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Benny Hester
Benny Ray Hester (born May 3, 1948) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and recording artist. He is best known for his songs "When God Ran" and "Nobody Knows Me Like You", and for producing the teen sketch comedy and dance television series Roundhouse. Hester received a television Cable Ace Award for the song "I Can Dream" and a collection of nominations for writing and producing an original song for each weekly episode of Roundhouse during its four-year run.
Hester's song "When God Ran" is one of the longest-running number one songs in Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) history; it was number one for 13 weeks, and the third most successful song in the history of Word Records.
The title track from Hester's third album, "Nobody Knows Me Like You", reached number one on Christian Music Charts and became the first CCM song to break the Billboard Top 50 Adult Contemporary Chart, debuting at number 44 on November 7, 1981.
Hester's first CCM singles, "Jesus Came Into My Life" and "Be A Receiver", were breakthrough recordings for radio, blurring the lines between pop, rock and inspirational music, and becoming the first contemporary pop rock songs to be universally accepted and widely played across all Christian Radio formats.[citation needed] His 1978 debut album Benny Hester, re-released in 1982 as Be A Receiver, influenced the burgeoning CCM scene as the musical landscape shifted with the end of the Jesus Music era and the birth of the industry known as "Contemporary Christian Music".
Benny Hester was born in Waco, Texas, the son of Benjamin F. Hester and Evelyn Hester; he has one sister and one brother. He began studying classical music at age four and continued his studies through high school. While attending Richfield High School, Hester was a founding members of the Texas pop rock band The Morticians. He sang with The Texas Boys Choir, became the youngest member of the Texas swing band Sam Weaver and The Texas Playboys, and appeared on the band's weekly television show playing alongside guests like Johnny Gimble and Ernest Tubb.
Hester was hired to play in the stage band and orchestra for the musical Texas, and stayed with the show for two years. At the same time, with partner Steve Hilton, he founded the duo Hester & Hilton. While playing El Paso, Hester was asked to write two songs for a recording session by the group The Sojourners. In 1970, the songs, "Life Developing Slide" and "Our Way To Go", were produced by Norman Petty and recorded at his recording studio in Clovis, New Mexico.
in 1969, Hester moved to Las Vegas where, on a walk-through of Bill Porter's United Recording Studio, he met head recording engineer Brent Maher. Maher invited Hester to play a song and then asked for another. They became immediate friends and Maher let him sit in on the recording sessions of Ike and Tina Turner’s “Proud Mary" and The 5th Dimension's Age of Aquarius.
Hester taught music at a private music school, recorded Hester & Hilton demos with Maher at United Recording and, with Maher, formed a jingle agency, MusAd. They created, for example, the song for Hickory Farms Of Ohio, and the slogan for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Maher produced Hester's first two albums, Benny..., and his first CCM album for Billy Ray Hearn's Sparrow Records, Benny Hester. Hester had become a Christian while attending an evangelical rally; his spiritual awakening resulted in the song "We All Know He's Coming", recorded with Elvis Presley’s TCB Band. It was the TCB band which played on Benny..., however the finished masters and packaged albums were lost in the fire that destroyed United Recording. Hester's first album was never released but a remastered version, made from Hester's promotional copy of the original, was released on February 19, 2016. A track from the album, "No the End is Not Near" was featured in the fifth season of the HBO show Girls.
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Benny Hester
Benny Ray Hester (born May 3, 1948) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and recording artist. He is best known for his songs "When God Ran" and "Nobody Knows Me Like You", and for producing the teen sketch comedy and dance television series Roundhouse. Hester received a television Cable Ace Award for the song "I Can Dream" and a collection of nominations for writing and producing an original song for each weekly episode of Roundhouse during its four-year run.
Hester's song "When God Ran" is one of the longest-running number one songs in Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) history; it was number one for 13 weeks, and the third most successful song in the history of Word Records.
The title track from Hester's third album, "Nobody Knows Me Like You", reached number one on Christian Music Charts and became the first CCM song to break the Billboard Top 50 Adult Contemporary Chart, debuting at number 44 on November 7, 1981.
Hester's first CCM singles, "Jesus Came Into My Life" and "Be A Receiver", were breakthrough recordings for radio, blurring the lines between pop, rock and inspirational music, and becoming the first contemporary pop rock songs to be universally accepted and widely played across all Christian Radio formats.[citation needed] His 1978 debut album Benny Hester, re-released in 1982 as Be A Receiver, influenced the burgeoning CCM scene as the musical landscape shifted with the end of the Jesus Music era and the birth of the industry known as "Contemporary Christian Music".
Benny Hester was born in Waco, Texas, the son of Benjamin F. Hester and Evelyn Hester; he has one sister and one brother. He began studying classical music at age four and continued his studies through high school. While attending Richfield High School, Hester was a founding members of the Texas pop rock band The Morticians. He sang with The Texas Boys Choir, became the youngest member of the Texas swing band Sam Weaver and The Texas Playboys, and appeared on the band's weekly television show playing alongside guests like Johnny Gimble and Ernest Tubb.
Hester was hired to play in the stage band and orchestra for the musical Texas, and stayed with the show for two years. At the same time, with partner Steve Hilton, he founded the duo Hester & Hilton. While playing El Paso, Hester was asked to write two songs for a recording session by the group The Sojourners. In 1970, the songs, "Life Developing Slide" and "Our Way To Go", were produced by Norman Petty and recorded at his recording studio in Clovis, New Mexico.
in 1969, Hester moved to Las Vegas where, on a walk-through of Bill Porter's United Recording Studio, he met head recording engineer Brent Maher. Maher invited Hester to play a song and then asked for another. They became immediate friends and Maher let him sit in on the recording sessions of Ike and Tina Turner’s “Proud Mary" and The 5th Dimension's Age of Aquarius.
Hester taught music at a private music school, recorded Hester & Hilton demos with Maher at United Recording and, with Maher, formed a jingle agency, MusAd. They created, for example, the song for Hickory Farms Of Ohio, and the slogan for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Maher produced Hester's first two albums, Benny..., and his first CCM album for Billy Ray Hearn's Sparrow Records, Benny Hester. Hester had become a Christian while attending an evangelical rally; his spiritual awakening resulted in the song "We All Know He's Coming", recorded with Elvis Presley’s TCB Band. It was the TCB band which played on Benny..., however the finished masters and packaged albums were lost in the fire that destroyed United Recording. Hester's first album was never released but a remastered version, made from Hester's promotional copy of the original, was released on February 19, 2016. A track from the album, "No the End is Not Near" was featured in the fifth season of the HBO show Girls.
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