WHICH ONE OF JIM REEVES COLLECTIONS IS YOUR FAVOURITE TRACK OR ALBUM?

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James Travis Reeves (August 20, 1923 – July 31, 1964) was an American country and popular music singer and songwriter. With records charting from the 1950s to the 1980s, he became well known as a practitioner of the Nashville Sound. Known as "Gentleman Jim", his songs continued to chart for years after his death in a plane crash. He is a member of both the Country Music and Texas Country Music Halls of Fame.

Early Life and Education;
Reeves was born at home in Galloway, Texas, a small rural community near Carthage. He was the youngest of eight children born to Thomas Middleton Reeves (1882-1924) and Mary Beulah Adams Reeves (1884-1980). He was known as Travis during his childhood years.

Winning an athletic scholarship to the University of Texas, he enrolled to study speech and drama but quit after only six weeks to work in the shipyards in Houston. Soon he resumed baseball, playing in the semi-professional leagues before contracting with the St. Louis Cardinals "farm" team during 1944 as a right-handed pitcher. He played for the minor leagues for three years before severing his sciatic nerve while pitching, which ended his athletic career.

Early Career:
Reeves' initial efforts to pursue a baseball career were sporadic, possibly due to his uncertainty as to whether he would be drafted into the military as World War II enveloped the United States. On March 9, 1943, he reported to the Army Induction Center in Tyler, Texas for his preliminary physical examination. However, he failed the exam (probably due to a heart irregularity), and on 4 August 1943 an official letter declared his 4-F draft status.

Reeves began to work as a radio announcer and sang live between songs. During the late 1940s, he was contracted with a couple of small Texas-based recording companies, but without success. Reeves at this point was influenced by early country and western swing artists including Jimmie Rodgers and Moon Mullican, as well as popular singers Bing Crosby, Eddy Arnold and Frank Sinatra.

In the late 1940s, Reeves joined Moon Mullican's band, and as a solo artist, Reeves recorded Mullican-style songs including "Each Beat of my Heart" and "My Heart's Like a Welcome Mat" in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Reeves was elected posthumously to the Country Music Hall of Fame during 1967, which honored him by saying, "The velvet style of 'Gentleman Jim Reeves' was an international influence. His rich voice brought millions of new fans to country music from every corner of the world. Although the crash of his private airplane took his life, posterity will keep his name alive because they will remember him as one of the most important performers in Country music."

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In 1998 Reeves was inducted into the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame in Carthage, Texas, where the Jim Reeves Memorial is located. The inscription on the memorial reads, "If I, a lowly singer, dry one tear, or soothe one humble human heart in pain, then my homely verse to God is dear, and not one stanza has been sung in vain."

Each year, the Academy of Country Music awards the Jim Reeves International Award to an artist who has made an "outstanding contributions to the acceptance of country music throughout the world.done the most to promote the genre worldwide".

Posthumous Releases;
Reeves' records continued to sell well, both earlier and new albums issued after his death. According to the Billboard magazine, "Reeves' career continued to thrive with hit records on the Billboard charts throughout the next two decades". The last Reeves song on the chart was "The Image Of Me", in 1984.

His widow, Mary, was instrumental in the ongoing success of the songs. She combined unreleased tracks with previous releases (placing updated instrumentals alongside Reeves' original vocals) to produce a regular series of "new" albums after her husband's death. She also operated the Jim Reeves Museum in Nashville from the mid-1970s until 1996. On the 15th anniversary of death, Mary told a country music magazine interviewer, "Jim Reeves my husband is gone; Jim Reeves the artist lives on."

During 1966, Reeves' record "Distant Drums" hit number one on the UK Singles Chart and remained there for five weeks, beating competition from the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby" (a double-sided "A" release), and the Small Faces' song, "All Or Nothing". The song stayed in the UK chart for 25 weeks, and took number one on the US country music chart. Originally, "Distant Drums" had been recorded merely as a "demo" for its composer, Cindy Walker, believing it was for her personal use and had been deemed "unsuitable" for general release by Chet Atkins and RCA Victor.

During 1966, however, RCA determined a market for the song existed because of the war in Vietnam. It was named Song of the Year in the UK during 1966 by the BBC, and Reeves became the first American artist to receive the accolade. That same year, singer Del Reeves (no relation) recorded an album paying tribute to him.

In 1980, Reeves was credited with two more top-10 posthumous duet hits, "Have You Ever Been Lonely?" and "I Fall to Pieces", which combined separate vocal tracks of both he and the late country star Patsy Cline, who had also passed away in an airplane crash mid-career. Although the two had never recorded together, producers Chet Atkins and Owen Bradley lifted their isolated vocal performances off original three-track stereo master session tapes, resynchronized them, and combined them with digitally re-recorded backing tracks. The duets first appeared on the Remembering Patsy Cline & Jim Reeves LP.

Reeves' compilation albums containing well-known standards continue to sell well. The Definitive Collection scored number 21 in the UK album charts during July 2003, and Memories are Made of This reached number 35 during July 2004.

Since 2003, US-based VoiceMasters has issued more than 80 previously unreleased Reeves recordings, including new songs, as well as newly overdubbed material. Among them was "I'm a Hit Again", the last song he recorded in his basement studio just a few days before his death. VoiceMasters overdubbed this track in the same studio in Reeves' former home (then owned[when?] by a Nashville record producer[citation needed]). The song was released in 2008 by H&H Music (UK) and became number one in a survey of radio stations in the UK.
Reeves' fans repeatedly urged RCA or Bear Family to re-release some of the songs overdubbed during the years after his death which have never appeared on CD.

A compilation CD, The Very Best of Jim Reeves, scored number eight on initial release in the UK Albums Chart during May 2009, to later score its maximum of number seven during late June, his first top-10 album in the UK since 1992. In 1994, the German Bear Family Records label released a 16-CD compilation titled Welcome to my World, including more than 75 unissued titles, and many demo recordings. In 2014, a set of eight CDs was released by Intermusic S.A., titled The Great Jim Reeves, containing 170 tracks, remastered and remixed.[12]

Tributes:
Tributes to Reeves were composed in the British Isles after his death. The song "A Tribute to Jim Reeves" was written by Eddie Masterson, and recorded by Larry Cunningham and the Mighty Avons; during January 1965, it scored on the UK charts and top 10 in Ireland. It scored the UK charts on December 10, 1964, and was there for 11 weeks and sold 250,000 copies.

The Dixielanders Show Band also recorded "Tribute to Jim Reeves" written by Steve Lynch and recorded during September 1964; it scored on the Northern Ireland charts during September 1964. The Masterson song was translated later into Dutch and recorded.

In the UK, "We'll Remember You" was written by Geoff Goddard, but not released until 2008 on the Now & Then: From Joe Meek to New Zealand double album by Houston Wells. Jerry Jerry and the Sons of Rhythm Orchestra, a Canadian alternative rock band whose musical style blends elements of surf music, gospel music, rockabilly, garage, and punk, released the song entitled "Jimmy Reeves" on their 1992 album Don't Mind If I Do.

Reeves remains a popular artist in Ireland, and many Irish singers have recorded tribute albums. A play by author Dermot Devitt, Put Your Sweet Lips, was based on Reeves' appearance in Ireland at the Pavesi Ballroom in Donegal town on June 7, 1963, and reminiscences of people who attended.

Blind R&B and blues music artist Robert Bradley (of the band Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise) paid tribute to Reeves in the album description of his release, Out of the Wilderness. He said, "This record brings me back to the time when I started out wanting to be a singer-songwriter, where the music did not need the New York Philharmonic to make it real...I wanted to do a record and just be Robert and sing straight like Jim Reeves on 'Put Your Sweet Lips a Little Closer to the Phone'."

-British comedian Vic Reeves adopted his stage name from Reeves and Vic Damone, two of his favorite singers.

-In the United States, Del Reeves (no relation) recorded and released a 1966 album entitled Del Reeves Sings Jim Reeves.

-Reeves' nephew, singer-songwriter John Rex Reeves (March 4, 1936 – November 15, 2022),  appeared occasionally on RFD-TV's Midwest Country, singing Reeves' songs, as well as other popular country songs.

John Rex, a recording artist in his own right, had two songs on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in 1981 ("What Would You Do" #93; and "You're the Reason" #90). John Rex died after a long illness in Kingwood, Texas, at age 86. In 2023, "He'll Have To Go", an independent short film named after Reeves' song of the same name was released and won the Finalist Award at the SWIFF International Film Festival for "Best Short Film".

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"If I, a lowly singer, dry one tear, or soothe one humble human heart in pain, then my homely verse to God is dear, and not one stanza has been sung in vain."- Jim Reeves

What a legendary gospel and country side musical icon the world lost. My favourite tracks of him;

-1). "WE THANK THEE."

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-2). "THE NIGHT WATCH."

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Have you listened to Reeves Christmas collections? You must be missing the Christmas vibes if it is not part of your festivity tunes. I simply fell in love with the collection the first time I heard it on radio Nigeria-1 during the 1988 Christmas era. Rest on man!

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This World Is Not My Home by Jim Reeves

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Growing up as an AGC Member,Jim reeves were one of the songs we listened to. Listening to it was as if the world will end the following week

I remember one of his songs "Across the bridge,where no more sorrow,the sun will shine,Across the river,and we never be unhappy again"

But here we are 2024,I am no longer even a Believer.

He was the number one go to guy for my deeper life peeps in those days.....

Back then, if u hear Jim Reeves, its most definitely from a deeper life member.....

But in all honesty, deeper life bible church don step up....

Jim Reeves the best goalkeeper England has ever produced

Only TINUBU will live forever.
Rip JiM

Arguably the best country artist of all time. His music was extremely popular in Asia and Africa in the decades after his death. Most of his comtemporary Christian albums defined our Sunday mornings in the eighties. Tunes like "This world is not my own" "Take My Hands Precious Lord" "We Thank Thee and Where we'll never grow old" were inspirational christian hits that brouhgt a peaceful feeling of a good God..

His other contemporary songs like "Stand by your windows at night" "Bimbo" and "But you Love me Daddy" released in the 50's still resonates in 2024 when you want to be loss in nostalgia

I still remember Jim Reeves of blessed memory. Indomie children no go know this man. Na trashy GenZ music dem dey listen these days.

Good old days

No idea who he is.


If it's not Asake, seyi vibes, Joeboy, Machala, Obo. You no go see me there.

BABANGBALI:
Jim Reeves the best goalkeeper England has ever produced

Na wah!

He was so good.

My papa wan use the cassette kill us. Then on radio/TV once you hear “This World is not my home” na obituary announcement be that.

He's part of those used to spread one of the religions used to perpetually hold the black man in mental slavery

Music n soul generation

Skydivine:


Na wah!

wetin?

"He was the youngest of eight children born to Thomas Middleton Reeves (1882-1924) and Mary Beulah Adams Reeves (1884-1980)"....His mother really outlived his father, dying 56 years later.

Jim reeves! How time flies!

Indomie kids would be wondering who's was this middle-aged man with such a smooth voice?

Those days music made sense, not the noise we are forced to listen to these days.

I heard from a nurse that whenever a patient start listening or singing that his song "Across the bridge" just know that no hope again for the patient 😁🤣

our world had really changed

DeltaBachelor:
Try again later bro. Our resident Nairaland Front Page Moderator (nlfpmod) beat you to it

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WE THANK THEE

LandMann:
He's part of those used to spread one of the religions used to perpetually hold the black man in mental slavery

you still reasons like this to this age ,nawa