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Moonlight And Roses (Jim Reeves Album)
''Moonlight and Roses'' is an album recorded by Jim Reeves and released in 1964 on the RCA Victor label (catalog no. SF-7639). Chet Atkins was the producer. It was Reeves' first album to reach the No. 1 spot on the ''Billboard'' country albums chart. It was the last studio album released in his lifetime. Track listing Side A # "Moonlight And Roses (Bring Mem'ries Of You)" (Black, Moret) :24# "Mexicali Rose" (Stone, Tenney) :26# "Carolina Moon" (Benny Davis, Joe Burke) :28# "Rosa Rio" (Cindy Walker) :53# "Oh What It Seemed To Be" (Benjamin, Carle, Weiss) :52# "What's In It For Me" (Cindy Walker) :26 Side B # "Roses" (Glenn Spencer, Tim Spencer) :28# "One Dozen Roses" (Jurgens, Washburn, Lewis, Donovan) :50# "Moon River" (Mancini, Mercer) :27# "There's A New Moon Over My Shoulder" (Davis, Blastic) :37# "It's Only A Paper Moon" (Rose, Harburg, Arlen) :21# "When I Lost You" (Irving Berlin) :29 See also * Jim Reeves discography This is a detailed discography for American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Reeves
James Travis Reeves (August 20, 1923July 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. Known as "Gentleman Jim", his songs continued to chart for years after his death in a plane crash. He is a member of both the Country Music and Texas Country Music Halls of Fame. Biography Early life and education Reeves was born at home in Galloway, Texas, a small rural community near Carthage. He was the youngest of eight children born to Mary Beulah Adams Reeves (1884-1980) and Thomas Middleton Reeves (1882-1924). He was known as Travis during his childhood years. Winning an athletic scholarship to the University of Texas, he enrolled to study speech and drama but quit after only six weeks to work in the shipyards in Houston. Soon he resumed baseball, playing in the semi-professional leagues before contracting with the St. Louis Cardinals "farm" team dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country Music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, old-time, and American folk music forms including Appalachian, Cajun, Creole, and the cowboy Western music styles of Hawaiian, New Mexico, Red Dirt, Tejano, and Texas country. Country music often consists of ballads and honky-tonk dance tunes with generally simple form, folk lyrics, and harmonies often accompanied by string instruments such as electric and acoustic guitars, steel guitars (such as pedal steels and dobros), banjos, and fiddles as well as harmonicas. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history. The term ''country music'' gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to '' hillbilly music'', with "country music" being used today to describe many styles and subgenres. It came to encomp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RCA Victor
RCA Records is an American record label currently owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. It is one of Sony Music's four flagship labels, alongside RCA's former long-time rival Columbia Records; also Arista Records, and Epic Records. The label has released multiple genres of music, including pop, classical, rock, hip hop, afrobeat, electronic, R&B, blues, jazz, and country. Its name is derived from the initials of its defunct parent company, the Radio Corporation of America (RCA). RCA Records was fully acquired by Bertelsmann in 1987, making it a part of Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) and became a part of Sony BMG Music Entertainment after the 2004 merger of BMG and Sony; it was acquired by the latter in 2008, after the dissolution of Sony/BMG and the restructuring of Sony Music. RCA Records is the corporate successor of the Victor Talking Machine Company, founded in 1901, making it the second-oldest record label in American history, af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chet Atkins
Chester Burton Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001), known as "Mr. Guitar" and "The Country Gentleman", was an American musician who, along with Owen Bradley and Bob Ferguson, helped create the Nashville sound, the country music style which expanded its appeal to adult pop music fans. He was primarily a guitarist, but he also played the mandolin, fiddle, banjo, and ukulele, and occasionally sang. Atkins's signature picking style was inspired by Merle Travis. Other major guitar influences were Django Reinhardt, George Barnes, Les Paul, and, later, Jerry Reed. His distinctive picking style and musicianship brought him admirers inside and outside the country scene, both in the United States and abroad. Atkins spent most of his career at RCA Victor and produced records for the Browns, Hank Snow, Porter Wagoner, Norma Jean, Dolly Parton, Dottie West, Perry Como, Floyd Cramer, Elvis Presley, the Everly Brothers, Eddy Arnold, Don Gibson, Jim Reeves, Jerry Reed, Sk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimberley Jim (soundtrack)
''Kimberley Jim'' is a soundtrack album recorded by Jim Reeves for the 1964 motion picture ''Kimberley Jim'', in which he starred. The album was released by RCA Victor RCA Records is an American record label currently owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. It is one of Sony Music's four flagship labels, alongside RCA's former long-time rival Columbia Records; also Aris .... Track listing References 1964 soundtrack albums Jim Reeves albums RCA Victor soundtracks {{1960s-country-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Best Of Jim Reeves
''The Best of Jim Reeves'' is a compilation album by Jim Reeves, released in 1964 on RCA Victor RCA Records is an American record label currently owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. It is one of Sony Music's four flagship labels, alongside RCA's former long-time rival Columbia Records; also Aris .... The album spent eight weeks on the top of the ''Billboard'' country albums chart in August–September 1964 and four weeks at number 3 in the UK in February–March 1965. Track listing Charts Awards and nominations Notes References {{DEFAULTSORT:Best of Jim Reeves 1964 compilation albums Jim Reeves albums RCA Victor compilation albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moon River
"Moon River" is a song composed by Henry Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was originally performed by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 movie ''Breakfast at Tiffany's (film), Breakfast at Tiffany's'', winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song. The song also won the 1962 Grammy Awards for Grammy Award for Record of the Year, Record of the Year and Grammy Award for Song of the Year, Song of the Year. The song has been recorded by many other artists. It became the theme song for Andy Williams, who first recorded it in 1962 (and performed it at the Academy Awards ceremony that year). He sang the first eight bars of the song at the beginning of each episode of The Andy Williams Show, his eponymous television show and named his production company and venue in Branson, Missouri, after it; his autobiography is called ''"Moon River" and Me''. Williams' version was never released as a single, but it charted as an LP track that he recorded for Columbia on a hit album of 1962, ''Moon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Reeves Discography
This is a detailed discography for American country pop artist Jim Reeves. Albums Singles 1950s 1960s 1970s and 1980s Notes *A ^ "Snowflake" also peaked at number 9 on the '' RPM'' Adult Contemporary Tracks chart in Canada. *B ^ "Adios Amigo" also peaked at #23 in the UK. *C ^ "He'll Have To Go" also made the US R&B charts at position #13. References External links Allmusic Jim Reeves with Discography and Charts {{DEFAULTSORT:Reeves, Jim Country music discographies Discographies of American artists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1964 Albums
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