Jim Reeves Biography
by Humphrey
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 lasted for decades to follow. 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 on the country and pop charts -- a
remarkable fact in light of his untimely death in an airplane accident
in 1964. Not only was he a presence on the American charts, but he
became country music's foremost international ambassador and, if
anything, was even more popular in Europe and Britain than in his native
U.S. Several of his posthumous hits actually outsold his earlier
singles; no less than six number one singles arrived in the three years
following his...
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