Origin: Las Vegas, NV, USA
J.K. & Co. was actually Las Vegas resident Jay Kaye (guitar, keyboards, vocals), who in early 1968 at age 15 recorded the LP Suddenly One Summer while accompanying his mother on a trip to Vancouver, BC, Canada. As the story goes, Kaye's mother (Mary Kaye) was also a notable musician and had taken Jay along with her to Canada where she was making some celebrity appearances. While in Vancouver, they visited a studio that wanted to make a record with Mary, but when she turned them down, Jay offered up his own material instead to the studio's producer Robin Spurgin. Spurgin had previously worked w…