Jay and the Americans Quotes

When I was about fifteen, I started a group called the Harbor Lights, and we came by subway [from Brooklyn] into Manhattan to the three famous buildings that you would go to and try to audition for the record companies. It was a time when if you had a hundred bucks you could conceivably make a record that would sell a million copies. Record labels like Columbia, Capitol, and RCA didn't really want to put this kind of music on their label. They had...artists like Patti Page, people that weren't rock.
Kenny Vance

In those days an engineer understood how to mike a room. It was like Weegee taking a photograph - you had one chance to capture what was going on in the room... you can "hear the room" in those recordings. When we did it, it was stereo - you had two tracks and you had to put the lead vocal on one track and just about everything else on the other track.
Kenny Vance

I had left Jay and the Americans and I recorded a song [in 1975] with Joel Dorn for Atlantic Records called "Looking for an Echo" (which, though it took 20 years, became a cult classic in that particular genre of radio), but because of that record I was called out to California to work on the movie about Alan Freed, American Hot Wax.
Kenny Vance