Jake Holmes
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Jake Holmes (born December 18, 1939 in San Francisco, California) is an American folk-rock singer/songwriter of the late 1960s. Holmes is the author of the song "Dazed and Confused" which was later adopted and popularized by Led Zeppelin. The song appeared on Holmes' debut, "The Above Ground Sound" of Jake Holmes.
It is still not widely recognized that Holmes was the author of the classic song. Page, while on tour with the Yardbirds in 1967, saw Holmes perform the song in Greenwich Village [1]. Within months, he had adapted the song for that group, and later, for Led Zeppelin. For reasons that are not entirely clear, Page claimed sole songwriting credit for the song when it appeared on Led Zeppelin's debut album.
Holmes' first musical foray was with his wife Katherine in the folk rock parody duo, Allen & Grier. Holmes later collaborated with Bob Gaudio on The Four Seasons' Genuine Imitation Life Gazette album, after which the pair went on to compose Frank Sinatra's Watertown album.
In the 1970s, Holmes moved into writing advertising jingles. He is the composer of the popular "Be All You Can Be" slogan and jingle for the US Army. He also wrote "Be A Pepper" (1977) for Dr Pepper.
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