Jay & The Americans - Greatest Hits [CEMA] (1991) torrent

This is the same torrent that was uploaded to Demonoid in May 2008.


Jay And The Americans - Greatest Hits [CEMA] (1991)

Includes:
Files by track, ripped at FLAC 8 using Easy CD-DA Extractor (www.poikosoft.com)
Tracks have full tags (including embedded thumbnail).
All artwork in jpgs at 300 d.p.i. Rotated and cropped losslessly.
AMG Review.txt
Notes.txt (which is simply these notes included in the torrent)

Bio Excerpt from All Music:

Though they had a bunch of hits across the 1960s, Jay & the Americans were a throwback to a previous era in their doo wop-influenced vocals, neatly groomed, short-haired appearance, and mix of pop/rock with operatic schmaltz. ...

... -- came off as sort of hit parade versions of West Side Story. The group also relied on outside songwriters for its material, drifting into MOR covers of oldies by the end of the '60s, and was generally a sort of textbook of unhipness during a time when self-contained rock bands were becoming the norm. In a sense, Jay & the Americans were the original "oldies" act -- organized at the transition of the 1950s into the 1960s, the group sounded like a throwback to that earlier decade, at a time when harmony vocal groups -- at least those without some guitar wattage accompanying them -- were already becoming old hat. ....

To read the entire bio:
http://wc05.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:aifoxqe5ldae~T1

Album Review by Bruce Eder:

As far as it goes, this 26-minute CD is pretty good, as a sort of bite-sized account of the group's chart hits -- about the same length and ten songs that an oldies station might program in a "special" on the group's history. The mastering is better than decent, which is a surprise, as this release pre-dates the general upgrade that began in the mid-'90s -- the group's tracks always translated well to CD, in any era of the format, and only "She Cried" doesn't quite measure up to the quality of the rest. There are no notes at all, not a surprise considering the seven dollar list price, but if this material isn't reasonably self-explanatory, then there's no '60s rock music that is.

Track List:

01. She Cried
02. Only in America
03. Come a Little Bit Closer
04. Let's Lock the Door (And Throw Away the Key)
05. Think of the Good Times
06. Cara, Mia
07. Sunday and Me
08. Crying
09. This Magic Moment
10. Walkin' In The Rain

More album detail at:
http://wc05.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:abfuxqw5ldse