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The Coachmen's Turntable 02/06/2017

2/6/2017

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Jim Reeves - A Profile
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​James Travis "Jim" Reeves
 (August 20, 1923 – July 31, 1964) was an American country and popular music singer-songwriter. With records charting from the 1950s to the 1980s, he became well known as a practitioner of the Nashville sound (a mixture of older country-style music with elements of popular music).



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​"Four Walls" is a country song written in 1957 by Marvin Moore and George Campbell. Jim Reeves' version of the song went to number 1 in 1957 on the Country music chart and number 12 on the Pop chart.



​Jim Reeves
 sings "Welcome To My World" ... a single in January 1964...got to #2 on the country charts ...
Reeves was elected posthumously to the Country Music Hall of Fame during 1967, which honored him by saying, "The velvet style of 'Gentleman Jim Reeves' was an international influence. His rich voice brought millions of new fans to country music from every corner of the world. 
On July 31, 1964, Reeves and his business partner and manager Dean Manuel (also the pianist of Reeves' backing group, the Blue Boys) left Batesville, Arkansas, en route to Nashville in a single-engine Beechcraft Debonair aircraft, with Reeves at the controls. While flying over Brentwood, Tennessee,they encountered a violent thunderstorm.  Jim and Dean died in the crash.
During 1998, he was inducted into the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame in Carthage, Texas, where the Jim Reeves Memorial is located. The inscription on the memorial reads, 

"If I, a lowly singer, dry one tear, or soothe one humble human heart in pain, then my homely verse to God is dear, and not one stanza has been sung in vain."

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