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Jake Hess
Jake Hess (second from right) with the Imperials in the 1966 film Sing A Song For Heaven's Sake.
Background information
Birth name
Manchild Hess
Born
(1927-12-24)December 24, 1927 Limestone County, Alabama, U.S.
Died
January 4, 2004(2004-01-04) (aged 76) Opelika, Alabama
Genres
Southern gospel
Years active
1945–2003
Musical artist
Jake Hess (December 24, 1927 – January 4, 2004) was an American Grammy Award-winning southern gospel singer.[1]
^McNeil, W.K., Ed. (2010). Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-94179-2. Pp. 201-202.
JakeHess (December 24, 1927 – January 4, 2004) was an American Grammy Award-winning southern gospel singer. The son of "a sharecropper who was a shape-note...
genesis when long-time Statesmen Quartet member JakeHess retired from that group on December 7, 1963. Hess wanted to start a new group recognized as "king"...
after. In 1963, Hess left The Statesmen to form his own quartet, JakeHess and The Imperials. Lister recruited Jack Toney to replace Hess. Before long,...
JakeHess & The Imperials (RCA Viktor) 1967: Most Richly Blessed – Jimmy Dean and JakeHess & The Imperials (RCA Viktor) 1967: Doug Oldham with Jake Hess...
inelegant bellowing to push out a sound" that JakeHess of the Statesmen Quartet had in his command. Hess himself thought that while others might have...
bass, Rosie Rozell and then Steve Warren as tenor, James Blackwood and JakeHess alternating between lead and baritone, and Lister on piano. Their self-titled...
McSpadden (who had filled in for JakeHess in the Statesmen Quartet) as baritone with the understanding from JakeHess that when he was ready to start...
which has cerebral palsy. Judy Martin Hess (b. May 3, 1971) lives in Columbus, Georgia with her husband JakeHess Jr. and their four children. 1994: The...
Jimmie Rodgers, Jimmie Davis, and Bob Wills. The Southern gospel singer JakeHess, one of his favorite performers, was a significant influence on his ballad-singing...
of the great voices of southern gospel music: The Speers, The Gatlins, JakeHess, The Cathedrals, Howard & Vestal Goodman, Buck Rambo, Eva Mae Lefevre...
for Ray Stevens and Grammy Award for Best Inspirational Performance for JakeHess. Stevens' recording was the Number 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 for...
Retrieved December 2, 2017. Chang, Sophia; Offenhartz, Jake (February 3, 2021). "Village Cigars And The Hess Spite Triangle Are For Sale". Gothamist. Retrieved...
Instrumentalist Dwayne Friend Backliner Notes Mrs. JakeHess; Ain't That Beautiful Singin'; JakeHess Cover Photo or Cover Art Bill Grine; This Is My Valley;...
Could Cry Mercury 1981 Until You Benson Here in My Heart Heart 1996 Sings Christmas Songs for the Whole World Dove Terry & Jake (with JakeHess) Chordant...
the Edwin Hawkins Singers) Tramaine Hawkins Walter Hawkins Cory Henry JakeHess Darwin Hobbs Danny Hollis Dave Hollister The Hoppers Israel Houghton Cissy...
Surely Goodness and Mercy The Browns for The Old Country Church 1969 JakeHess Beautiful Isle of Somewhere Ralph Carmichael for 102 Strings, Vol. 2 Anita...
addition to his solo concerts, he performed from 2001 through 2003 with JakeHess, Wesley Pritchard, and George Younce in the Old Friends Quartet. After...
His country gospel song "Ain't That Beautiful Singing", recorded by JakeHess, was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Sacred Performance in 1969. He also...
Performance Dottie Rambo for "The Soul of Me" Best Sacred Performance JakeHess for "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" Best Instrumental Jazz Performance -...
included The Blackwood Brothers, J.D. Sumner and the Stamps Quartet, JakeHess and the Imperials, the Speer Family, the Florida Boys, the Couriers Quartet...
and drug offenses. In his seventh decade, under the discipleship of JakeHess, who he described as the one who "stood by him when most gospel singers...
With The Saints: "Singing With The Saints" "I Know Where I Am Now" (with JakeHess) 1998: Rivers Of Joy: "Loving God, Loving Each Other" 1998: Down By Tabernacle:...
son-in-law, former Cathedral tenor Ernie Haase and Southern Gospel legend JakeHess and baritone Wesley Pritchard and pianist Garry Jones. Younce also provided...
the GMA's Gospel Music Hall of Fame (with all five original members: JakeHess, Armond Morales, Gary McSpadden, Sherrill Neilsen & Henry Slaughter, as...