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Every Billboard Hot 100 Single 1970: #494: “So Close” Jake Holmes. October 3, 1970.
- Single: “So Close” Jake Holmes
- Record Company- Polydor
- Genre: Pop
- Written by Jake Holmes
- Time: 3:26
- B-side:” Django and Friend”
- Album-So Close, So Very Far To Go
- Grade:C-
- Peaked at #49 11 weeks in Billboard Hot 100.
“So Close” was Jake Holmes only Hot 100 single. Holmes was a folk rock singer-songwriter born in 1939.
Jake was the writer of the original “Dazed & Confused” which Led Zeppelin. he took his sweet time with the litigation but eventually reached a settlement with the band (he copyrighted the song in 1967). Later wrote the music for many TV commercials, becoming known as “Jingle Jake.” 🙂