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Jim Reeves Snapshot

First Name

Jim

Last Name

Reeves

Date of Birth

20 August 1923

Build

Average

Hair Color

Brown - Light

Place of Birth

Panola County, Texas, USA

Star Sign

Leo

Date of Death

31 July 1964

Place of Death

Brentwood, Williamson Co., Tennessee, USA

Cause of Death

plane crash

Ethnicity

White

Religion

Christian

Gender

Male

Nationality

American

Music Genre

Country

Music Style

Country-Pop, Nashville Sound/Countrypolitan, Traditional Country

Music Mood

Soothing, Intimate, Amiable/Good-Natured, Gentle, Sentimental, Laid-Back/Mellow, Calm/Peaceful, Reserved, Reflective, Earnest, Elegant, Sophisticated, Cheerful, Wistful

Instrument

Vocals

Music Mood

Engineer

Instrument

Guitar

Wikipedia Text

James Travis Reeves (August 20, 1923 � July 31, 1964) was an American country and popular music singer-songwriter popular during the 1950s and 1960s who was well-known for being a practitioner of the new, so-called Nashville sound (a mixture of older country-style music with elements of popular music). Known as Gentleman Jim, his songs continued to score the charts for years after his death at age 40 in a private airplane crash. He is a member of both the Country Music and Texas Country Music Halls of Fame.

Role ID

Soundtrack, Actor/Actress

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Jim Reeves was one of the best of the "Nashville Sound" style country and western singers. His fame was widespread, not only in the USA, but also in Britain, India, Scandanavia and South Africa. Born in 1923 in Panola County, Texas, Jim after college began to pursue a professional baseball career but was sidelined by an injury to his leg while a pitcher with the Houston Buffaloes. He also for a brief period was a full-time radio announcer. He began his recording career in 1945, and also composed his own songs. The peak of his career came in late 1959-early 1960 with the success of the single "He`ll Have To Go", which reached number 2 in the U.S. hit record charts and number 12 in Britain, ultimately reaching three million in sales. After his success he made successful tours of the U.S., Scandinavia and South Africa, where he starred in a film, Kimberley Jim (1965) (released in the U.S. in 1965) and recorded songs in the local Afrikaans language. Jim was well known as the singer with the velvet voice and the gentlemanly manner. Jim had been planning more tours and television appearances at the time his Beechcraft Debonair aircraft went down in bad weather on July 31, 1964, in Hendersonville, Tennessee, near Nashville - taking the lives of Jim and his business manager. Jim`s widow, Mary Reeves, kept many of the recordings unreleased after his death in backlog and had them released, little by little over the years, to great success - so much so that younger executives in the record business had to be reminded that Jim has been gone for over 35 years! He even had an album reach Gold status in Denmark in 1999! It is a source of great frustration to Jim`s fans and family that his great catalog of music does not get equal airplay today in the U.S. compared with other artists who have gone on such as Patsy Cline. But Jim`s legacy still lives on, as one of the greatest voices in recorded music, country or otherwise.

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www.imdb.com/name/nm0716224/bio

Full Name at Birth

James Travis Reeves

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