Jay Black

The band had numerous hits including "Come a Little Bit Closer", "Cara Mia", and "This Magic Moment".

[2] Black was born in Astoria, Queens and grew up in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Borough Park.

The band had numerous hits, including "Come a Little Bit Closer", "Cara Mia", and "This Magic Moment".

[4] In 2006, Black completed bankruptcy proceedings in Manhattan, after he accrued a $500,000 debt in back taxes to the IRS as a result of his gambling addiction.

[5] In a 2014 interview, Black suggested that he might have been suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, but that was not officially diagnosed.

Black (first from right) with Jay and the Americans in 1965