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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.
The Best of Jim Reeves Volume III "I Heard a Heart Break Last Night" b/w "Golden Memories and Silver Tears" (from The International Jim Reeves) 9 9 — — 1 — 38 — — The Best of Jim Reeves Vol. IV: 1968 "That's When I See the Blues (In Your Pretty Brown Eyes)" b/w "I've Lived a Lot In My Time" (from According to My Heart) 9 10 — — 5 ...
"Adios Amigo" is a song written by Ralph Freed and Jerry Livingston, performed by Jim Reeves, and released on the RCA label (catalog no. 45-RCA-1293). It debuted on the Billboard country and western charts in May 1962, spent nine weeks at the No. 2 spot, and remained on the charts for a total of 21 weeks. [ 1 ]
The Best of Jim Reeves is a compilation album by Jim Reeves, released in 1964 on RCA Victor. The album spent eight weeks on the top of the Billboard country albums chart in August–September 1964 [2] and four weeks at number 3 in the UK in February–March 1965. [3]
"Mexican Joe" became Reeves' first major success nationally and would eventually pave the way to superstardom. As was the case with several of Reeves' early national hits, "Mexican Joe" differed greatly from the smooth ballads — recorded in the style of the Nashville sound , in contrast to those early novelty hits — that he later recorded ...
The most famous version was performed by country music singer Jim Reeves, who styled the song in his favoured style of Nashville Sound.Reeves' version was included on his 1962 album A Touch of Velvet and was released as a single in the United States in early 1964, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in the spring of that year.
"This Is It" is a 1965 single by Jim Reeves. "This Is It" was Reeves' second posthumous single to reach number one on the U.S. country singles chart. The single stayed at the top of the chart for three weeks and spent a total of twenty-two weeks on the chart. [1] "
is an electronically created "duet" featuring country music singers, Jim Reeves and Patsy Cline, who had both died in separate plane crashes (Cline in 1963, Reeves in 1964) and had never recorded together during their lifetimes. In 1961, both singers recorded their own solo versions of the song and released it to various albums.