Jake Holmes
Sign in to saveAmerican singer-songwriter and jingle writer
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- 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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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jake
- Family name
- Holmes
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- San Francisco
- Occupation
- guitarist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- music
- Genre
- folk music
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Columbia Records
- Image
- Jake Holmes circa 1960s (cropped).JPG
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- date of birth
- 1939-12-28
- start of work period
- 1963-00-00
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- Jake Holmes
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