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Sands of Time (Jay and the Americans album)

Album by Jay and the Americans

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 27, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Sands of Time is the seventh studio album by Jay and the Americans released on March 15, 1969. The album went to #51 on the Billboard 200 chart, reached #30 on the Cashbox chart, and #47 in Canada.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Sands of Time (Jay and the Americans album)” is album by Jay and the Americans. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Sands, Time and Americans, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1969—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Sands, Time and Americans is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “album by Jay and the Americans” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 27, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1969.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “Sands of Time (Jay and the Americans album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.