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Jake Hess (December 24, 1927 – January 4, 2004) was an American Grammy Award-winning southern gospel singer. [1] Life. The son of "a sharecropper who was a shape ...
The Happy Sounds of Jake Hess & the Imperials (1965) He Was a Preachin' Man (1965) Slightly Regal (1965) Live From Charlotte, NC-1964 (2008) (CD release only) 1966 Hess; McSpadden; Morales; Slaughter; Jim Murray – tenor; The Imperials Sing Their Favorite Hymns (1966) The Imperials Sing Inspirational Classics (1966) 1966–1967 Hess; McSpadden ...
1965: A Man Named Smith – Fred Smith and Jake Hess & The Imperials (Impact Records) 1965: Bill Sings the Old Favorites – Bill Gober and Jake Hess & The Imperials (HeartWarming Records) 1966: The Gloryland Way – Hank Locklin (RCA Victor) 1966: Sings Great Sacred Songs – Connie Smith and Jake Hess & The Imperials (RCA Viktor)
Haase continued a solo career he had begun and, with Gaither's help, formed The Old Friends Quartet with Younce, Jake Hess, Wesley Pritchard, and Gold City alumnus Garry Jones on piano. They recorded two albums and a concert video for the Gaither Homecoming series, but Younce and Hess's poor health brought an end to the Old Friends two years ...
The group featured J.D. Sumner as bass, Rosie Rozell and then Steve Warren as tenor, James Blackwood and Jake Hess alternating between lead and baritone, and Lister on piano. [2] Their self-titled debut album, The Masters V , won the 1981 Grammy Award for best traditional gospel performance . [ 3 ]
After the Stamps Quartet disbanded in 1980, Sumner with Hovie Lister, Jake Hess, Rosie Rozell, and James Blackwood formed the Masters V as a special consolidation of members of the Blackwood Brothers Quartet and Statesmen Quartet.
The Statesmen Quartet (also known as Hovie Lister and The Statesmen Quartet) were an American southern gospel quartet founded in 1948 by Baptist Minister Hovie Lister.Along with the Blackwood Brothers, the Statesmen Quartet were considered the most successful and influential gospel quartet of the 1950s and 1960s and had a wide influence on artists during that time from the gospel, country, pop ...
"Everything Is Beautiful" was responsible for two wins at the Grammy Awards of 1971: Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for Ray Stevens and Grammy Award for Best Inspirational Performance for Jake Hess. Stevens's recording was the number 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in summer 1970.