I was saddened to hear of Jake's death. All photos appear on this tab and here you can update the sort order of photos on memorials you manage. We will miss him also. Joyce Martin Sanders lives in Nashville, Tennessee with her husband Paul, and she has two children. [1] Contents 1 Life 2 Career 2.1 Statesmen Quartet 2.2 The Imperials 2.3 The Jake Hess Sound 2.4 With Elvis Presley 2.5 Solo career 2.6 Television 3 Family 4 Book 5 Death 6 Awards and honors 7 Discography 7.1 Solo albums Hosts: Emily Trotter and John Fugh, Jr. Judy Martin Hess is one-third of the Southern Gospel trio The Martins. [citation needed]. Thank you. We saw Jake at Publix one Saturday, and my husband asked him to come over and say hello to my mother. 0 Add Rating Anonymously. We will miss Jake's beautiful music and humble, sweet spirit. Directed by Debra Granik. Judy Martin Hess Better Than . "[citation needed] In 1997, when Hess was preparing to get a passport to travel overseas, he discovered that his birth certificate actually read Manchild Hess. Today it designates right-leaning North American Protestantism defined in large part by its opposition to cultural, theological, and political liberalism. Premillenialists espouse a literalist interpretation of scripture that foresees the imminent return of Christ to earth. Judy Martin Hess. "63Emphasis added. This essay is interested primarily with professional southern gospel, which descends from convention singing but has been distinct from it since the 1930s and 1940s. Billboard magazine describes The Martins as "breaking down walls and blurring the lines that separate Southern gospel from inspirational, adult contemporary, and other popular Christian music formats.". Jake W Hess, W Jake Hess, W Jake Hess, W Jake Hess, Jack Hess, W Jake Hess, W J Hess, Jake J Hess, Jake J Hess, Jake Jr Hess. Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. Judy lives in Columbus, GA and is Emily Trotter's Aunt. Arkansas has long been defined by poverty and isolation born of the cashless frontier societies of the state's uplands and the agrarian barter economies that prevailed in the lowlands.55Morris Arnold, "The Significance of the Arkansas Colonial Experience," Arkansas Historical Quarterly 51 (Spring 1992): 7880. Love and prayers to all the Hess family. . The Martins have been nominated for a Grammy Award several times and they're multiple winners of the Gospel Album of the Year award. tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1524_1_63', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1524_1_63').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); In considering The Martins's arrival "From Arkansas With Love," I have demonstrated how a network of religious, geographic, and cultural associations merge in the construction of imagined place. For the past 10 years, they have been his musical family, caring for each other and singing gospel music on stages around the world. Stephen Marini has provided the most sustained interpretive examination of bluegrass families in southern gospel: Sacred Song in America: Religion, Music, and Public Culture (UrbanaChampaign: University of Illinois Press, 2003), 296320. Jake Hess was a noted soloist in his own right. . You will live forever in our hearts. I will surely miss the wonderful voice of Jake Hess! A LITTLE TIME HAS PASSED,JUST WANTED YOU TO KNOW-YOU'RE STILL IN OUR PRAYERS AND HEART.JUST THINK WHAT A TIME JAKE IS HAVING.WOW!!!! Which memorial do you think is a duplicate of Emily Hess (8254100)? tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1524_1_18', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1524_1_18').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); I explore the Arkansas imaginary through the state's most famous southern gospel sibling trio, The Martins, their music, and their reception since approximately 1990.191990 coincides roughly with the emergence of what would become the Bill and Gloria Gaither Homecoming Friends video (later concert) series. No Sympathy For the Devil: Christian Pop Music and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism. See Jones, Faith and Meaning in the Southern Uplands (UrbanaChampaign: University of Illinois Press, 1999), 9. based on information from your browser. Thank you for sharing Jake with us. tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1524_1_19', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1524_1_19').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); The emergence of The Martins as a national touring group relied strategically on their Arkansas roots. This has been a hard four weeks for us but we know it has been so much harder for you all. He always had time to say hello and talk a minute. He will be missed.. You are all in our thoughts and prayers. and there will never be another like him. GMA has drastically shifted its outreach and marketing emphasis toward black gospel artists and groups, going so far in 2011 as to move the Dove Awards from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry to Atlanta, the unofficial capital of black gospel music. No animated GIFs, photos with additional graphics (borders, embellishments. They're not a map to follow, but simply a description of what people commonly feel. In short, whiteness remains strongly associated with southern gospel performance and fan culture.10Ibid., 203, especially note 53. tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1524_1_10', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1524_1_10').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); Front cover of Crowning Day (Dayton, VA: Ruebush-Kieffer, 1900). Jake Hess December 24, 1927 - January 4, 2004 OPELIKA, AL - Beloved gospel singer Jake Hess died early Sunday at East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika. We thoughtwhat in the world is Papa doing? The Martins are a Christian music vocal trio composed of three siblings: Joyce Martin Sanders, Jonathan Martin, and Judy Martin Hess. Anthony Heilbut, "Black Urban Hymnody," on, Stephen Shearon, Harry Eskew, James C. Downey, and Robert Darden, "Gospel Music,". Douglas Harrison, "'From Arkansas With Love': Evangelical Crisis Management and (White) Southern Gospel Music," Southern Spaces, 29 April 2014. We loved him and will miss him so very much. This account already exists, but the email address still needs to be confirmed. Premillenialists espouse a literalist interpretation of scripture that foresees the imminent return of Christ to earth. Through thick and thin . The warmest thoughts of sympathy go out to you today. Media releases promoting The Martins tout this diversity and eclecticism. Best Southern Gospel, Country Gospel, or Bluegrass Album of the Year: This page was last edited on 29 January 2022, at 22:46. He and Mrs. Hess always impressed us in the fact that even though Jake was who he was in his profession, they were always just mama & daddy to their family and showed such love. Family. But it also resonates with less militant but hardly less conservative evangelicalsmostly whitewho respond powerfully to its organizing themes: proud piety, traditionalist notions of family, and unapologetic sentimentality about evangelistic faith and religious community. Your account has been locked for 30 minutes due to too many failed sign in attempts. Southern gospel's negotiation of them has often manifested in overt racism or a way of thinking, talking, and singing that renders whiteness falsely normative. He was a friend of the Wilson family going back to his days singing with the Statesmen.We will hear him sing again in heaven one day. However, in light of the subsequent collapse of most of the southern gospel industry not affiliated with the Homecoming Series, Close Harmony offers an overly optimistic view of southern gospel prospects in the twenty-first century (283287). An old friend J.D. In 1977-1978 Hess reunited with the surviving members of The Statesmen Quartet, Hovie Lister, Doy Ott, and Rosie Rozell to record three projects, including "Songs Elvis Loved". And I think if anything, Id rather be remembered for that for his kind heart.. See Shearon et al., "Gospel Music." Christ's return coincides with the rapture of living Christians and the raising of the righteous dead to heaven. See Harrison. It would make you want to shout. "39Jennifer Lena, Banding Together: How Communities Create Genres in Popular Music (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012), 2. tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1524_1_39', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1524_1_39').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); My approach attends to southern gospel as a musical style,40Lower compositional sophistication, more uneven production quality, and rougher cuts by commercial standardsall defining features of the southern gospel sound of the past twenty yearscan function for many evangelicals and fundamentalists as indices of a more real music and catalysts for a more authentic experience of the religious self. we Miss you, but God needed you. He will be missed by all who knew him and by so many who never met him but loved him still. The Bob Robinson family, Bob, Carolyn, Rick, Leigh Ann and Lynne were mightily blessed in 1968 when we became neighbors of Jake & Joyce Hess on Williamsburg Rd, Brentwood, TN. Goff, Close Harmony, 264282, traces these and other important bluegrass groups in southern history. She is currently married to Jake Hess, Jr., the father of gospel singer, Jake Hess. English You are my friend. Southern gospel has found itself in alliances with black gospel traditions and the black church. It is difficult to lend much credence to this account unless Gloria Gaither's opinion and judgment plays a much more determinative role in the Gaither image and Homecoming productions than is generally allowed or assumed. To plant trees in memory, please visit the. Today southern gospel is found in areas of the United States and lower Canada with concentrated populations of white fundamentalist evangelicals.5For more on the demographic profile of southern gospel see Harrison, Then Sings My Soul, 175180. For discussions of the Traveler trope see ". 1.80 3.81 /5. Music publishers of seven-shape notational gospel music and the convention singing tradition to which these publishers catered were familiar with the term for much of the twentieth century. There is also the sense that The Martins's appeal reaches across the spectrum of religious beliefs and musical tastes that form the conservative end of the white Christian music entertainment market. The video cuts from the Hawaiian excerpt back to the homey interview setting. tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1524_1_49', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1524_1_49').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); Even if The Andy Griffith Show had not made small, rural towns with earthy-sounding names synonymous with culturally unsophisticated, plainspoken provincialism,50Toward the end of his life, Andy Griffith recorded multiple southern gospel albums. The history and role of bluegrass, old-time, and mountain musics, particularly songs with pietistic lyrics that have found a home in southern gospel, is understudied. Edit a memorial you manage or suggest changes to the memorial manager. Marquee ensemble singers who once would have driven a group's fame and success today leave ensemble work and go solo to cut costs and stay viable.35Examples of changes and shifts within professional southern gospel since 1990 include the disbanding of numerous groups as well as the retirements and deaths of many of the mid-twentieth century singers who anchored the genre's golden era. Thank you from the depth of my heart. This experience blessed Jake and those around him for he was able to become a mentor to young singers who respected him for his unyielding spirit and his unique musical gifts. The sponsor of a memorial may add an additional. Goff's remains the most extensive and influential account of southern gospel's market decline. To view a photo in more detail or edit captions for photos you added, click the photo to open the photo viewer. God bless each of you. cemeteries found within kilometers of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. Judy Martin Hess is one-third of the Southern Gospel trio The Martins. GOD BE WITH YOUALL. New York: Knopf, 2012. [4], Jake Hess, Jr. has become a well-known southern gospel songwriter, in addition to being married to Judy Martin of The Martins. Randall Balmer, My Eyes of Have Seen the Glory: A Journey Into the Evangelical Subculture in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006); and Donald Dayton and Robert Johnson, eds., The Variety of Evangelicalism, (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001). Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1524_1_3', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1524_1_3').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); The seven-shape notational system (and culture) of songwriting, singing, and music education that took root in the southern uplands in the late 1800s has heavily influenced the music of southern gospel and its values.4Here, following Loyal Jones, "Southern Uplands" designates the regions and people of trans-Appalachia and extends eastward into the Piedmont and westward to the Ozarks. tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1524_1_8', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1524_1_8').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); So it is tempting to assume that the emergence of "southern" to describe the music since the 1960s matters only as an unsubtle substitute for the more racially antagonistic "white." They live in Columbus, Georgia, and have five children. Please enter your email and password to sign in. Jake Hess Jr. is on Facebook. Jake was invited to the ensemble his freshman year in. Even though I never got to meet Jake Hess, I feel like I know him personally. "6Not that "southern gospel" never made an appearance before the 1970s and 1980s. "51Harrison, Then Sings My Soul, 5. tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1524_1_51', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1524_1_51').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); As The Martins achieved fame and renown, they did so less because of what and how they sang, and more because of the way in which they have presented themselves and their music, and the way the Gaither Homecoming appropriated them as children of traditional gospel values at a moment when the viability of these values was perceived to be in question. But I also think Hes given me a heart to serve Him.. See Shearon et al., "Gospel Music," and Heilbut, The Gospel Sound: Good News in Bad Times (Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard, 2001 [1979]) and Harrison, "Why Southern Gospel Music Matters," Religion and American Culture 18, no. "Fundamentalism" indicates evangelicals for whom militancy in resistance to liberalism is the defining feature of lived religion.22George Marsden, Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991), 15. May 3, 1971) lives in Columbus, Georgia with her husband Jake Hess Jr. and their four children. And that was actually the first time Bill heard us sing. tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1524_1_15', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1524_1_15').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); Arkansas has undergone considerable stereotyping in the US imagination.16Brooks Blevins, Arkansas/Arkansaw: How Bear Hunters, Hillbillies, and Good Ole Boys Defined a State (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2009), 4. tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1524_1_16', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1524_1_16').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); To speak of an "Arkansas imaginary" in this essay is to conceptualize Arkansas as a siteparticularly among poor and working-class white evangelicals and fundamentalistsfor the practice of religious life, or "lived religion. Sumner. Many southern gospel performers and groups incorporate covers of traditional black gospel songs and spirituals into their repertoire. [citation needed] His son, Jake Jr., named his recording company Manchild Records in honor of his father. For a recording of the set piece associated with Gerald Wolfe's time with the Dumplin' Valley Boys, see. Nominated in the "Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music" category, CCM soloist Natalie Grant attended the ceremony, only to leave before the show ended. Man Man Man, I love the Lord, but i just want to ask him one question today, What is he doing in Heaven, that takes need of Vestal Goodman and her old Boyfriend Jake hess, in less than 10 days? It was Mark, Mike, of course the three Martins, Gloria and two or three other people. Finally, I'm grateful to The Martins and so many other southern gospel performers for making music that has held me in thrall and demanded to be taken seriously. Their continuing appeal has involved a narrative about their Arkansas identity as proof of authenticity as individual performers and for the genre of southern gospel. These congregations structured worship, congregational culture, and church outreach to target "those who had never established a relationship with Christ and the Church, and those trying to reconnect" (Lester Ruth, "Lex Agendi, Lex Orandi: Toward an Understanding of Seeker Services as a New Kind of Liturgy," Worship 70, no. He is greatly missed and loved. He studied harmony at the Stamps-Baxter school, sang with his brothers and organized vocal groups around northern Alabama. You can really sing "Your First Day in Heaven" with new understanding now. Expand the Memories and Condolences form. As Stephen Shearon has noted, both white and black gospel have "liked aspects of what the other was doing" ever since blacks and whites began singing sacred music near one another in North America. [4], Judy Martin Hess (b. The Martins. Even though I do not have a better name for it, I remain deeply ambivalent about "northern urban gospel." Instead, CCM performers and fans came together around a common commitment to reclaim the devil's music for God. But this rejection of CCM also bespeaks the stance toward modernity that defines southern gospel culture and fundamentalism. Originally from Hamburg, Arkansas, near the Louisiana border in Ashley County,[3] the vocalists grew up firmly and proudly planted in the Southern gospel tradition, so it is not surprising that, as they have matured, a broad range of influences have entered their musical mix. 1 (2008): 2758. I Love to hear Jake Hess Sing. Auditorium in Greeneville, TN to hear the Statesmen, Blackwood Brothers, etc. Fortunately, new and forthcoming work in the study of southern gospel is beginning to scrutinize Gloria Gaither's role as a Christian entrepreneur, thinker, and writer much more closely. Whether its trying to find your range or trying to find correct placement shes pushed me to do my best and to try my hardest.. So sorry to hear of his passing. We will continue to pray for the family. See Harrison, Here, I am borrowing an image first popularized by Ray Stevens in ", Although CCM borrows heavily from mainstream secular music and performance styles, it does so to cultivate a canon of popular music that signifies Christianity's cultural relevance and the music's evangelistic savvy, while claiming a special status derived from CCM's pious commitments to conservative evangelical values and theological positions. How the heavenly Father must be rejoicing to have Mr Hess at home with him. I Love to the Tell the Story: 25 Timeless Hymns, won a 1996 Grammy for Best Southern Gospel, Country Gospel, or Bluegrass Gospel Album. The Martins "big break" came in 1992 when Michael English and Mark Lowry insisted that Gloria Gaither listen to the group audition in the women's restroom prior to a Gaither Homecoming video recording in Indiana. WE WILL MISS JAKE'S SMILING FACE ON THE HOMECOMING VIDEOS. Just as significantly, while From Kentucky With Love, or From the Smoky Mountains With Love, would probably be received with the same warmth and enthusiasm that greeted The Martins's music, the precise structure of a Kentucky imaginary or a Smoky Mountain imaginary would be located in the meaning-making of those places. We'll help you find the right words to comfort your family member or loved one during this difficult time. Try again later. Audiocassette. Often singing his words. What a great singer, i!ve listened to him over 50 years. Not least of all, The Martins's success has relied on the popularity within southern gospel of what I have referred to as backwoods virtuosiup-from-nothing children of the white US South able to create and perform distinctive arrangements of gospel songs and hymns whose lyrics are, as most southern gospel is, suffused with first-person struggles of ordinary Christians, striving after, struggling for, and faithfully pressing on toward greater assurance of belief and affirmative experience of the divine in their lives.48On backwoods virtuosi, see Harrison, "Grace to Catch a Falling Soul." There was a problem getting your location. After all "Death Ain'it No Big Deal" Heavens gain is surley our loss. Since He, Denver Doy, Jim And Hovie sang out of Atlanta. Modern Social Imaginaries. or don't show this againI am good at figuring things out. Pisgah,[2] near Athens,[1] in Limestone County, Alabama. Continuing with this request will add an alert to the cemetery page and any new volunteers will have the opportunity to fulfill your request. With deepest sympathy to the entire family and special love and prayers to Jake Jr and Judy. "Southern gospel" remains the preferred term in the study of white gospel music of the South. Hess sang lead with the Statesmen Quartet from 1948 until 1963. Gospel Music has lost many great singers lately, Jake was one of the best. . Trinity Broadcasting Network is the D.B.A. of Trinity Christian Center of Santa Ana Inc., a California religious non-profit corporation holding 501(C)(3) status with the Internal Revenue Service. Its fans and participants aspire to transcend or dissolve regional expectations, theological boundaries, and denominational classifications. Broadcasting Since 1973. Researched in the 1990s and published in 2002. Most fundamentalists and many conservative evangelicals believe this return will be presaged by certain historical events, including cataclysmic conflict between Arabs and Jews in the Holy Land, the rise of Anti-Christ, and the emergence of a one-world order. Jennifer Lena has exhorted scholars of music culture to deemphasize sounds and instead examine "social structures and collective actions. He was a blessing to us. The Arkansas imaginary explored here is not a totalizing way of understanding the vernacular music of white fundamentalists. "Southern" gospel has its own difficulties, not least the fact that not all gospel from, of, or appealing to people in the South is a white enterprise. My Mother took me to hear Jake Hess from the time I was born 48 years ago. You're always there. I grew up going to the all night singings in Birmingham, Al. We are very sad, but im sure Jake and Vestal and Howard Goodman and all that have gone on before are singing those heavenly songs only the saints that have gone on know, And I am sure he would want us rejoicing that he is with His lovely wife and Jesus and all the angels. Sorry! In 2013, the Doves moved back to Nashville, not to the Grand Ole Opry House but to the auditorium of a small religious college in the suburbs (Dave Paulson, "Dove Awards Fly Back to Nashville," USAToday.com, October 14, 2013, accessed January 28, 2014, http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2013/10/14/dove-awards-nashville/2984327/). EIN: 95-2844062. Nathaniel Crawford (Eugene: Wifp and Stock, 2011), 84. tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1524_1_22', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1524_1_22').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); Southern gospel is overwhelmingly a product of evangelical fundamentalism. Year should not be greater than current year. I have followed Jake for the last 40 yrs. The Martins's success draws upon an Arkansas imaginary that features a racially unconflicted working-class identity as well as a constellation of musical associations, cultural affinities, and attitudes grounded in piety, rusticity, and close harmony. But as a person, I think people really appreciated who he was at heart. Clearly this story of The Martins's beginning as Homecoming Friends is important to them because they are depicted in the narrative as so natively talented that Bill Gaither purportedly allows them to perform without ever having himself auditioned them. tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1524_1_20', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1524_1_20').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); In its early decades, CCM's creative and cultural home was Nashville and many performers and professionals still work there. The Gospel Music Association (GMA), Christian music's umbrella professional organization that administers the Dove Awards (Christian Music's Grammys), classifies this type of black Christian music as "traditional gospel," as distinct from "contemporary gospel," which encompasses black gospel in the style of mainstream R&B. Oops, we were unable to send the email. But I'll say this: I've never been more honored to sing about Jesus and for Jesus. Ways to honor Jake Hess's life and legacy. The. From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism. The grandson of a four-time Grammy Award winning singer is following his musical dream. How my life has been enriched! Please ensure you have given Find a Grave permission to access your location in your browser settings. See Harrison, Then Sings My Soul, 13. They backed Elvis Presley from 1966 to 1971. Hess and Joyce McWaters were married on October 5, 1952. The videos still air regularly on many local-access religious television channels, but sales today are largely driven through merchandizing at concerts, the Gaither, "Gospel hymns" refer to a repertoire of American sacred songs that "first appeared in religious revivals during the 1850s, but which flourished with the urban revivalism that arose in the English-speaking world in the last third of the nineteenth century and continued into the twentieth century." Joyce: We went to Indianapolis [in 1992] with Michael English and Mark Lowry [of the Gaither Vocal Band and the Gaithers' inner circle]. With deepest symathy. Many fans and most observers interpreted her actions and words as a rebuke of a mass wedding of gay and straight couples performed during the broadcast. Discovered by Michael English and Mark Lowry with Bill Gaither at the 1987 National Quartet Convention mid day booth cleanup. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate, or jump to a slide with the slide dots. For more on the demographic profile of southern gospel see Harrison. You just know J. D.,Glenn,James,Rex and all those who preceded him are rejoicing at his arrival. Sincerely, Barbara Cowart Bush. Through this custom cross jewelry we are able to support a cause very close to our hearts. "Home" functions primarily in southern gospel as a meaning-making tool for experience in this life, not the next. The piano was delivered to that church on Sunday after the singing on Saturday. Except [we didn't] know where to go, all the rooms were locked, too much going on in the auditorium, so Mark suggests we go into the bathroom. They will, sometimes, disappoint your expectations. During the last three decades of the twentieth century, these conservative evangelicals and fundamentalists ceased perceiving themselves in the Nixonian paradigm as a silent majority existing voicelessly and invisibly within mainstream US politics and culture. 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