"Welcome to My World (Jim Reeves song) ""Welcome to My World"" is a popular music standard written by Ray Winkler and John Hathcock (1919-2000) and recorded by many artists, most notably Jim Reeves. Though the song is credited to Winkler and Hathcock, the melody was likely written by Eddie McDuff rather than Winkler. A traditional love song, the bridge includes lyrics taken from (""""Knock and the door will open; seek and you will find; ask and you'll be given"" ... ,"" from the Sermon on the Mount). The most famous version was performed by country music singer Jim Reeves, whose"
"Reeves walked off the stage during a concert in Lifford in protest at the poor condition of the supplied piano, the Avons (as they later became popularly called) took over and entertained the crowd, to much subsequent publicity and acclaim. In December 1964, Cunningham and the Mighty Avons had a Top-10 hit with the song ""Tribute to Jim Reeves"", which also entered the British charts (the first time for an Irish artiste), and played on ""Top of the Pops"" (also an Irish first), which further boosted their career. Their major hit was ""Lovely Leitrim"" in September 1965, which stayed at"
"of Home' hit the top spot on 1 December 1966 and so includes three weeks at No. 1 during 1967. The song has featured prominently on several of Reeves' albums which have been released through the years. Distant Drums (song) ""Distant Drums"" is a song which provided US singer Jim Reeves with his only UK No. 1 hit – albeit posthumously – in the United Kingdom in 1966, some two years after his death in a plane crash on 31 July 1964. The song remained in the UK Singles Chart for 45 weeks. The single also topped the US country"
"Distant Drums (song) ""Distant Drums"" is a song which provided US singer Jim Reeves with his only UK No. 1 hit – albeit posthumously – in the United Kingdom in 1966, some two years after his death in a plane crash on 31 July 1964. The song remained in the UK Singles Chart for 45 weeks. The single also topped the US country chart for four weeks, becoming his most successful posthumous single. Although Roy Orbison had recorded the song in 1963, it is Reeves' version of ""Distant Drums"" which has endured over the years. During its time at the"
"country music magazine interviewer, ""Jim Reeves my husband is gone; Jim Reeves the artist lives on."" During 1966, Reeves' record ""Distant Drums"" hit Number 1 on the British singles chart and remained there for five weeks, beating competition from the Beatles' ""Yellow Submarine"" and ""Eleanor Rigby"" (a double-sided ""A"" release), and the Small Faces' song, ""All Or Nothing"". The song stayed in the UK charts for 45 weeks as well as taking the Number 1 on the US country music chart. Originally, ""Distant Drums"" had been recorded merely as a ""demo"" for its composer, Cindy Walker, believing it was for"
"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 1 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"
"Sincerely""—name Hank Williams as the absentee.) Jim Reeves was a country music singer who had success early on in his career with hits such as ""I Love You"" (a duet with Ginny Wright), ""Mexican Joe"", and ""Bimbo"" which reached Number 1 on the U.S. Country Charts in 1954. In addition to those early hits, Reeves recorded many other songs for Fabor Records and Abbott Records. In 1954, Abbott Records released a 45 single with ""Bimbo"" on side-A which hit #1 and featured Little Joe Hunt of the Arkansas Walk of Fame. Jim Reeves and Little Joe Hunt met at the"
"Mexican Joe (song) ""Mexican Joe"" is 1953 single by Jim Reeves. Accompanying Jim Reeves on ""Mexican Joe"" were the Circle O Ranch Boys and was Jim Reeves' debut single on the country charts. ""Mexican Joe"" hit number one on the country charts for six weeks with a total of twenty six weeks on the chart. Featuring ""Big"" Red Hayes on the fiddle and Floyd Cramer on the piano, ""Mexican Joe"" was a rollicking, Western swing-influenced tale of a bandito and drifter who engages in a lifestyle of women, carousing and gambling. Reeves — an announcer on KWKH-AM in Shreveport, Louisiana"
"in the early 1950s — had released several singles prior to ""Mexican Joe,"" but none attained the level of national success needed to reach any of ""Billboard""'s country music component charts in use at the time. ""Mexican Joe"" became Reeves' first major success nationally and would eventually pave the way to superstardom. As was the case with several of Reeves' early national hits, ""Mexican Joe"" differed greatly from the smooth ballads — recorded in the style of the Nashville sound, in contrast to those early novelty hits — that he later recorded and made famous, including ""Four Walls"" and ""He'll"
"Boston. An added benefit to this string of engagements was the opportunity to hear American music which hadn't yet been played in the UK and Ireland. The first song gleaned in this fashion was the Jim Reeves classic, ""(That's When I see the Blue in Your) Pretty Brown Eyes"" which Dolan released on the Pye label in 1966. A second US tour in 1967 led to an appraisal in Las Vegas and a substantial offer to appear there but he turned it down. Eventually in 1980 he accepted $10,000 a week plus board and lodgings to perform for six weeks"
"Have to Go."" Mexican Joe (song) ""Mexican Joe"" is 1953 single by Jim Reeves. Accompanying Jim Reeves on ""Mexican Joe"" were the Circle O Ranch Boys and was Jim Reeves' debut single on the country charts. ""Mexican Joe"" hit number one on the country charts for six weeks with a total of twenty six weeks on the chart. Featuring ""Big"" Red Hayes on the fiddle and Floyd Cramer on the piano, ""Mexican Joe"" was a rollicking, Western swing-influenced tale of a bandito and drifter who engages in a lifestyle of women, carousing and gambling. Reeves — an announcer on KWKH-AM"
"Thee"", ""Take My Hand, Precious Lord"", ""Across The Bridge"", ""Where We'll Never Grow Old"". He was given the name Gentleman Jim. an apt description of Jim Reeves both on stage & off. Reeves scored his greatest success with the Joe Allison composition ""He'll Have to Go"", a success on both the popular and country music charts, which earned him a platinum record. Released during late 1959, it scored Number 1 on ""Billboard magazine""'s Hot Country Songs chart on February 8, 1960, which it scored for 14 consecutive weeks. Country music historian Bill Malone noted that while it was in many"
"duo in ""The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer"", ""Shooting Stars"", and ""Bang Bang, It's Reeves and Mortimer"", some of which also featured future cast members of ""The Fast Show"" and ""Little Britain"". Reeves is one of the few comedians to have had a number one record in the UK Singles Chart, which he did in company with The Wonder Stuff, singing ""Dizzy"" (previously a number one hit for Tommy Roe). Including ""Dizzy"", he released two other singles from his 1991 album ""I Will Cure You"". A 1994 pilot written by Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson entitled ""The Honeymoon's Over"" was"
"He had his first song published that year, ""In a Mansion Stands My Love,"" which was recorded by Jim Reeves as the ""B"" side of his 1960 hit ""He'll Have to Go."" His recording of his song ""Rednecks, White Socks, and Blue Ribbon Beer"" was his only top 10 hit, peaking at No. 4 on the ""Billboard magazine"" Hot Country Singles chart in October 1973. The song was nominated later that year for a Grammy Award. Russell is also known for hits such as ""The Baptism of Jesse Taylor,"" ""Catfish John,"" and ""Hello, I Love You."" Years later, George Strait"
"include the Tams' 1964 recording ""Hey Girl Don't Bother Me"" (UK No. 1, July 1971) - which was popularised by Midlands DJ Carl Dene - the Fascinations' 1966 single ""Girls Are Out to Get You"" (UK No. 32, 1971), the Elgins' ""Heaven Must Have Sent You"" (UK No. 3 July 1971), the Newbeats' 1965 American hit ""Run Baby Run"" (UK No. 10, Oct 1971), Bobby Hebb's ""Love Love Love"" which was originally the B-side of ""A Satisfied Mind"" (UK No. 32 August 1972), Robert Knight's ""Love On a Mountain Top"" of 1968 (UK No. 10, November 1973) and R. Dean"
"love not to be”. ""You Don't Know Me"" has been recorded by numerous artists over the years, most successfully by Jerry Vale (1956); Lenny Welch (1960); Ray Charles (1962); and Elvis Presley (1967). ""Anna Marie"", was a hit for Jim Reeves in 1957 and the beginning of another productive artist-writer association which culminated in ""This is It"" (1965) and ""Distant Drums"" (a posthumous hit for Reeves). ""Distant Drums"" remained at No.1 on the British charts for five weeks in 1966. Reeves recorded many of Walker's compositions, she often wrote specifically for him and offered him the right of first refusal"
"standard. The Spencer Davis Group had their first UK number one with the Jackie Edwards penned ""Keep on Running"" (1965), but became largely a vehicle for the young keyboard player and vocalist Steve Winwood, who at only 18 co-wrote ""Gimme Some Lovin'"" (1967) and ""I'm a Man"" (1967), both of which reached the ""Billboard"" 100 top 10 and became R&B standards. The Moody Blues had only one major R&B hit with a cover of ""Go Now"" (1964), which reached number one in the UK and number ten in the US. Subsequent singles failed to penetrate the top 20 and hardly"
"songs by British artists on the ""Billboard"" pop charts, behind ""Candle in the Wind 1997""/""Something About the Way You Look Tonight"" by Elton John (14 weeks, 1997-1998) and ""We Found Love"" by Rihanna with Calvin Harris (10 weeks, 2011). In addition, for more than 12 years Lynn was the only female solo artist from the UK to have a number-one hit in the United States, a feat finally matched by ""Downtown"" by Petula Clark in January 1965. The English version of the song was covered in 1963 by Jim Reeves on his LP, ""The International Jim Reeves"". Greek singer Demis"
"Cloud That Cried"" ran their course, more hit songs followed. They included ""Please, Mr. Sun"", ""Such a Night,"" ""Walkin' My Baby Back Home,"" ""A Sinner Am I"" and ""Yes Tonight Josephine."" He had a United Kingdom number 1 hit with ""Just Walkin' in the Rain"" (which Ray initially disliked) during the Christmas season in 1956. He hit again in 1957 with ""You Don't Owe Me a Thing,"" which reached number 10 on the Billboard charts in the United States. Though his American popularity was declining in 1957, he remained popular in the United Kingdom, breaking the attendance record at the"
"rave and blues"". Through a distribution deal with Polydor Records, the Experience's first single, ""Hey Joe"", backed with ""Stone Free"", was released on December 16, 1966. After appearances on the UK television shows ""Ready Steady Go!"" and the ""Top of the Pops"", ""Hey Joe"" entered the UK charts on December 29 and peaked at number six. Further success came in March 1967 with the UK number three hit ""Purple Haze"", and in May with ""The Wind Cries Mary"", which remained on the UK charts for eleven weeks, peaking at number six. On March 12, 1967, he performed at the Troutbeck"
"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 Number 1 in the Top Ten and scored the chart for 29 weeks. ""I Love You Because"" was his greatest success in Norway, scoring Number 1 during 1964 and scoring on the list for 39 weeks. His"
"the British Elvis and recognised as one of the best voices of the rock and roll era of pre-Beatles Britain. His first single, ""A White Sport Coat"", in the first seven weeks sold in excess of 300,000 copies, together with ""Stairway of Love"", which remained in the chart for eight weeks, and his own version of ""Start Movin'"" at number 14, put his records in the Top 20 of the UK Singles Chart twice in the same year, securing his name in the ""Guinness Book of Records"". He toured Britain, was one of the first to appear in the BBC"
"in the UK chart. Elvis Presley reached number 2 in the UK chart with ""Heartbreak Hotel"" in 1956 and had nine more singles in the Top 30 that year. His first number 1 was ""All Shook Up"" in 1957 and there would be more chart-toppers for him and for Buddy Holly and the Crickets and Jerry Lee Lewis in the next two years. The initial response of the British music industry was to attempt to produce exact copies of American records. These were often recorded with session musicians and, even if note perfect, lacked the energy and spontaneity that characterised"
"successes including ""Cumberland Gap"" (1957), ""Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour"" (1958) and ""My Old Man's a Dustman"" (1960). However, the British rock and roll scene was starting to take off, producing home-grown stars like Tommy Steele, Marty Wilde and Cliff Richard and the Shadows (themselves originally involved in skiffle). Donegan was the only skiffle act to make a serious impact on the charts, and even he began to look outmoded. The skiffle craze was largely over by 1958, as its enthusiasts either abandoned music for more stable employment or moved into some of the forms of music that"
"number 29441), that reached number 3 on the Billboard charts and number 2 in the UK chart listings. He was quickly followed by Jimmy Young, whose version hit number 1 on the British charts. Jimmy Young also later re-recorded another version of his 1955 chart topper in early 1964, which rose to number 43 in the UK. Two weeks after Young's version entered the top 10 of the British charts in June 1955, Liberace would score a number 20 hit (Philips PB 430). Roy Hamilton's version (Epic Records catalog number 9102) reached number 1 on the R&B Best Sellers list"
"""Like I Do"", which peaked at No. 3 in the UK in late-January 1963 and achieved silver certification for selling in excess of 250,000 copies in the United Kingdom. In 1963, Evans competed in the British trials for the Eurovision Song Contest with the song ""Pick the Petals"", but came in third; Ronnie Carroll represented the UK that year in the competition. She continued releasing singles through the 1960s, as well as one EP (1963's ""Melancholy Me"", on Oriole Records) and an album, ""Like I Do"", also on Oriole (1963). Evans had a total of four UK Top 40 hits"
"first period of British success in the late 1960s started with ""New York Mining Disaster 1941"" and the band added drummer Colin Petersen and guitarist Vince Melouney to their line up. They toured Europe in 1967 and 1968 as well as the US in August 1968. The band's first UK No. 1 was ""Massachusetts"" which features Gibb on lead vocal. On the day it reached number one, 5 November 1967, Robin Gibb recalled to ""The Mail on Sunday"" on 1 November 2009: On 13 June 1968, Gibb recorded demos for seven songs, accompanying himself on guitar. The tape listed Robin"
"late 1964 and early 1965 they broke through with their late 1965 single ""Keep on Running"", which knocked The Beatles off the number 1 position in the UK in January 1966. Two more UK hit singles followed during 1966 alongside two highly successful albums, before the November 1966 release of their own composition ""Gimme Some Loving"" – the group's masterpiece and one of the great recordings of the 1960s. This and its 1967 Winwood-written follow up ""I'm a Man"" were top 10 hits on both sides of the Atlantic selling over a million copies and adding a huge fanbase in"
"(a UK no. 5, 1964) and “Genie with the Light Brown Lamp"" (UK no. 17, 1965) as well as all the tunes on the 1964 Rhythm & Greens EP. They also wrote the Cliff Richard and the Shadows hits, ""I Could Easily Fall (In Love with You)"" (UK no. 6, 1964), ""Time Drags By"" (UK no. 10, 1966) and ""In the Country"" (UK no. 6, 1967). He later went on to write for other artists such as Elvis Presley and Olivia Newton-John (""Let Me Be There"" (US no. 6, 1973), ""If You Love Me, Let Me Know"" (US no. 5,"
"Stones. The Stones had previously had hard rock hits such as ""(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"" (1965), and with ""Paint It Black"", they now combined hard rock with psychedelia. Other psychedelic rock #1 hits over the years were: 1967 - ""Ruby Tuesday"" (The Rolling Stones), ""Light My Fire"" (The Doors), ""The Letter"" (The Box Tops); 1968 - ""Hello, I Love You"" (The Doors), ""People Got to Be Free"" (The Rascals); 1969 - ""Crimson and Clover"" (Tommy James and the Shondells, psychedelic garage rock); 1970 - ""Venus"" (Shocking Blue). For the next several years, as new psychedelic subgenres began to mushroom,"
"Jim Reeves. ""Heaven Says Hello"" (recorded by Sonny James) and ""You Are My Treasure"" (Jack Greene) were hits in 1968, both written by Walker. In 1970 Walker became a charter member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 1981 Mickey Gilley's version of ""You Don't Know Me"" was a hit in the country charts. A year later Walker had her last major hit with Ricky Skaggs’ reworking of ""I Don't Care"". It has been estimated that more than 500 of Walker’s songs have been recorded and that her songs made the Top 40 charts (country or pop) more than"
"Three"" in June 1961. ""Quarter To Three"" sold one million records, earning a gold disc. Subsequent hits, under his modified name, included ""School Is Out"" (#5), ""Dear Lady Twist"" (#9), ""School Is In"" (#28) and ""Twist, Twist, Señora"" (#10) in the early 1960s. In a 1963 tour of Europe, he headlined above the Beatles. His hits featured solos by the saxophonist Gene Barge. ""Quarter to Three"" appears on The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list. In the early 1980s, Bonds had a career resurgence with two albums ""Dedication"" and ""On the Line"","
"school at 16 he went to England and worked as a carpenter, playing Irish traditional music and gaelic football during his spare time. In 1958 he returned to Ireland. Still working as a carpenter, he soon joined the part-time Gowna-based Grafton Showband, but left it in 1961 to become fully professional as the lead singer of the Mighty Avons, based in Cavan. That band initially specialised in covers of Jim Reeves songs and similar country material. The band's first taste of fame came when they were supporting Jim Reeves during the Irish leg of his European tour in 1963; when"