Original Jim Reeves?!
Question: Got a cd in a week ago called The Essential Jim Reeves. Sure enough the first 7 songs are originals, but then there's Am I Losing You, Four Walls, He'll Have to Go with, it seems 200 violins more than the 101 Strings Orchestra.
It's been so long that I've heard these songs I don't know if I'm actually hearing the originals. Anybody know any cds out there by Jim Reeves where it really is the originals?
Answers: Got a cd in a week ago called The Essential Jim Reeves. Sure enough the first 7 songs are originals, but then there's Am I Losing You, Four Walls, He'll Have to Go with, it seems 200 violins more than the 101 Strings Orchestra.
It's been so long that I've heard these songs I don't know if I'm actually hearing the originals. Anybody know any cds out there by Jim Reeves where it really is the originals?
It would cost some money, but I PROMISE you it's worth it: "Welcome to My World." It is a SIXTEEN-CD box set that has just about everything on it -- including his "Mary Carter Paint" commercials and the answer song to "Mexican Joe" ("The Marriage of Mexican Joe"). It includes 2 1/2 CDs filled with demo recordings, which, to me, makes it worth the price alone. His album recorded exclusively for South African audiences in Afrikaans is also included.
The only things missing from the collection are "Yours Sincerely, Jim Reeves" (an interview album released in 1967), "Jim Reeves on Stage (released in 1968 from a 1959 concert recording), and the songs from the "Kimberly Jim" soundtrack that Jim didn't sing ("My Life is a Gypsy," "Fall in and Follow," and "The Boom-Chick Polka").
You're absolutely correct: the original releases of "Four Walls" and "He'll Have to Go" did not have any strings. Reeves recorded "Am I Losing You" three times, and one of them DID have strings, but the "hit" version did not.
i dunno -- but Jim Reeves' old tour bus is on display at the Country Music museum in Brady, Texas
(not that it has anything to do with anything - LOL)
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Perhaps it was remastered from analog to digital. Lots of old music sounds crappy in digital. You can hear the mistakes.