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American singer-songwriter and jingle writer

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Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1939-12-28

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Jake Holmes Jake Grier Holmes, Jr. (born December 28, 1939 in San Francisco, California) is an American folk-pop singer/songwriter and jingle writer who began a recording career in the 1960s. Holmes, who has a particular talent for writing clever, perceptive lyrics, is perhaps best known as the original author of the song "Dazed and Confused", later popularized by Led Zeppelin, and for composing the US Army recruitment jingle "Be All That You Can Be" in the late 1970s. <a href="https://www.last

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date of birth
1939-12-28
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1963-00-00
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