voices." - AMG
Come A Little Bit Closer - mp3
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