Artist: Jim Reeves
Genre(s):
Country
Other
Easy Listening
Discography:
Anthology (CD2)
Year: 2003
Tracks: 20
Anthology (CD1)
Year: 2003
Tracks: 20
(Double Platinum) CD2
Year: 2002
Tracks: 21
(Double Platinum) CD1
Year: 2002
Tracks: 20
The Essential
Year: 2001
Tracks: 20
Gentleman Jim - 1955-1959 (cd4)
Year: 1989
Tracks: 24
Gentleman Jim - 1955-1959 (cd3)
Year: 1989
Tracks: 25
Twelve songs of Christmas
Year:
Tracks: 12
Hurricane
Year:
Tracks: 22
Gentleman Jim - 1955-1959 (cd1)
Year:
Tracks: 32
Definitive Collection CD2
Year:
Tracks: 26
Definitive Collection CD1
Year:
Tracks: 21
Gentleman Jim Reeves was perchance the biggest male star to emerge from the Nashville wakeless. His mellow baritone voice and softened velvet orchestration combined to make a sound that echoed around his mankind and has lasted to this day. Detractors will call the reasoned country-pop (or plain pop), merely none toilet argue against the large interview that loves this music. Reeves was capable of singing heavy state ("Mexican Joe" went to number one in 1953), merely he made his greatest impact as a country-pop balladeer. From 1955 through and through 1969, Reeves was consistently in the country and pop charts -- an awe-inspiring fact in light of his wrong death in an plane fortuity in 1964. Not only was he a presence in the American charts, just he became country music's frontmost international ambassador and, if anything, was even more than popular in Europe and Britain than in his native America. After his decease, his fan base didn't belittle at all, and several of his posthumous hits in reality outsold his earlier singles; no less than sextet number one singles arrived in the trey days following his burial. In fact, during the '70s and '80s, he continued to accept hits with both unreleased real and electronic duets like "Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me" with Deborah Allen and "Feature You Ever Been Lonely?" with his smooth-singing distaff opposite number of the plush Nashville wakeless, Patsy Cline, wHO likewise perished in an airplane crash, in 1963. But Reeves' legacy remains with lavish country-pop singles like "Four Walls" (1957) and "He'll Have to Go" (1959), which defined both his style and an entire era of nation medicine.
Reeves was born and raised in Galloway, TX, where he was one of nina from Carolina children. Tragically, his male parent died when Jim was only tenner months old, forcing his mother to farm and rear her family. At the age of quint, he was granted an sure-enough guitar, and shortly later, he heard a Jimmie Rodgers record through his elder brother. From that moment on, Reeves was captivated by country medicine and Rodgers in fussy. By the time he was 12 eld old, he had already appeared on a radio show in Shreveport, LA. Though he was transfixed with music, Reeves also was a talented jock and during his teens he distinct he was sledding to pursue a life history as a baseball player. Winning an athletic scholarship to the University of Texas, Reeves enrolled at the schooltime to survey speech and dramatic event, only he dropped out later six weeks to work at the shipyards in Houston. Soon, he had returned to baseball game, playing in the semipro leagues in front sign language with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1944. He stayed with the squad for trey long time in front seriously injuring his ankle joint and thereby ruining his chances of a extended athletic career.
For the next few age, Reeves went through and through a number of blue-collar jobs patch trying to decide on a professing. During this time he began singing as an amateur, coming into court both as a solo creative person and as the frontman for Moon Mullican's band. In 1949, Reeves cut a number of songs for the small self-governing Macy mark, none of which were particularly successful. In the early '50s, Reeves distinct that he would make broadcasting his occupational group, initially working for KSIG in Gladewater, TX, before establishing himself at KGRI in Henderson. Over the succeeding few age, Reeves was a disk jockey and newscaster at KGRI, moving to KWKH in Shreveport, LA, in November of 1952, becoming host of the popular Louisiana Hayride. Late in 1952, Hank Williams failed to make an appearance on the show, and Reeves panax quinquefolius in his home. His performance was enthusiastically received, and Abbott Records immediately signed him to a record contract. "Mexican Joe" was Reeves' debut single for Abbott, and it cursorily climbed to number one in the spring of 1953, disbursal nine weeks at the peak of the charts. It was followed by another number one come to, "Bimbo," later in 1953, establishing that Reeves was not a one-hit wonder; by and by that same year, he was made a full-time member of the Louisiana Hayride. During 1954 and 1955, he had four-spot early arrive at singles for Abbott and its parent caller, Fabor, before RCA gestural him to a long-run deal in 1955; that same year, he united the Grand Ole Opry. At RCA, Reeves began to develop the distinctively fluent, luxuriant, and pop-oriented expressive style of rural area that made him a ace and earned him the cognomen Gentleman Jim. Peaking at number quaternary, "Yonder Comes a Sucker" was his first gear Top Ten pip for RCA in the summer of 1955. It kicked off a remarkable streak of 40 come to singles, most of which charted in the Top Ten. Many of his singles too became pop crossovers, which indicates just how much of a pop influence there was on his music. Indeed, Reeves' vocal style derived from the crooning of Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby, and early in his career he abandoned cowhand outfits for upscale suits. In the march, he brought country music to a novel, urban audience.
Throughout the '50s and early '60s, Reeves racked up a number of major hits and land classics like "Little Joe Walls" (number one for ashcan School weeks, 1957), "Anna Marie" (1958), "Dismal Boy" (number iI, 1958), "Billy goat Bayou" (number one for basketball team weeks, 1959), "He'll Have to Go" (number one for 14 weeks, 1960), "Good-bye Amigo" (number iI, 1962), "Welcome to My World" (number iI, 1964), and "I Guess I'm Crazy" (number one for seven-spot weeks, 1964). "Four-spot Walls" was the turning point in his career, proving to both Reeves himself and his producer, Chet Atkins, that his main informant of achiever would come from ballads. As a resultant role, Reeves became an level bigger principal, not only in America simply throughout the earth. Reeves toured Europe and South Africa, building a strong following in countries that rarely had been open to rural area medicine in the past.
Reeves was at the summit of his vocation when his private plane crashed outside of Nashville on July 31, 1964. The bodies of Reeves and his director, Dean Manuel, were set up 2 days after and were buried in his homestate of Texas. Though Reeves had died, his popularity did non fly -- in fact, his gross sales increased undermentioned his death. Throughout the late '60s, RCA released a series of posthumous singles, many of which -- including "This Is It" (1965), "Is It Really Over?" (1965), "Distant Drums" (1966), and "I Won't Come in While He's There" (1967) -- hit number one. The antecedently unissued songs were oftentimes interracial in with previously released material on album releases, making his catalog perplexing only profitable for RCA. The flow of unreleased Reeves material did non finish during the '70s or '80s -- in fact, there wasn't a twelvemonth betwixt 1970 and 1984 when there wasn't a Reeves single in the charts, either at the elevation or in the frown regions. Reeves was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1967, and 2 years later, the Academy of Country Music instituted the Jim Reeves Memorial Award. Though the inundation of unreleased substantial ceased in the mid-'80s, the cultus encompassing Reeves ne'er declined, and in the '90s, Bear Family released Welcome to My World, a 16-disc box set containing his integral recorded works.
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