Jim Reeves~ "Then I'll Stop Loving You"

Uploaded on Mar 19, 2011

Jim Reeves sings "Then I'll Stop Loving You" at the Country Show.

Lyric:
If there's water in the desert
Sand out in the sea
If you were not an angel
Sweet as you can be

If you can turn the night to day
Make all your dreams come true
Say how far it is to heaven
Then I'll stop loving you

If the earth is up above us
Stars are down below
If there are daisies in the desert
Roses in the snow

If today can be tomorrow
If old things can be new
You can live without a heartbeat
Then I'll stop loving you

There's no daisies in the desert
No roses in the snow
The earth is not above us
The stars are not below

Today can't be tomorrow
Old things can't be new
I can't live without a heartbeat
I can't stop loving you

There're no daisies in the desert
No roses in the snow
The earth is not above us
The stars are not below

Today can't be tomorrow
Old things can't be new
I can't live without a heartbeat
And I can't stop loving you

Jim responded to a request by his secretary, Joyce Jackson, to cut this number at his last recording session and how thankful we are. Timeless classic sung by a legend.

Jim recorded this song at his last RCA Studio B session on July 2, 1964. He died 29 days later, July 31, Jim Reeves 1964.

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"I Can't Stop Loving You" is a popular song written and composed by country singer, songwriter and musician Don Gibson, who first recorded it on December 30, 1957, for RCA Victor Records.

It was released in 1958 as the B-side of "Oh, Lonesome Me", becoming a double-sided country hit single.

The song was covered by Ray Charles in 1962, featured on Charles' Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, and released as a single.

Charles' version reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1962, for five weeks.

This version went to number one on the U.S. R&B and Adult Contemporary charts,.^[1][2]

The Ray Charles version is noted for his saying the words before the last five lines of the song on the final Chorus: "Sing the Song, Children".

It was ranked #161 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and #49 on CMT's 100 Greatest Songs in Country Music.

 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).

Known as "Gentleman Jim", his songs continued to chart for years after his death.

Reeves died in the crash of a private airplane. He is a member of both the Country Music and Texas Country Music Halls of Fame.

Jim Reeves
Background information
Birth name	James Travis Reeves
Also known as	Gentleman Jim
Born	August 20, 1923 Galloway, Texas, U.S.
Died	July 31, 1964 (aged 40) Davidson County, Tennessee, U.S.
Genres	Country, Nashville sound, Gospel
Occupations	Singer-songwriter, musician
Years active	1949–1964
Labels	RCA Victor, Fabor, Macy, Abbott
Associated acts	Chet Atkins, Floyd Cramer, Dottie West

 

South Africa

During the early 1960s, Reeves was more popular in South Africa than Elvis Presley and recorded several albums in the Afrikaans language.

In 1963, he toured and was featured in a South African film, Kimberley Jim.

The film was released with a special prologue and epilogue in South African cinemas after Reeves' death, praising him as a true friend of the country. The film was produced, directed, and written by Emil Nofal.^{[citation needed]}

Reeves was one of an exclusive trio of performers to have released an album there that played at the little-used 16⅔ rpm speed.

This unusual format was more suited to the spoken word and was quickly discontinued for music. The only other artists known to have released such albums in South Africa were Elvis Presley and Slim Whitman.

Britain and Ireland

Reeves toured Britain and Ireland during 1963 between his tours of South Africa and Europe.

Reeves and the Blue Boys were in Ireland from May 30 to June 19, 1963, with a tour of US military bases from June 10 to June 15, when they returned to Ireland.

They performed in most counties in Ireland, though Reeves occasionally abbreviated performances because he was unhappy with the piano.

In a June 6, 1963 interview with Spotlight magazine, Reeves expressed his concerns about the tour schedule and the condition of the pianos, but said he was pleased with the audiences.

There was a press reception for him at the Shannon Shamrock Inn organized by Tom Monaghan of Bunratty Castle, County Clare.

Show band singers Maisie McDaniel and Dermot O' Brien welcomed him on May 29, 1963.

A photograph appeared in the Limerick Leader on 1 June 1963. Press coverage continued from May until Reeves's arrival with a photograph of the press reception in The Irish Press.  

Billboard magazine in the US also reported the tour before and after.

The single "Welcome to My World" with the B/W side "Juanita" was released by RCA Victor during June 1963 and bought by the distributors Irish Records Factors Ltd. This scored the record number one while Reeves was there during June.

There were a number of accounts of his dances in the local newspapers and a good account was given in The Kilkenny People of his dance in the Mayfair Ballroom where 1,700 persons were present.

There was a photograph in The Donegal Democrat of Reeves's singing in the Pavesi Ball Room on June 7, 1963, and an account of his non-appearance on stage in The Diamond, Kiltimagh, County Mayo in The Western People representing how the tour went in different areas.

He planned to record an album of popular Irish songs, and had three number one songs in Ireland during 1963 and 1964: "Welcome to My World", "I Love You Because", and "I Won't Forget You".

 (The last two are estimated to have sold 860,000 and 750,000 respectively in Britain alone, excluding Ireland.)

Reeves had 11 songs in the Irish charts from 1962 to 1967.

He recorded two Irish ballads, "Danny Boy" and "Maureen".

"He'll Have to Go" was his most popular song there and was at number one and on the charts for months during 1960.

He was one of the most popular recording artists in Ireland, in the first ten after the Beatles, Elvis and Cliff Richard.

He was permitted to perform in Ireland by the Irish Federation of Musicians on the condition that he share the bill with Irish show bands, becoming popular by 1963.

The British Federation of Musicians would not permit him to perform there because no agreement existed for British show bands to travel to America in exchange for the Blue Boys playing in Britain.

Reeves, however, performed for British radio and TV programmes.

Norway

Reeves played at the sports arena Njårdhallen, Oslo on April 16, 1964 with Bobby Bare, Chet Atkins, the Blue Boys and the Anita Kerr Singers.

They performed two concerts; the second was televised and recorded by the Norwegian network NRK (Norsk Rikskringkasting, the only one in Norway at the time).

The complete concert, however, was not recorded, including some of Reeves' last songs.

There are reports he performed "You're the Only Good Thing (That's Happened to Me)" in this section.

The program has been repeated on NRK several times over the years.

His first success in Norway, "He'll Have to Go", scored No. 1 in the Top Ten and scored the chart for 29 weeks.

"I Love You Because" was his greatest success in Norway, scoring No. 1 during 1964 and scoring on the list for 39 weeks.

His albums spent 696 weeks in the Norwegian Top 20 chart, making him one of the most popular music artists in the history of Norway.

Last recording session

Reeves' last recording session for RCA Victor had produced "Make the World Go Away", "Missing You", and "Is It Really Over?"

When the session ended with some time remaining on the schedule, Reeves suggested he record one more song.

He taped "I Can't Stop Loving You", in what was to be his last RCA recording.

He made one later recording, however, at the little studio in his home.

During July 1964 Reeves recorded "I'm a Hit Again", using just an acoustic guitar as accompaniment.

That recording was never released by RCA (because it was a home recording not owned by the label), but appeared during 2003 as part of a collection of previously unissued Reeves songs released on the VoiceMasters label.

Death

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.

The two had secured a deal on some real estate (Reeves had also unsuccessfully tried to buy property from the LaGrone family in Deadwood, Texas, north of his birthplace of Galloway).

While flying over Brentwood, Tennessee, they encountered a violent thunderstorm. A subsequent investigation showed that the small airplane had become caught in the storm and Reeves suffered spatial disorientation.

The singer's widow, Mary Reeves (1929-1999), probably unwittingly started the rumor that he was flying the airplane upside down and assumed he was increasing altitude to clear the storm.

However, according to Larry Jordan, author of the 2011 biography, Jim Reeves: His Untold Story, this scenario is refuted by eyewitnesses known to crash investigators who saw the plane overhead immediately before the mishap, and confirmed that Reeves was not upside down.

Jordan writes extensively about forensic evidence (including from the long-elusive tower tape and accident report), which suggests that instead of making a right turn to avoid the storm (as he had been advised by the Approach Controller to do), Reeves turned left in an attempt to follow Franklin Road to the airport.

In so doing, he flew further into the rain.

While preoccupied with trying to re-establish his ground references, Reeves let his airspeed get too low and stalled the aircraft.

Relying on his instincts more than his training, evidence suggests he applied full power and pulled back on the yoke before leveling his wings—a fatal, but not uncommon, mistake that induced a stall/spin from which he was too low to recover.

 Jordan writes that according to the tower tape, Reeves ran into the heavy rain at 4:51 p.m. and crashed only a minute later, at 4:52 p.m.

When the wreckage was found some 42 hours later, it was discovered the airplane's engine and nose were buried in the ground due to the impact of the crash.

The crash site was in a wooded area north-northeast of Brentwood approximately at the junction of Baxter Lane and Franklin Pike Circle, just east of Interstate 65, and southwest of Nashville International Airport where Reeves planned to land.

Coincidentally, both Reeves and Randy Hughes, the pilot of Patsy Cline's ill-fated airplane, were trained by the same instructor.^{[citation needed]}

On the morning of August 2, 1964, after an intense search by several parties (which included several personal friends of Reeves including Ernest Tubb and Marty Robbins)

The bodies of the singer and Dean Manuel were found in the wreckage of the aircraft and, at 1:00 p.m. local time, radio stations across the United States began to announce Reeves' death formally.

Thousands of people traveled to pay their last respects at his funeral two days later. The coffin, draped in flowers from fans, was driven through the streets of Nashville and then to Reeves' final resting place near Carthage, Texas.

Source:Wikipedia

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