jay and the americans wrote the song come a little bit closer.
jay and the americans wrote the song come a little bit closer.
who wrote the song come a little bit closer?
jay and the americans
boyce met hart in 1959, and the following year played guitar on hart's single "girl in the window", which flopped, but marked the first time he used the name bobby hart, since his manager shortened it to fit the label. their partnership made a breakthrough with a song recorded by chubby checker, "lazy elsie molly", in 1964. they went on to write hits for jay & the americans ("come a little bit closer"), paul revere and the raiders ("(i'm not your) steppin' stone"), and the leaves ("words"). the latter two songs provided the monkees with hit b-sides in 1967. the duo also wrote the theme song of the daytime soap "days of our lives". at one point in this period, hart also co-wrote "hurt so bad" for little anthony & the imperials with teddy randazzo and his regular songwriting partner, bobby weinstein. boyce co-wrote the song hello pretty girl, which was a minor hit for singer ronnie dove, with wes farrell.
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"come a little bit closer" is a song by the 1960s rock and roll band jay and the americans. it reached number 3 on the "billboard" hot 100 in 1964, making it the band's highest charting single. it remains their most popular song, according to last.fm song rankings. it also peaked at number 4 on the cashbox chart and at number 1 on "rpm's" singles chart. the single served as a comeback for the group, who had not had a hit in some time.
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