Jay & the Americans - Only in America - Feb. 2, 1965 Hulabaloo.flv

[@larryburton9369]

Rest in peace Mr Jay Black such a wonderful voice thank you so much

[@garypamatat3167]

Brilliant live performance of this gorgeous Jay Black and The Americans classic hit "Only In America". I love the dancers they put the groove in to groovy. RIP Jay Black.

[@sarahnewcomb738]

Jay made America Great with great tunes.....Another pride of Brooklyn....U go get em Jay......

[@scdevon]

Good clean TV. Good clean cut American kids.

[@feistyjerseygirl]

​@scdevon except for Jay's addiction to gambling.

[@deaconsmom2000]

My uncle used to play this over and over and over and over. I've just reminded him about that. I still know the words. Do you ever wish you could clear old song lyrics out of your head to make room for math or a second language? I do.

[@jsbach15]

Jay Black's voice is up there in the best ever category!

[@tbamagic]

Sometimes...almost like Roy Orbison's. Sometimes.

[@jimkilleen9130]

No doubt about that either. Puckett is close. Carpenter for ladies.

[@mr.pastry8077]

1965 jay and the americans best song still to come, that was cara mia.

[@captainnuzza]

I’m in Australia and I love this track

[@josephzinna5046]

JAY BLACK, Johnny Maestro, Neil Sedaka should be in the ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME.

[@reevie3463]

Awww! Jay is so cute! He’s so charming and his voice is so gorgeous! Love his smile too! I wouldn’t be shocked if he was actually an angel and he wasn’t a human 😉😂

[@MCombs57]

Jay Black’s voice is just amazing. Love to hear him sing.

[@agua9999]

R.I.P. Jay🥀

[@ddoeser5830]

Fijn Weekend allemáál! Groetjes aan iederéén van de muziek 👋❤🇳🇱🙏

[@ruthlawson581]

Fabulous group fab singer love hisvoice

[@rhylwolves5649]

What a voice

[@nicholascollora6709]

America represents challenges not problems....oh? Opportunity to succeed...love is America!!!!!!- we lead by example...samlpr sample LOVE

[@ptah31]

R.I.P.Jay.. another massive talent lost to time.

[@kevinnelson3525]

I love this version better than the record version.

[@TheSaltydog07]

It is the recording. It's dubbed.

[@notholding2]

rare in that this is truly LIVE!

[@STUCATZOMARINE]

The band playing in the background sounded awesome

[@jeffreysnow2640]

This was Live vocals !!!!

[@stardust_memories2260]

RIP Jay Black 🙏😞❤️⚡🤘🎸🎤🥁

[@suzyqsuzyq]

LOVE THIS!

[@jj3710]

He had one of the best voices of his generation.

[@michaelsonken4803]

Love the " Jay and the American video. Cool song

[@katrinahall2629]

what a great voice

[@georgevogel4116]

What an incredible voice

[@garfieldmaloney3861]

Would love to see a video of the Drifters original version.

[@MrQuaazga]

Sounding great!!

[@broadcasttttable]

Damn...I think Jay's vocals are live! Sounds like a pre-recorded backing track but not his singing.

[@nancyreynolds174]

Thanks, Jay! America is great again!

[@feistyjerseygirl]

He doesn't sing about America being great. He sings about the land of opportunity.

[@jeffclark7888]

Agree.

[@paulveneziano4082]

Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller threw jay black 🐈‍⬛🖤 out of their office and Jay's mother told him to go back 🔙 and tellm " they can't do that to you ! " And the rest is musical history - what a great tremendous amazing terrific incredible and unbelievable group !

[@gomezesmorticia]

I had a sweater like theirs.

[@gs-xx8uv]

So did I.

[@bajemo359]

Tennis sweaters…….and Gant shirts!

[@gomezesmorticia]

Love the dancers

[@Checotahkid1]

OH-WOW High School Flashbacks.

[@essessessesq]

Live----no computers----no "auto-tune"------just people singing!

[@johnwittman4745]

Jay had the pipes to do it.

[@raymondsmith6797]

RIP MY FRIEND!!!

[@Nestor123057]

This song was originally meant to be released by the Drifters, but someone in the record company, thought it a bad idea, given the times. So, it was release under Jay and the Americans. A much better fit, don't you think?

[@samueladams4218]

Idk, I can hear Drifters doing this.

[@paulveneziano4082]

Drifters had a good 😊😁 version of this

[@SEVFEST]

fantastic..... I was 14 when this was televised (turned 15 five months later) what a treat to see this Thank you for posting it

[@carolynsmith1334]

SEVFEST I actually went to school w the original jay traynor from jay and the Americans the original Jay died a few years back

[@hollygarnish1151]

Happy birthday Brothers

[@TheSaltydog07]

He knew John Gotti. He sang at Gotti's daughter's wedding. Thanks for the music. 🌹

[@MackNcD]

My godfather knew Gotti. He worked for the Fort Lee film commission.

[@thelynx6911]

This song will make America Great again.

[@Imissthepostoffice]

The slogan 'make America Great again' was also the slogan used by Ronald Reagan. That's where trump got it from.

[@iluvrachellef]

She will never be great again....this is the end of her.

[@whnook]

I bet the Chinese are crapping themselves.

[@sue08401]

Had a flashback moment - My mom toured with the Mills Brothers as the break pianist. John jr. taught me guitar and for years I made a good buck being 'the band' behind a bunch of do wop groups.

[@williamoverly1617]

Interesting song in the middle of the "English invasion. "

[@LC3123]

This guy was great. I saw him till he died.

[@frankcarone6]

what a great song

[@ack36]

RIP Mr Blatt

[@denisekent3515]

I notice a ring on Jay's hand...was he married at this point?!?!

[@eugenesedita]

Check out those lovely buns.

[@richieb.6558]

In the back of every father's mind they think their kid can do it. I have 4 grown up children I thought that about all of them. I think a poor boy can become a millionaire I did that. I actually married a classy girl and she fell in love with me. She was a lawyer and we have been together over 50 years. I did not agree with Obama but he did become president that says something about our country. The dancers on this show some of them was fantastic one was did choreography for the original Broadway production of a chorus line. One was a lead in it.

[@richieb.6558]

The tall guy in the group is Kenny Vance

[@d.e.b.b5788]

Okay, so who's Kenny Vance? What else did he do?

[@davidanthonylambert9533]

Apparently two guys, peddling their songs, came knocking on his door circa 1967 in the 'JATA' office of the famous 'Brill Building' in NYC - those two guys were Donald Fagen and Walter Becker later of 'Steely Dan' . He managed them for a time and they backed 'JATA' on the road prior to SD formation , keyboards and bass respectively.

[@spindriftdrinker]

Ahhh...the 1960s had the best TV show lip-syncing and air guitar...

[@drrjim]

I don't think the lead singer is lip syncing..

[@jaygamilwatson8529]

In the Pocono’s July 2023. Live show

[@michaelares4240]

The original jay

[@recordguy4321]

originally written for and recorded by the DRIFTERS

[@daviahumphrey1690]

roughtak

[@iluvrachellef]

Yup but black men singing about becoming President wasn't a good feel for racist Amerikkka...i bet pale folks would've wanted blood.

[@njlillycline]

The best television!

[@mihitz100]

Those days when America was great. Not today.

[@MackNcD]

So how’s America doing now😆 We were born in the wrong time…

[@michaelhegyan7464]

The Trump theme...

[@iluvrachellef]

Michael Hegyan yeah if he can do it,anybody can.

[@mobrules29]

@@iluvrachellef Except Hillary.

[@Warrogue1]

@@iluvrachellef Anybody whose dad gives him millions of dollars!

[@dannick1319]

Just think the dancers are now grandparents

[@philipbuckley759]

opportunity...it is "everywhere"....

[@Mikemoto1]

Ironically Anka is Canadian

[@frankcarone6]

my parents where born in italy and then they came to the united states ,i was born here in the united states and i became a multi-millionaire , land of opportunity

[@geoffreylee5199]

Opening song sung by a Canadian.

[@rshaddock]

Jay was the only Black in the Americans. :)

[@sarahford7684]

He looks like the guy who played Superman George Reeves ha, ha

[@NoEgg4u]

The liberal entertainment executives, today, would never allow this song to be published. If he sang this song on a college campus today, there would be riots.

[@jameswilliams8568]

True

[@Nestor123057]

@@jameswilliams8568 The song was originally released as a Drifters record, a Black vocal group, but someone said it wouldn't fly because of the socio-political times. They used the same backtrack and overdubbed Jay's voice. The recording was a little off and they had to speed up Jay's voice to match the backtrack. He often said he sounded like a cartoon character on the record. Listen and you can tell.

[@Tawroset]

RW bullshit.

[@nicholascollora985]

The ladies are in town listen ladies amongst collora s saying we love all of the above..nicholascollora you tube

[@ringo244]

Come on now 2 thumbs down you 2 are nuts.Rock on

[@mungous1000]

Sounds like George Santos' plan.

[@bmccollneb1]

You got to stand sometime.

[@paullynn7994]

NOT AMERICAN PROPAGANDA,THE TRUTH!

[@raymondgill9796]

It is worth reading Leiber and Stoller"s biography about this song

[@whnook]

Of course, only America produces the truth.

[@Nestor123057]

@@raymondgill9796 Originally meant to be released by the Drifters. A record official thought it a bad idea, considering the times. They overdubbed Jay's voice over the sound track, sped it up a little and it became a Jay and the Americans release. Jay often said he hated the recording because his voice sounded cartoonish due to being sped up.

[@tonymatrisin4328]

2018😞

[@Anglynn74]

r.i.p. Jay

[@MynahBoyd]

Jay Traynor (the first Jay) died last week. Jay Black (shown in this song,) is still alive at 75.

[@rickledges4412]

RIP Jay.

[@denisekent3515]

He will turn 80 on November 2, 2018

[@patrickryan1515]

In that America, YES. In today's America a guy can only hope to wake up and become a girl.

[@jesincere8589]

Were these 5 Yid's cool or what? Backgrounds originally recorded by Dee Dee Warwick and Cissy Houston.

[@PAULLONDEN]

When Uncle Sam's one party state was in its beginning stages ......we all had no clue "Our Fine Military" was about to rule "the good ol' U S of A" .......with Jesus' blessings ofcourse ....

[@dnoll8]

Is this from the hullabaloo show vol 9-10? Do you have it without the Asian subtitles?

[@donnyblondy8506]

Donald Trump gotta love this song!! lol

[@LeighMet]

why its everything he hates. a Poor immigrint or just poor guy having sucess

[@gomezesmorticia]

Can you say DACA?

[@CaryG6666]

The Drifters version, with Rudy Lewis singing lead, was much better than this. But it was felt at the time that an African-American group singing about “growing up to be President” was a no-no. So the pre-recorded backing track was given to Jay & the Americans. Nowhere near as good. Rudy Lewis followed Ben E. King and preceded Johnny Moore as a Drifters member, and sang lead for some of the Drifters’ biggest hits and best songs before his untimely and premature death.

[@paulveneziano4082]

Gotta listen 🎧👂 to both versions again 😂😆 - don't know if I agree 😁🎯 - I doubt 🧐 it , though 😛

[@CTJ2619]

I don't think many youngsters dream of being president anymore

[@michaelares4240]

It jay black

[@mic7able]

Which US Prez came from the poorest, shittiest background? Anyone know?

[@Thomas6Anderson]

James A. Garfield was born into poverty. Grew up in a log cabin in Ohio. In spite of becoming President, he was penniless when he was assassinated. Abraham Lincoln was also born poor. (And coincidentally, assassinated.) Lyndon B Johnson was also born poor. The comment in the song is a bit tongue in cheek when you consider the fact it was originally written for, and first recorded by, The Drifters. The original lyrics included the lines: "Only in America, land of opportunity, can they save a seat in the back of the bus just for me. Only in America, Where they preach the Golden Rule, will they start to march when my kids go to school." (This was in the early 60's well before integration.) The record company (Atlantic) had a "problem" with those lyrics and it was rewritten with satirical lyrics. The Drifters re-recorded the song but refused to release it with the modified lyrics as they felt it was a farce. Hence, it was given to Jay & the Americans who recorded it and released it. The song writers were also not happy with the rewritten lyrics.

[@mic7able]

Thomas Anderson Cheers

[@marthalewbel6125]

Thomas Anderson Thanks for sharing this information. You are a fount of information.

[@philipbuckley759]

Harry Truman....Jimmy Carter....????

[@mic7able]

Philip Buckley I can't criticize - some of the British PPB's from early TV are bloody embarrassing stiff upper lipped nonsense.

[@gomezesmorticia]

Where is Donald Trump??????

[@scdevon]

This song should be the Republican 2020 campaign song. It's great. I'm being serious.

[@WildmanfxSTC]

His hair bothers me!

[@Thomas6Anderson]

Jack Duggan - The image that shows before you hit the play button, looks like a sign of 'early onset male pattern baldness' to me..... clearly a receding hair line at the part..... ;)

[@kenc1161]

+Jack Duggan "Brylcreem A Little Dab Will Do Ya"

[@Russ4704]

Mussolini gained power by spouting "Make Italy Great Again".

[@iluvrachellef]

Great concept for a song but not totally factual. I heard that the Drifters were going to do it originally but the concept of a black man singing about becoming President wasn't happening then so they weren't allowed to do it. One half black one in 240yrs made Amerikkka lose it's damned mind smh.

[@OutlawPlay_]

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[@Nestor123057]

True story. They actually used the original Drifters recording and simply overdubbed Jay's voice over it. The timing was a little off. So, they had to speed up Black's voice. He often said he hated the recording because he sounded cartoonish.

[@verlaschupbach8102]

The dancers are horribly distracting and unnecessary.

[@Warrogue1]

All those shows back than had them--Shindig, Hullabaloo, etc.

[@starkenterprises2371]

Hahaha, no they are not!