The Essential Jim Reeves [RCA Nashville/Legacy] Jim Reeves

BUY THIS ITEM

  • $15.99 List price
    $15.09 Online price
    (Save 5%)
    $13.58 Member price
    Join Now
    • skip to cart
  • Add To List uiAction=GetAllLists&page=List&pageType=list&ean=828768143025&productCode=MU&maxCount=100&threshold=3

GET FREE SHIPPING ON ORDERS OF $25 OR MORE

DELIVERY & GIFT DETAILS:

Usually ships within 24 hours

Delivery Time and Shipping Rates

Eligible for gift wrap & gift message.

Enter a zip code

CD - Remastered

  • Release Date: 05/30/2006
  • 2 Disc Set
  • Sales Rank: 8,465
  • Label: RCA
  • UPC: 828768143025

Listener Rating: (1 ratings)

See All Detailed Ratings

Customers who bought this also bought

 
  • Overview
  • Tracks
  • Editorial Reviews
  • Customer Reviews
  • Details & Credits
Track List
Click on LISTEN or link to hear an audio clip.
To listen to samples you'll need a Windows Media Player

The Essential Jim Reeves [RCA Nashville/Legacy]

Disc 1
1LISTENMexican Joe / Jim Reeves and the Circle O Ranch Boys 2:39
2LISTENBimbo 2:48
3LISTENBeatin' on the Ding Dong 2:22
4LISTENPenny Candy 2:31
5LISTENDrinking Tequila 2:45
6LISTENYonder Comes a Sucker 2:36
7LISTENAccording to My Heart 2:37
8LISTENWaiting for a Train 2:09
9LISTENFour Walls 2:50
10LISTENTwo Shadows on Your Window 2:21
View all tracks on this disc

Disc 2
1LISTENLosing Your Love 2:18
2LISTENAdios Amigo 2:32
3LISTENI'm Gonna Change Everything 2:05
4LISTENIs This Me? 2:09
5LISTENGuilty 3:11
6LISTENWelcome to My World 2:34
7LISTENLove Is No Excuse 2:32
8LISTENI Guess I'm Crazy 2:24
9LISTENI Won't Forget You 2:02
10LISTENThis Is It 3:07
View all tracks on this disc

See all tracks

About this Artist

Editorial Reviews

Professional baseball's loss became country music's great gain when a leg injury short-circuited Jim Reeves's big league dreams. Big league in baseball, that is -- Reeves, since he signed with RCA in 1955, became a fixture in the upper reaches of both the country and pop charts on the strength of his Chet Atkins-produced, pop-influenced "Nashville Sound." Reeves's smooth, personable tenor and engaging personality on disc had real staying power: For some 20 years following his death in an airplane crash in 1964, his posthumous releases, with newly overdubbed instrumental parts that fit perfectly, continued to sell briskly -- one of his biggest hits, Cindy Walker's brooding "Distant Drums," was a No. 1 country record for four weeks in 1966; several other Reeves singles went Top 10 right into 1970, and still others continued to chart into 1984. Few artists have ever done more with a heartbreaking ballad as Reeves did with the likes of "Four Walls," "He'll Have to Go," "Two Shadows on a Window," and the lush, string-enriched "Is It Really Over." Impeccably remastered and incorporating Reeves's early, swinging novelty hits for the small Abbott label (including his No. 1 debut in 1953, "Mexican Joe") and all the essential RCA sides up to 1970's tear-stained "Angels Don't Lie" (a No. 4 country single, six years after his demise), this double-disc anthology (which includes an impressive capsule history of Reeves's career by Rich Kienzle) is an essential, must-have survey of Gentleman Jim's enduring legacy in song. David McGee, Barnes & Noble



More Reviews and Recommendations

Customer Reviews

  • Listener Rating:
  • Ratings: 1Reviews: 1

Essential Jim Reeves [RCA Nashville/Legacy]by Anonymous

Reader Rating:
See Detailed Ratings

May 31, 2006: Reeves was a consistent presence in the country charts throughout the late 50s and early 60s, landing single after single in the upper reaches of the country charts, and often finding crossover success in the pop world. So unquenchable was the public's thirst for his work that even his untimely death in a 1964 plane crash couldn't quell his commercial success his posthumous releases continued to land at the top of the country chart throughout the rest of the '60s, and albums that mixed these hits with previously released material continued to sell briskly. ¶ Reeves' earliest successes, recorded for Fabor Robison's Abbott label, hardly predicted the soft Nashville Sound he'd spearhead just a few years later. 1953's "Mexican Joe" and "Bimbo," are chock full of twang, and though the playful lyrics are more Arthur Godfrey than Hank Williams, the barrelhouse piano, fiddle and steel are miles from the pop-influenced material Reeves would record at RCA. It was that 1955 transition, moving from Abbott to RCA (and not coincidentally moving from the Louisiana Hayride to the Grand Ol' Opry) that gave Reeves his new sound. ¶ It wasn't an instantaneous transition, as 1955's "Yonder Comes a Sucker" shows. Reeves is still singing country, and his 1956 cover of Jimmie Rodgers' "Waiting for a Train" still has fiddle and steel at the break. Where you can really start to hear the turn is with 1957's Chet Atkins produced "Four Walls," on which the tempo is slowed, smooth background singers are added, and Reeves draws out his vocal into a bona fide croon. Throughout the rest of the decade Reeves and Atkins continued to explore and tune the new sound, smoothing out both the singing and arrangements as they went. ¶ Reeves discovery of himself as a ballad singer had nothing but a positive effect on his career, sustaining his country success and crossing over with the likes of "Four Walls, "He'll Have to Go," and "Welcome to My World." Throughout the early '60s his singles continued to top the country chart while regularly turning up in the lower reaches of the pop top 100. Though Reeves could write his own material, he and Atkins also had good ears for songs from Nashville stalwarts like Roger Miller, Bill Anderson, Harlan Howard, and many others. The result is an unusually strong and deep catalog of easy-going material that shares some of the somnambulistic qualities of Perry Como, but retaining a hint of the edge with which Reeves began. ¶ Among the dozens of Reeves collections, this 2-CD set stands tall. Originally released in 2003 under the title "Jim Reeves – Anthology," it includes material that wouldn't fit on a single disc, yet it's not so encyclopedic (as is Bear Family's 16-disc "Welcome to My World") to be without focus. Reeves best-loved hits are here, running from his Abbott sides, through his early work at RCA to his most famous Nashville sound hits and through posthumous hits "Is it Really Over?" "Distant Drums" and "I Won't Come in While He's There." The rebranding of this 2003 anthology only extends to the title and cover art the track list and liner notes remain the same as the original "Anthology" release. [©2006 redtunictroll at hotmail dot com]