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Kenny Vance
Kenny Vance (born December 9, 1943) is an American singer, songwriter, and music producer who was an original founding member of Jay and the Americans. His career spans from the 1950s to today, with projects ranging from starting doo-wop groups to music supervising to creating solo albums. The core of Kenny's interest in music was vocal harmony, from the doo wop groups (where he began) to his long tenure as a founding member of Jay & The Americans in the 1960s. From the 1970s on he used his musical knowledge in a series of films while also releasing the occasional solo album. In the 90's he returned to his original love by forming his own neo-doo wop group Kenny Vance and the Planotones. Throughout his career he served as a mentor to a generation of younger musicians that included Walter Becker and Donald Fagen (Steely Dan), Peter Himmelman, John Cafferty and others.
== Early career ==
Vance was born Kenneth Rosenberg in Brooklyn. He grew up hanging around the famous Brill Building, the Tin Pan Alley song machine, and started his first vocal group, the Harbor Lites, at 15. The group recorded two singles for Ivy Records in 1959. He then formed another group and auditioned for Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, who signed them to United Artists Records, and named the group Jay and the Americans. Vance grew up in Brooklyn and later, Belle Harbor, in New York City's borough of Queens, where as a teenager he developed an interest in rock and roll. By the age of 15 he was traveling into Manhattan to hang around the Brill Building, New York's center for pop music and songwriting. He formed his first vocal group, the Harbor Lites, with school friends. Initially a sextet, the group was down to the trio of Vance, Sandy Yaguda and Sydelle Sherman by the time they recorded one single in 1959 "Is That Too Much To Ask"/"What Would I Do without You" on Ivy Records and released on Jaro records and a second single "Angel Of Love"/"Tick A Tick A Tock" on Mala Records in 1960. After those records failed to score the Harbor Lites broke up and Vance and Yaguda formed another group with John Traynor and Howie Kirschenbaum that auditioned for songwriters/producers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. The group auditioned with an a cappella version of "Wisdom Of A Fool". Leiber & Stoller had a production deal with United Artists Records and signed the group to the label. The producer's initial idea was to give the group a comic name and call them Binky Jones & The Americans. The singers rejected that and compromised on Jay & The Americans with lead singer Traynor using his nickname Jay. Jay & The Americans debut single "Tonight", a cover from "West Side Story", appeared in the fall of 1961 becoming a regional hit in the northeast. They broke through to national success with their second single "She Cried" which became a top five hit in 1962. After their third single, and "She Cried" album, Traynor left the group and was replaced as lead singer by David Blatt who took the stage name Jay Black.
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