Jim Reeves - Milestones of a Country Legend - Jim Reeves, Vol. 1-10 '2016

Tracks list

Tracklist

Milestones of a Country Legend - Jim Reeves, Vol. 1
01. Roly Poly
02. Have I Told You Lately That I Love You
03. Breeze (Blow My Baby Back to Me)
04. Waltzing on Top of the World
05. Oklahoma Hills
06. Love Me a Little Bit More
07. Tweedle Otwill
08. Each Time You Leave
09. Ichabod Crane
10. Your Old Love Letters
11. Beyond the Shadow of a Doubt
12. Highway to Nowhere
13. Bimbo
14. How Many
15. Echo Bonita
16. Where Does a Broken Heart Go
17. Penny Candy
18. Mother Went A-Walkin
19. Mexican Joe
20. Then Ill Stop Loving You
21. Drinking Tequila
22. Gypsy Heart
23. What Were You Doing Last Night
24. Let Me Love You a Little

Milestones of a Country Legend - Jim Reeves, Vol. 2
01. Teardrops in My Heart
02. I Get the Blues When It Rains
03. You Belong to Me
04. Everywhere You Go
05. Need Me
06. I Care No More
07. My Happiness
08. Yours
09. Thats My Desire
10. Blues in My Heart
11. I Dont See Me in Your Eyes Anymore
12. Final Affair
13. Marie
14. Mona Lisa
15. My Juanita
16. Charmaine
17. Margie
18. Anna Marie
19. Sweet Sue, Just You
20. Linda
21. Ramona
22. Maria Elena
23. My Mary
24. Good Night Irene

Milestones of a Country Legend - Jim Reeves, Vol. 3
01. How Long Has It Been
02. A Beautiful Life
03. Teach Me How to Pray
04. In the Garden
05. The Flowers, The Sunset, The Trees
06. It Is No Secret
07. Padre of Old San Antone
08. Precious Memories
09. Suppertime
10. Whispering Hope
11. Evening Prayer
12. God Be with You
13. Someday (Youll Want Me to Want You)
14. Just Call Me Lonesome
15. (Now and Then Theres) A Fool Such as I
16. Til the End of the World
17. Hows the World Treating You
18. Throw Another Log on the Fire
19. Making Believe
20. Satan Cant Hold Me
21. Am I Losing You
22. Scarlet Ribbons
23. Dear Hearts and Gentle People
24. May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You

Milestones of a Country Legend - Jim Reeves, Vol. 4
01. Dark Moon
02. Oh, How I Miss You Tonight
03. Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me
04. Im Getting Better
05. Almost
06. Youre Free to Go
07. Youre the Only Good Thing (Thats Happened to Me)
08. Have I Stayed Away Too Long
09. No One to Cry To
10. I Was Just Walkin out the Door
11. Room Full of Roses
12. We Could
13. According to My Heart
14. Dont You Want to Be My Girl (Poor Little Doll)
15. Dont Tell Me
16. Youll Never Be Mine Again
17. Ive Lived a Lot in My Time
18. If You Were Mine
19. Dont Ask Me Why
20. Stand at Your Window
21. What Would You Do
22. I Cant Fly

Milestones of a Country Legend - Jim Reeves, Vol. 5
01. Hell Have to Go
02. I Love You More
03. Wishful Thinking
04. Honey Wont You Please Come Home
05. Im Beginning to Forget You
06. Billy Bayou
07. If Heartache Is the Fashion
08. Partners
09. Theme of Love (I Love to Say I Love You)
10. Id Like to Be
11. After Awhile
12. Home
13. The Blizzard
14. The Streets of Laredo
15. That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine
16. Rodger Young
17. The Fools Paradise
18. Its Nothin to Me
19. The Mighty Everglades
20. Danny Boy
21. The Letter Edged in Black
22. The Tie That Binds
23. The Wreck of the Number Nine

Milestones of a Country Legend - Jim Reeves, Vol. 6
01. Trouble in the Amen Corner
02. Im Waiting for Ships That Never Come In
03. Annabel Lee
04. The Gun
05. The Farmer and the Lord
06. The Shifting Whispering Sands
07. Old Tige
08. Why Do I Love You (Melody of Love)
09. (Far Away Feeling) The Spell of the Yukon
10. Men with Broken Hearts
11. Too Many Parties and Too Many Pals
12. Seven Days
13. Have You Ever Been Lonely (Have You Ever Been Blue)
14. Theres Always Me
15. Just Walking in the Rain
16. Be Honest with Me
17. Welcome to My World
18. (Its No) Sin
19. I Fall to Pieces
20. Am I That Easy to Forget
21. Blue Skies
22. All Dressed up and Lonely
23. Wild Rose
24. Im a Fool to Care

Milestones of a Country Legend - Jim Reeves, Vol. 7
01. We Thank Thee
02. Where Well Never Grew Old
03. Ill Fly Away
04. Across the Bridge
05. Have Thine Own Way, Lord
06. My Cathedral
07. The Night Watch
08. Id Rather Have Jesus
09. Where Do I Go from Here
10. Take My Hand Precious Lord
11. This World Is Not My Home
12. Oh, Gentle Shepherd
13. A Railroad Bum
14. Blue Side of Lonesome
15. Waitin for a Train
16. I Wont Forget You
17. My Lips Are Sealed
18. Most of the Time
19. When Two Worlds Collide
20. Yonder Comes a Sucker
21. A Fallen Star
22. Highway to Nowhere

Milestones of a Country Legend - Jim Reeves, Vol. 8
01. Memories Are Made of This
02. Roses Are Red (My Love)
03. After Loving You
04. Stand In
05. Waltzing on Top of the World
06. When You Are Gone
07. Just out of Reach
08. I Love You Because
09. Id Fight the World
10. The One That Got Away
11. Once Upon a Time
12. I Never Pass There Anymore
13. My Hearts Like a Welcome Mat
14. Teardrops of Regret
15. I Could Cry
16. El Rancho Del Rio
17. Its Hard to Love Just One
18. Butterfly Love
19. Let Me Love You Just a Little
20. Wagon Load of Love

Milestones of a Country Legend - Jim Reeves, Vol. 9
01. Beatin on a Ding Dong
02. The Wilder Your Heart Beats
03. I Love You
04. My Rambling Heart
05. Red Eyed and Rowdy
06. Give Me One More Kiss
07. Im Hurtin Inside
08. Ill Follow You
09. Are You the One
10. Hillbilly Waltz
11. Pickin a Chicken
12. The Mother of a Honky Tonk Girl
13. Look Behind You
14. Young Hearts
15. Four Walls
16. Two Shadows on Your Window
17. Overnight

Milestones of a Country Legend - Jim Reeves, Vol. 10
01. Blue Boy
02. In a Mansion Stands My Love
03. I Missed Me
04. I Know One
05. Am I Losing You
06. What Would You Do
07. (How Can I Write on Paper) What I Feel in My Heart
08. Losing Your Love
09. Is This Me
10. Im Gonna Change Everything
11. Adios Amigo
12. Pride Goes Before a Fall
13. A Letter to My Heart
14. Tahiti
15. Bolandse Nooientjie
16. Ek Verlang Na Jou
17. Die Ou Kalahari


Gentleman Jim Reeves was perhaps the biggest male star to emerge from the
Nashville sound. His mellow baritone voice and muted velvet orchestration
combined to create a sound that echoed around his world and has lasted to this
day. Detractors will call the sound country-pop (or plain pop), but none can
argue against the large audience that loves this music. Reeves was capable of
singing hard country (Mexican Joe went to number one in 1953), but he made his
greatest impact as a country-pop crooner. From 1955 through 1969, Reeves was
consistently in the country and pop charts -- an amazing fact in light of his
untimely death in an airplane accident in 1964. Not only was he a presence in
the American charts, but he became country musics foremost international
ambassador and, if anything, was even more popular in Europe and Britain than in
his native America. After his death, his fan base didnt diminish at all, and
several of his posthumous hits actually outsold his earlier singles; no less
than six number one singles arrived in the three years following his burial. In
fact, during the 70s and 80s, he continued to have hits with both unreleased
material and electronic duets like Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me with Deborah
Allen and Have You Ever Been Lonely? with his smooth-singing female counterpart
of the plush Nashville sound, Patsy Cline, who also perished in an airplane
crash, in 1963. But Reeves legacy remains with lush country-pop singles like
Four Walls (1957) and Hell Have to Go (1959), which defined both his style and
an entire era of country music.
Reeves was born and raised in Galloway, TX, where he was one of nine children.
Tragically, his father died when Jim was only ten months old, forcing his mother
to farm and raise her family. At the age of five, he was given an old guitar,
and shortly afterward, he heard a Jimmie Rodgers record through his older
brother. From that moment on, Reeves was entranced by country music and Rodgers
in particular. By the time he was 12 years old, he had already appeared on a
radio show in Shreveport, LA. Though he was fascinated with music, Reeves also
was a talented athlete and during his teens he decided he was going to pursue a
career as a baseball player. Winning an athletic scholarship to the University
of Texas, Reeves enrolled at the school to study speech and drama, but he
dropped out after six weeks to work at the shipyards in Houston. Soon, he had
returned to baseball, playing in the semiprofessional leagues before signing
with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1944. He stayed with the team for three years
before seriously injuring his ankle and thereby ruining his chances of a
prolonged athletic career.
For the next few years, Reeves went through a number of blue-collar jobs while
trying to decide on a profession. During this time he began singing as an
amateur, appearing both as a solo artist and as the frontman for Moon Mullicans
band. In 1949, Reeves cut a number of songs for the small independent Macy
label, none of which were particularly successful. In the early 50s, Reeves
decided that he would make broadcasting his vocation, initially working for KSIG
in Gladewater, TX, before establishing himself at KGRI in Henderson. Over the
next few years, Reeves was a disc 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 sang in his place. 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 quickly climbed to number one in the
spring of 1953, spending nine weeks at the top of the charts. It was followed by
another number one hit, Bimbo, later in 1953, establishing that Reeves was not a
one-hit wonder; later that same year, he was made a full-time member of the
Louisiana Hayride. During 1954 and 1955, he had four other hit singles for
Abbott and its parent company, Fabor, before RCA signed him to a long-term deal
in 1955; that same year, he joined the Grand Ole Opry. At RCA, Reeves began to
develop the distinctively smooth, lush, and pop-oriented style of country that
made him a superstar and earned him the nickname Gentleman Jim. Peaking at
number four, Yonder Comes a Sucker was his first Top Ten hit for RCA in the
summer of 1955. It kicked off a remarkable streak of 40 hit singles, most of
which charted in the Top Ten. Many of his singles also became pop crossovers,
which indicates exactly 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 cowboy outfits for upscale suits.
In the process, he brought country music to a new, urban audience.
Throughout the 50s and early 60s, Reeves racked up a number of major hits and
country classics like Four Walls (number one for eight weeks, 1957), Anna Marie
(1958), Blue Boy (number two, 1958), Billy Bayou (number one for five weeks,
1959), Hell Have to Go (number one for 14 weeks, 1960), Adios Amigo (number two,
1962), Welcome to My World (number two, 1964), and I Guess Im Crazy (number one
for seven weeks, 1964). Four Walls was the turning point in his career, proving
to both Reeves himself and his producer, Chet Atkins, that his main source of
success would come from ballads. As a result, Reeves became an even bigger star,
not only in America but throughout the world. Reeves toured Europe and South
Africa, building a strong following in countries that rarely had been open to
country music in the past.
Reeves was at the height of his career when his private plane crashed outside of
Nashville on July 31, 1964. The bodies of Reeves and his manager, Dean Manuel,
were found two days later and were buried in his homestate of Texas. Though
Reeves had died, his popularity did not vanish - in fact, his sales increased
following 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 Wont Come in While Hes There (1967) -
hit number one. The previously unissued songs were frequently mixed in with
previously released material on album releases, making his catalog confusing but
profitable for RCA. The flow of unreleased Reeves material did not cease during
the 70s or 80s - in fact, there wasnt a year between 1970 and 1984 when there
wasnt a Reeves single in the charts, either at the top or in the lower regions.
Reeves was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1967, and two years
later, the Academy of Country Music instituted the Jim Reeves Memorial Award.
Though the flood of unreleased material ceased in the mid-80s, the cult
surrounding Reeves never declined, and in the 90s, Bear Family released Welcome
to My World, a 16-disc box set containing his entire recorded works.

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