There's over 400 songs in Jim's catalogue so happy listening my friend. Ps. My two favourite songs from Jim are, The blue Canadian Rockies and Maureen ❤️❤️👍
And thank you for not interrupting the song. Thats one of the things I like about reaction channels. Some constantly interrupt and its not cool. So thank you.
I'm 60, Jim and Charlie Pride were in my parent's LP collection. Along with The Platters, Statler Brothers and Hank Williams. All, big influences. Much love and peace brother, from the Charlotte area!
Jim performed in the show Nashville Stars on Tour, and they had shows in Copenhagen on the 13th, Stockholm on the 14th and Oslo 15th of April 1964. The Oslo show is avaiable on UA-cam, and the Stockholm show was broadcast on radio in 1966.
I saw Jim Reeves just three and a half months before his fatal plane crash on July 31, 1964. He was better live than on record. An unforgettable experience.❤
You are going on a much deeper dive than most reactors do when they start doing country music, and it is really fun and exciting to watch. I suspect it is because you are more mature, both in general and musically. Whatever the reason, it is quite enjoyable. You are encountering so many artists and songs I grew up with but that I haven't thought about in years. Thank you. I inherited a few boxes of vinyl from my father and there are several Jim Reeves albums in them. You and I are of a similar age (I think 🤔 😊), and while the purity of digital music is impressive, there is just something special and nostalgic about the vinyl experience, isn't there?
What a shame that you had not heard jim reeves before we had heard jim reeves sing since 1955 ew were only 5 years old then and that music what to look into good music ,we have being lissning to jim reeves ever since, we are over 70 years now and we still play jim reeves all day,the songs are so good, there is a story in every song that one has to take notice of what has happened , and let's face it we all have gone through that part of life at some stage,jim reeves has taught us what goog music is, for us nothing else will do but jim reeves ,thanks a lot,
Jim Reeves has to have one of the best voices of all time! Next time you'd like more of this man's buttery voice, try "The Blizzard." He has great story-telling abilities. Thank you for this one!
@@stigbengtsson7026 I can only listen to that one if I'm in the mood for a few little silent tears. I love "Old Tige. It's in my Country or Oldies (or both) playlist. Such great story-telling; you just don't hear those like that anymore. Other favorites are "Scarlett Ribbons", "He'll Have to Go", and "I Love You Because." What a gem Gentleman Jim was.
Sir Gentleman Jim Reeves was more than a singer, He, put his heart and soul into his songs. We have been his fans from day one since we herd him the first time, Sorry people these day haven’t herd nothing, you must have missed much more than you know. Sir Gentleman Jim Reeves sings through your whole body. Something goes through you in every song Hey, sings Looks like He, has walked in your shoes as well . I am in the fan club and will be till the day I die. Me and my family and most of my friends listen to Sir Gentleman Jim Reeves day in and day out. The words in his songs kills you. Jim Reeves will be 100 years old on the 20th of August 2023, Me and my twin have been. To Nashville to Texes and his resting place.because we just can’t get enough of him. We will be there for his 100th birthday too. Sir Gentleman Jim Reeves is on right through the day, Hey died in a plain crash on the 31st of July 1964. Once you have listen to him it is another world Sir Gentleman Jim Reeves was only 40 years old, when Hey left us. Hey has a special place in my heart, One will understand what it is only if you listen to him He, is more than a. Ledger, We miss him so much. Bless his heart,
Jim Reeves has been my favorite singer since I first heard him in the mid sixties. There is something about his voice that is just mezmorizing to me. Love the smoothness and depth and maturity of his voice. He was fortunate to have some great musicians to work with (Chet Atkins, Floyd Cramer, Pig Robbins, Leo Jackson, Bob Moore, Buddy Harmon, Hank Garland, and others) and to have the Anita Kerr SIngers to back him up. I've listened to his records hundreds of hours over the years but never get tired of his voice.
As a native of Texas and born I 1961, Jim Reeves was the lullabies my Daddy sang to me. "Welcome to My World" was one of our favorites. Texas crooning.
If you are thinking of listening to another song by Jim Reeves, you should try "Blue Side of Lonesome". He's calling from a place that is so lonesome that "they say someone broke the bar mirror with only the ghost of a smile". That's LONESOME! To give you a clue of what sort of man Jim was, he was known as "Gentleman Jim". Thanks for playing "He'll Have to Go". That is one of Jim's biggest hits.
I love Jim Reeves. Love his voice. I’ve got to say though, he IS calling her from a bar. If that’s where he hangs out, that might be part of the problem.
Like the men from South used to say " can you not hear this great story" I had my ears cleaned out its funny how you can hear again 🤔🤠 greatstuff, keep on bruv😁🤫🌎🙏🌍🆘✌️
Jim Reeves is the one artist who went on having hit records after he died--not just one or two, but a steady stream. Jim died in a plane crash in July 1964 and the record label had a bunch of his recordings in the can and just kept releasing them through the end of the decade. He scored two more #1 coutry hits in 1965, two in '66, one in '67, plus a several more top-10's into 1970.
Gentleman Jim IS a rockstar in the Philippines and India until now. His Christmas albums are constantly played. His untimely death notwithstanding, his music will always live on. Thank you DJ for this reminder. I must say, I have not listened for a couple of years; your video was timely…
"Snowflake" isn't about Christmas at all but, it sounded that way, as a kid. 😁 Jim was definitely a crooner, up there with Frankie, Dean and more. The wife Hates me when I break into Any song like that. 😆
Jim, and his wife, are buried outside Carthage, Texas. He has a memorial statue there, and many stop to pay their respects. His beloved collie is buried there as well.
Jim's voice was truly beautiful. His Christmas album has been part of my family's holiday tradition for over 40 years. His version of 'I'll Fly Away' is wonderfully simple and tonal.
My Mom loved Him Reeves, so we grew up with his music. Met a student from Nigeria years later, and learned that his Mom loved Reeves as well, so he had also been raised on his music! Small world😊
I was only 3 when Jim Reeves died but my Grandpa had all of his records. He had 45's and LP's of just about every older country artist and played them all the time. He was retired due to black lung from working in the coal mines so he had time on his hands. We stayed at their house in Virginia while my father was deployed during the Vietnam War and he introduced me to all of those old country singers.
Heard alot of music growin up...50s thru 70s country was my dads favorite....miss the music as much as i miss my dad...at least the music takes me back like a time machine. Try some Hank Snow...
@@DjPjrocReacts911 Living the dream! Or is a nightmare? Anyway, I'm living it. 🤠Ive been picking out tunes on the dobro and mandolin to get ready for a jam session tomorrow.
This is a song from my youth in Charleston, S.C. in the early 60,s on am radio. I always loved his voice on those low notes. Thank you for reviewing this beautiful song.
@@DjPjrocReacts911 I did not attend the funeral. There were plane loads of industry people who flew in plus thousands of fans. I was a recently graduated high school senior and there was only so much room. Jim has no claimed children and he believed hi.self sterile from mumps as a young adult. However there is a set of twins born in Texas that have DNA that is a close match to Jim. I often stop at Jim's memorial Park where he and his wife, Mary and their dog are buried.
yes jim was a crooner , this particular song from 1959 i think was also a huge pop hit . jim died in a car wreck at the age of 39 .reeves was one of country's all time greats with a catalogue of hit records .
Well, where I have stated that Patsy Cline was my favorite female singer, Jim Reeves was my favorite male singer. He started out as a DJ himself and then filled in one night on the Louisiana Hay Ride for a singer who at the last minute didn't show. That man was Hank Williams. Just think, if ol' Hank had made it that night, we might not have had this great talent, Jim Reeves. Ps: I would like to hear you do The Auctioneer by Leroy Vandike.
This is what I was raised on. I gauge most singers using Jim Reeves as the guideline. Many songs that were well known by others before him, I heard first by him. Marty Robbins was another of my early influences. Try Deep Dark Water by Jim Reeves. All of Marty's cowboy songs are good but he sang so much more than that. Don't Worry. I'll Walk Alone. My Woman My Wife. You Gave Me A Mountain. Oh, anything by either one is good.
Jim Reeves was a "Country Crooner". The ultimate in that catagory is Eddie Arnold. The sophisticated strings and back up singers is known as the "Nashville Sound". Country was loosing young fans to rock n roll. They developed a more polished sound to expand into urban and suburan areas that had typically shunned more "traditional" country.
Dave, this is such a well written statement, bravo !! Jim Reeves actually pioneered the "Nashville Sound" and the collaborations with Eddy Arnold rose it too a new level. Dave, you are correct in saying Mr. Arnold was the ultimate. Pj, Pj, Pj, if you want to react to one on the most amazing country western singers of all time, do "Cattle Call" by Eddy Arnold. The RCA Victor recording with his boots up in a saddle is amazing. I would love to comment after about this legend singer.
I keep posting on your videos because you are inspiring a true passion in me that I have kind of let drop for a few years, but it’s all coming back since discovering your channel. Sorry if I get too long-winded or pester too much - but talking about recorded music is just something I do! Haha 😆 Anyway, about Jim Reeves - yes, he was a crooner who happened to have a country sort of style. He blended the two styles very well and appealed to many crossover tastes of the era. There were decidedly country numbers like this one, Stand At Your Window, Blue Boy, Bimbo, Snowflake, (a great country beat,) but he also had what would be considered more adult contemporary stuff like my favorite of his, Welcome To My World. Eddy Arnold had a great version of that one as well. A word about labels - each in those days had groupings of artists with like styles, almost to the point where the truly developed ear could discern them and guess with some accuracy what label the artist belonged to. Capitol had a style as I’ve mentioned as did Epic and Columbia. RCA’s style tended to be a bit more refined and croonish while still being country, with artists like Reeves and Arnold, definitely Elvis Presley’s slower and more country stuff, of course Charley Pride and the more adult contemporary Ed Ames. Produced predominantly by session guitarist Chet Atkins, the RCA style is quite recognizable. One other thing RCA did was celebrate its session musicians with albums of their own; I don’t know how many Atkins put out and also pianist Floyd Cramer. They did tons of instrumental versions of the country songs of the day and delved into instrumental versions of many songs on the Hot 100 charts as well.
Jim Reeves, Marty Robbins, Ray Price and a few others introduced a new era of country music called "Countrypolitan". My understanding is that this style combined more of a smooth sound than the twangy Hank Williams Sr style that preceded it. Also, I think there's an early music video of Reeves doing this song on a TV show (I don't know which one). He is sitting in a mock phone booth while singing this song.
Pj, once again, you are reacting to a pioneer. Gentle Jim as he was well know, was the father of a new sound in country western, as noted by your subscriber Dave M as the “Nashville Sound” You will be impressed that in his early days, he too was a DJ, radio announcer at KWKH, the Louisiana Hayride program, where Frank Page introduced Elvis Presley in 1954. His baritone career began, filling in on the program, for an absentee, none other than Hank Williams. Reeves started with the typical hard and loud “East Texas Style” but wanted to sing in his own style. The RCA Victor label rejected this move, but the guy that cut the check, another musical genius, Chet Atkins, told RCA to let him sing how he wanted. His transition lowered the volume and used lower registers in his voice to create a more velvet baritone smooth sound that established him as the “Country Crooner” Jim Reeves was killed in a small aircraft accident, piloted by himself, along with his manger at the time, Dean Manuel, on July 31, 1964 Another artist, Eddy Arnold, was influenced by Reeves style changed, and opened the doors for Arnold to become one of the greatest country/pop artists of all times. I encourage you to do a reaction of Eddy Arnold’s “Cattle Call” the RCA Victor recording is the best recording of Arnold’s amazing voice. I hope you can cover Eddy Arnold some day. Thanks Pj !!
Jim Reeves was indeed a Country music singer, but by the late-1950s, he started to incorporate a more mainstream Pop-oriented sound into his musical repertoire. Reeves’ recording career was in two stages. In the early-1950s, he recorded for the Los Angeles-based Abbott Records label, and recorded regular Country music there, and had a number of hit singles, such as “Mexican Joe” and “Drinking Tequila” (part of which he sang in fluent Spanish). When his Abbott Records contract had expired, Jim Reeves signed with the RCA Records label, and remained on the label until he was killed in a small plane crash in 1964, when sudden bad weather came up while flying the plane, and he crashed into some trees not far from the airport in Nashville. Eddy Arnold, who lived near the crash site, had to identify Reeves’ body from the wrist watch that he wore.
Hey PJ, just came across your channel. Try some Loretta Lynn "you ain't woman enough" and just about anything by Brooks and Dunn my favorites are "Boot Scootin Boogie" and "Believe" and Alan Jackson "Good Time", "Remember When" and "where I come from" Loving the reactions, Sir. 😊
Try some porter he is one of my favorites or maybe some kitty wells she is a forgotten artist but she was a country music first forr lady singers and she put out some of my favorite stuff, i am knew to the channle are you a eagals fan
Thank you. What a voice on that man! 😃 Some claim he was a psychopathic wife beater. Never been proven...and I don't believe he was. What IS proven, though....he died the day I was born. RIP forever, Mr. Reeves.
Nobody could sing like that, man, pure velvet!
Jim Reeves is one of my favorite singers.
My favorite Artist. Love his smooth tone. thanks 😊
legendary singer jim reeves what music legend
There's over 400 songs in Jim's catalogue so happy listening my friend. Ps. My two favourite songs from Jim are, The blue Canadian Rockies and Maureen ❤️❤️👍
Jim wrote and co-wrote nearly sixty songs he recorded himself.
This such a beautiful song. This is what country music is all about.
Reeves and Orbison the best of the best .
One of greatest voice
Gentleman Jim Reeves. Thats what he was called.
Jim reeves was our favorite gospel singer.i still listen to him every night.
Jims really great gospel singer, Wonderful voice, a gift from God ❤
@@stigbengtsson7026 whispering hope is one of my favorite.whats your favorite.
And thank you for not interrupting the song. Thats one of the things I like about reaction channels. Some constantly interrupt and its not cool. So thank you.
Today's country music is just CMINO, Country Music In Name Only.
Hell yes. I agree, I cried when he hit the ground when I was only 10 years old. I have been singing his songs ever since that day.
Talk about SMOOOTHH. Oh Yes❤️
I'm 60, Jim and Charlie Pride were in my parent's LP collection. Along with The Platters, Statler Brothers and Hank Williams. All, big influences. Much love and peace brother, from the Charlotte area!
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My daddy's favorite singer and song. Sweet memories.
Since im being the massive fan of jim Reeves i adored his humble voice is so serenity relaxing.
This is country gold. Now you have entered the true country sound right here
Oh my ! Haven’t heard this in years …. One of my mom’s favourites … now I’m older I appreciate his voice much more.
Jim Reeves was my mom’s favorite singer. TY for taking me back in time. 😀
Gentleman Jim Reeves was the best ever artist.. my dad use to sing his songs to my mom ❤
Jim performed in the show Nashville Stars on Tour, and they had shows in Copenhagen on the 13th, Stockholm on the 14th and Oslo 15th of April 1964.
The Oslo show is avaiable on UA-cam, and the Stockholm show was broadcast on radio in 1966.
I saw Jim Reeves just three and a half months before his fatal plane crash on July 31, 1964. He was better live than on record.
An unforgettable experience.❤
When they visit Scandinavia
Oslo Stockholm Kopenhagen, I guess.
I whish I was there, but I was just 10 years then......
I just wonder where that was? Norway ? Very interesting to know. Thank you.
Cindy walker said his voice will last forever and it's still going.
Appreciate that this song touched you!! Thank you for taking the challenge and sharing!!
They called him Gentleman Jim Reeves.
He was my Dad's favorite
You are going on a much deeper dive than most reactors do when they start doing country music, and it is really fun and exciting to watch. I suspect it is because you are more mature, both in general and musically. Whatever the reason, it is quite enjoyable. You are encountering so many artists and songs I grew up with but that I haven't thought about in years. Thank you.
I inherited a few boxes of vinyl from my father and there are several Jim Reeves albums in them. You and I are of a similar age (I think 🤔 😊), and while the purity of digital music is impressive, there is just something special and nostalgic about the vinyl experience, isn't there?
This is so much fun Richard!
I agree, Richard! I have a collection of vinyl that I wouldn’t trade for anything.
Yes it's true.
I've sung this song a number of times at karaoke. Thanks for the reaction.
This was his first big International hit, followed by several others for many decades.
What a shame that you had not heard jim reeves before we had heard jim reeves sing since 1955 ew were only 5 years old then and that music what to look into good music ,we have being lissning to jim reeves ever since, we are over 70 years now and we still play jim reeves all day,the songs are so good, there is a story in every song that one has to take notice of what has happened , and let's face it we all have gone through that part of life at some stage,jim reeves has taught us what goog music is, for us nothing else will do but jim reeves ,thanks a lot,
Thank you so much. Have a great day
Love that smooth voice.
Jim Reeves has to have one of the best voices of all time! Next time you'd like more of this man's buttery voice, try "The Blizzard." He has great story-telling abilities. Thank you for this one!
One of my favorite too
A man and his horse in a snowstorm, if I remember.......
Old Tige, also a great story.
Jim you are the best ❤
@@stigbengtsson7026 Yes, you remember correctly. That's one off my sentimental favorites, but he has so many.
@@stigbengtsson7026 I can only listen to that one if I'm in the mood for a few little silent tears. I love "Old Tige. It's in my Country or Oldies (or both) playlist. Such great story-telling; you just don't hear those like that anymore. Other favorites are "Scarlett Ribbons", "He'll Have to Go", and "I Love You Because." What a gem Gentleman Jim was.
Sir Gentleman Jim Reeves was more than a singer, He, put his heart and soul into his songs. We have been his fans from day one since we herd him the first time, Sorry people these day haven’t herd nothing, you must have missed much more than you know. Sir Gentleman Jim Reeves sings through your whole body. Something goes through you in every song Hey, sings Looks like He, has walked in your shoes as well . I am in the fan club and will be till the day I die. Me and my family and most of my friends listen to Sir Gentleman Jim Reeves day in and day out. The words in his songs kills you. Jim Reeves will be 100 years old on the 20th of August 2023, Me and my twin have been. To Nashville to Texes and his resting place.because we just can’t get enough of him. We will be there for his 100th birthday too. Sir Gentleman Jim Reeves is on right through the day, Hey died in a plain crash on the 31st of July 1964. Once you have listen to him it is another world Sir Gentleman Jim Reeves was only 40 years old, when Hey left us. Hey has a special place in my heart, One will understand what it is only if you listen to him He, is more than a. Ledger, We miss him so much. Bless his heart,
Ja Jim does not only sing a song, sort of being it with the song, magic ❤
Jim Reeves has been my favorite singer since I first heard him in the mid sixties. There is something about his voice that is just mezmorizing to me. Love the smoothness and depth and maturity of his voice. He was fortunate to have some great musicians to work with (Chet Atkins, Floyd Cramer, Pig Robbins, Leo Jackson, Bob Moore, Buddy Harmon, Hank Garland, and others) and to have the Anita Kerr SIngers to back him up. I've listened to his records hundreds of hours over the years but never get tired of his voice.
I’m still waiting for some more Jim Reeves
Love Jim. Will do more
@@DjPjrocReacts911 thank you 🙏
As a native of Texas and born I 1961, Jim Reeves was the lullabies my Daddy sang to me. "Welcome to My World" was one of our favorites. Texas crooning.
Thank You Texas for giving us Jim Reeves, you must be proud 😎 Jims the best 😎
If you are thinking of listening to another song by Jim Reeves, you should try "Blue Side of Lonesome". He's calling from a place that is so lonesome that "they say someone broke the bar mirror with only the ghost of a smile". That's LONESOME! To give you a clue of what sort of man Jim was, he was known as "Gentleman Jim". Thanks for playing "He'll Have to Go". That is one of Jim's biggest hits.
Gentleman Jim, love it!
That's a great song in it's original version from 1961 with Leo Jackson on lead guitar and Pete Drake on pedal steel.
My Mother loved Jim. Not because she was sad, because of his voice. So pure and 😌
Heart wrenching when he makes the ultimatum! You really notice great details from older school country,! ❤️
I love Jim Reeves. Love his voice. I’ve got to say though, he IS calling her from a bar. If that’s where he hangs out, that might be part of the problem.
He had a beautiful voice.
Like the men from South used to say " can you not hear this great story"
I had my ears cleaned out its funny how you can hear again 🤔🤠 greatstuff, keep on bruv😁🤫🌎🙏🌍🆘✌️
What a wonderful soothing voice. So talented! ❤
I'm 62, and my dad played this guys songs. I remember my dad grabbing my mom up and dancing thru songs like this~Great memories for me.....
I sang this song when I was 4! I loved Jim Reeves. I was very young when he was killed in a plane crash. I remember being very sad.
Jim Reeves was a country crooner what a beautiful voice he had. Anna Marie and Danny Boy are also very beautiful songs.
Jim Reeves is the one artist who went on having hit records after he died--not just one or two, but a steady stream. Jim died in a plane crash in July 1964 and the record label had a bunch of his recordings in the can and just kept releasing them through the end of the decade. He scored two more #1 coutry hits in 1965, two in '66, one in '67, plus a several more top-10's into 1970.
What he had in common with Marty Robbins is that they both had such beautiful voices they could sing anything .
Gentleman Jim IS a rockstar in the Philippines and India until now. His Christmas albums are constantly played.
His untimely death notwithstanding, his music will always live on.
Thank you DJ for this reminder. I must say, I have not listened for a couple of years; your video was timely…
"Snowflake" isn't about Christmas at all but, it sounded that way, as a kid. 😁 Jim was definitely a crooner, up there with Frankie, Dean and more. The wife Hates me when I break into Any song like that. 😆
Could I Be Falling In Love, the whole Intimate Jim Reeves, A Touch of Velvet, and Moonlight and Roses albums
Danced many a waltz to this one! Chicks like a guy who knows how to dance!
Yes Sir, best lesson my Momma ever taught me, ha ha
Jim, and his wife, are buried outside Carthage, Texas. He has a memorial statue there, and many stop to pay their respects. His beloved collie is buried there as well.
Jim's voice was truly beautiful. His Christmas album has been part of my family's holiday tradition for over 40 years. His version of 'I'll Fly Away' is wonderfully simple and tonal.
My father's favorite singer. Played him at my Dad's funeral.
Ahh so many memories. What a voice.
There is also a answer song to this called He'll Have To Stay sung by Jeannie Black it too is awesome!!
My dad used to play and sing this song for mom when I was a kid. I’ve always loved his voice! ☮️❤️🌻👵🏼
My Mom loved Him Reeves, so we grew up with his music. Met a student from Nigeria years later, and learned that his Mom loved Reeves as well, so he had also been raised on his music! Small world😊
Very small
My Dad had a couple of Jim Reeves albums. I think his voice is so beautiful. Love to listen to him. Thanks
Great voice, really smooth
I was only 3 when Jim Reeves died but my Grandpa had all of his records. He had 45's and LP's of just about every older country artist and played them all the time. He was retired due to black lung from working in the coal mines so he had time on his hands. We stayed at their house in Virginia while my father was deployed during the Vietnam War and he introduced me to all of those old country singers.
Thanks for being out there.
What a classic. ❤
Jim's voice was pure silk. Always been one of my favorites. There is a answer song to this. It's called he'll have to stay.
Crooner? God yes! 😊
Heard alot of music growin up...50s thru 70s country was my dads favorite....miss the music as much as i miss my dad...at least the music takes me back like a time machine. Try some Hank Snow...
When I hear the name, Jim Reeves, this is the song that immediately comes to mind.
M&M
Killer voice. How are you M&M?
@@DjPjrocReacts911 Living the dream! Or is a nightmare? Anyway, I'm living it. 🤠Ive been picking out tunes on the dobro and mandolin to get ready for a jam session tomorrow.
@@mintonmiller good luck, jam on!
He was one of my favorites
Ray Price is my lifelong favorite. Gary Stewart runs a close second.
Nice song
This is a song from my youth in Charleston, S.C. in the early 60,s on am radio. I always loved his voice on those low notes. Thank you for reviewing this beautiful song.
I saw Jim Reeves several times as a child with my parents at the Louisiana Hayride. I also went to Carthage, Tx the day of Jim's funeral.
Did you attend the funeral? Do you know if Jim had children?
@@DjPjrocReacts911 I did not attend the funeral. There were plane loads of industry people who flew in plus thousands of fans. I was a recently graduated high school senior and there was only so much room. Jim has no claimed children and he believed hi.self sterile from mumps as a young adult. However there is a set of twins born in Texas that have DNA that is a close match to Jim. I often stop at Jim's memorial Park where he and his wife, Mary and their dog are buried.
Yes, I'd say he was a crooner. Great velvet baritone voice. His background music and singers lended to his ability to cross over into the main stream
Think hi had Frank Sinatra in mind. From the start Jim was high pitch, then he became Naseville Sound. Jim could do both 😎 👍
THANKS seem's I'm late but I'm THERE, cheers👍😁
Coolio 👍😎 cheers bruv👍
yes jim was a crooner , this particular song from 1959 i think was also a huge pop hit . jim died in a car wreck at the age of 39 .reeves was one of country's all time greats with a catalogue of hit records .
Just for fun, check out the cover by Homer and Jethro called He'll Have to Go.
Well, where I have stated that Patsy Cline was my favorite female singer, Jim Reeves was my favorite male singer. He started out as a DJ himself and then filled in one night on the Louisiana Hay Ride for a singer who at the last minute didn't show. That man was Hank Williams. Just think, if ol' Hank had made it that night, we might not have had this great talent, Jim Reeves.
Ps: I would like to hear you do The Auctioneer by Leroy Vandike.
Again I just want hear this song
You should try some of Jim Reeves’ Christmas songs when the time is right. He has a classic album. I recommend Mary’s Boy Child.
He was a country singer.
This is what I was raised on. I gauge most singers using Jim Reeves as the guideline. Many songs that were well known by others before him, I heard first by him. Marty Robbins was another of my early influences. Try Deep Dark Water by Jim Reeves. All of Marty's cowboy songs are good but he sang so much more than that. Don't Worry. I'll Walk Alone. My Woman My Wife. You Gave Me A Mountain. Oh, anything by either one is good.
I don’t know who sang it but there is a response to this song that you might want to listen to.
Jim Reeves was a "Country Crooner". The ultimate in that catagory is Eddie Arnold. The sophisticated strings and back up singers is known as the "Nashville Sound". Country was loosing young fans to rock n roll. They developed a more polished sound to expand into urban and suburan areas that had typically shunned more "traditional" country.
Thanks Dave
Dave, this is such a well written statement, bravo !! Jim Reeves actually pioneered the "Nashville Sound" and the collaborations with Eddy Arnold rose it too a new level. Dave, you are correct in saying Mr. Arnold was the ultimate. Pj, Pj, Pj, if you want to react to one on the most amazing country western singers of all time, do "Cattle Call" by Eddy Arnold. The RCA Victor recording with his boots up in a saddle is amazing. I would love to comment after about this legend singer.
Check out a great song called Rosa Rio by Jim Reeves.
Mama thought he was so handsome. She always said Elvis had nothing on Jim not just in the looks department but his voice as well.
I keep posting on your videos because you are inspiring a true passion in me that I have kind of let drop for a few years, but it’s all coming back since discovering your channel. Sorry if I get too long-winded or pester too much - but talking about recorded music is just something I do! Haha 😆
Anyway, about Jim Reeves - yes, he was a crooner who happened to have a country sort of style. He blended the two styles very well and appealed to many crossover tastes of the era. There were decidedly country numbers like this one, Stand At Your Window, Blue Boy, Bimbo, Snowflake, (a great country beat,) but he also had what would be considered more adult contemporary stuff like my favorite of his, Welcome To My World. Eddy Arnold had a great version of that one as well.
A word about labels - each in those days had groupings of artists with like styles, almost to the point where the truly developed ear could discern them and guess with some accuracy what label the artist belonged to. Capitol had a style as I’ve mentioned as did Epic and Columbia. RCA’s style tended to be a bit more refined and croonish while still being country, with artists like Reeves and Arnold, definitely Elvis Presley’s slower and more country stuff, of course Charley Pride and the more adult contemporary Ed Ames. Produced predominantly by session guitarist Chet Atkins, the RCA style is quite recognizable. One other thing RCA did was celebrate its session musicians with albums of their own; I don’t know how many Atkins put out and also pianist Floyd Cramer. They did tons of instrumental versions of the country songs of the day and delved into instrumental versions of many songs on the Hot 100 charts as well.
Thank you sir! Keep it coming. I so appreciate you taking the time to watch and comment, love it.
My mom's favorite. I remember exactly where we were in the car when we heard on the radio he had been killed.
Jim Reeves, Marty Robbins, Ray Price and a few others introduced a new era of country music called "Countrypolitan". My understanding is that this style combined more of a smooth sound than the twangy Hank Williams Sr style that preceded it.
Also, I think there's an early music video of Reeves doing this song on a TV show (I don't know which one). He is sitting in a mock phone booth while singing this song.
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Pj, once again, you are reacting to a pioneer. Gentle Jim as he was well know, was the father of a new sound in country western, as noted by your subscriber Dave M as the “Nashville Sound”
You will be impressed that in his early days, he too was a DJ, radio announcer at KWKH, the Louisiana Hayride program, where Frank Page introduced Elvis Presley in 1954. His baritone career began, filling in on the program, for an absentee, none other than Hank Williams.
Reeves started with the typical hard and loud “East Texas Style” but wanted to sing in his own style. The RCA Victor label rejected this move, but the guy that cut the check, another musical genius, Chet Atkins, told RCA to let him sing how he wanted. His transition lowered the volume and used lower registers in his voice to create a more velvet baritone smooth sound that established him as the “Country Crooner”
Jim Reeves was killed in a small aircraft accident, piloted by himself, along with his manger at the time, Dean Manuel, on July 31, 1964
Another artist, Eddy Arnold, was influenced by Reeves style changed, and opened the doors for Arnold to become one of the greatest country/pop artists of all times. I encourage you to do a reaction of Eddy Arnold’s “Cattle Call” the RCA Victor recording is the best recording of Arnold’s amazing voice. I hope you can cover Eddy Arnold some day. Thanks Pj !!
Another master class🙏🏾 Thanks for sharing the good stuff. Eddy Arnold coming up soon. I appreciate your contribution, keep up coming ☮️
Jim Reeves was indeed a Country music singer, but by the late-1950s, he started to incorporate a more mainstream Pop-oriented sound into his musical repertoire. Reeves’ recording career was in two stages. In the early-1950s, he recorded for the Los Angeles-based Abbott Records label, and recorded regular Country music there, and had a number of hit singles, such as “Mexican Joe” and “Drinking Tequila” (part of which he sang in fluent Spanish). When his Abbott Records contract had expired, Jim Reeves signed with the RCA Records label, and remained on the label until he was killed in a small plane crash in 1964, when sudden bad weather came up while flying the plane, and he crashed into some trees not far from the airport in Nashville. Eddy Arnold, who lived near the crash site, had to identify Reeves’ body from the wrist watch that he wore.
He signed with RCA Records in 1956.
Do you think he would take no for an answer? Seems like quite the hanger-oner! Classic song.
Probably not.
My favorite Jim Reeves song! You should check out the Ken Burns documentary about Country Music. It’s fascinating and I really think you’ll enjoy it.
Thanks Ben!
Missing You is a good song by Mr Reeves. He was considered a country crooner.
Thank you
Hey PJ, just came across your channel. Try some Loretta Lynn "you ain't woman enough" and just about anything by Brooks and Dunn my favorites are "Boot Scootin Boogie" and "Believe" and Alan Jackson "Good Time", "Remember When" and "where I come from"
Loving the reactions, Sir. 😊
Thanks Lauren!
There's so much "pain" in his delivery, no? He's heartbroken, and it really comes across.
going on 7hrs now. lol
If you haven't yet, give Don Williams a try. He's another one in the vein of Marty Robbins
Try some porter he is one of my favorites or maybe some kitty wells she is a forgotten artist but she was a country music first forr lady singers and she put out some of my favorite stuff, i am knew to the channle are you a eagals fan
If you are referring to the band, yes. The football team, NO
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Thank you. What a voice on that man! 😃
Some claim he was a psychopathic wife beater. Never been proven...and I don't believe he was.
What IS proven, though....he died the day I was born. RIP forever, Mr. Reeves.
Well, there it is folks
Know here's a crooner
Put your sweet lips a little closer to the bone... ah the songs of youth. :D
You funny
Country crooner