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With his dark good looks and his operatic delivery, he affected a Reach-for-the-rafters voice and his dramatic delivery. The daytime talk show host, asked him his name, and Douglas repeatedīlack, raised in an Orthodox family, had sung as a youngster with theĬhoir of Cantor Moshe Koussevitzky. There are differing accounts of how he got the name Black there’sĮvidence he was using it professionally before he joined Jay and theĪmericans, but he insisted he muttered “Jay Blatt” when Mike Douglas, There was a condition: Blatt had to take on the first name Jay. Group that had scored a single hit in 1962. To take the place of Jay Traynor, who had quit Jay and the Americans, a Kupersmith, who knew Blatt from the Jewish doo-wop circuit, asked him He was selling shoes in 1962 or 1963 at Thom McAn when a buddy, Marty In an interview with The Forward, he admitted being tossed out of three yeshivas as well as New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn.Īs Ron Kampeas wrote for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, In 1966, he recorded a Yiddish song "Where Is My Village" about the Holocaust. Jay and his brother spoke Yiddish fluently. In his later career, he was known for touring New York State and Florida, singing, mainly solo, and preceding his singing with a stand-up comedy routine. On October 22 the world of pop music lost one of its biggest stars, Jay Black, lead singer of the group Jay and the Americans, who died at 82.īlack was born as David Blatt in Astoria, Queens and grew up in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Borough Park.