| "Come A Little Bit Closer" | ||||
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| Single by Jay and the Americans | ||||
| B-side | Goodbye Boys, Goodbye | |||
| Released | 1964 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 2:49 | |||
| Label | United Artists Records | |||
| Writer(s) | Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart, Wes Farrell | |||
| Producer | Artie Ripp | |||
| Jay and the Americans singles chronology | ||||
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| Single by Johnny Duncan and Janie Fricke | ||||||||||||||||||||
| from the album Come a Little Bit Closer | ||||||||||||||||||||
| B-side | Loneliness (Can Break a Man's Heart) (Duncan only) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Released | October 1977 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Format | 7" | |||||||||||||||||||
| Recorded | August 1977 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Genre | Country | |||||||||||||||||||
| Label | Columbia 10634 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart, Wes Farrell | |||||||||||||||||||
| Producer | Billy Sherrill and Larry Gatlin | |||||||||||||||||||
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"Come a Little Bit Closer" is a popular song by the 1960s rock and roll band Jay and the Americans that reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1964, making it the band's highest ranking single ever (it remains their most popular song, according to the Last.fm song rankings).[1][2] It also peaked at #4 on the Cashbox chart and at #1 on RPM's singles chart. Due to the song's popularity, the band was able to join the Beatles on their first American tour, along with the Righteous Brothers.[3]
It was written by songwriters Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, as well as Wes Ferrell, and became Boyce and Hart's first top-10 hit.[4]
The song was featured on the 2006 Gilmore Girls episode "The Great Stink" and was covered by The Iguanas for the 1996 film, The Big Squeeze, starring Lara Flynn Boyle and Danny Nucci.
The following artists have covered the song: