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Sandy Deanne (born Louis Sandy Yaguda, January 30, 1943) is an American vocalist who has been a member of Jay and the Americans since forming in 1960. Following the death of Howie Kane in 2023, he was the last founding member of Jay and the Americans still touring with the group until early 2024.
Feb 21, 2022 · Jay and The Americans’ Sandy Yaguda celebrates the 60th anniversary of their Top 40 debut. “She Cried” in 1962 was the beginning of ten Top 40 hits for Jay and The Americans. Sandy Yaguda discusses Leiber and Stoller, The Beatles, Steely Dan and Joan Jett. Warren Kurtz. Feb 21, 2022.
In 2006, Jay Black filed for bankruptcy due to gambling debts, and his ownership of the name "Jay & The Americans" was sold by the bankruptcy trustee to Sandy Deanne (Yaguda), Black's former bandmate and original member of Jay & The Americans, for $100,000.
Oct 24, 2021 · Jay Black, whose majestic voice on songs like “Cara, Mia” and “Only in America” made Jay and the Americans a potent force in pop music in the 1960s, died on Friday in Queens. He was 82.
Although I remained in touch with band buddies Jay Traynor, Kenny Vance, and Marty Kupersmith, it was the dream of my oldest and best friend Sandy Yaguda that we try to reunite and take our name back.
Apr 3, 2024 · “We just loved to sing, but in Brooklyn, there were hundreds of groups singing on the corner,” said Louis “Sandy Deanne” Yaguda, one of the group’s founding members. Deanne formed his first vocal group, The Harborlites, while still in high school.
May 11, 2017 · That’s Sandy Yaguda (stage name: Deanne) of Jay & The Americans describing the grassroots music scene in New York City during the 1950s and early… “Everybody sang in Brooklyn. There were hundreds of guys and they were all good, and we wound up being the big group.”
