Jim Reeves / discography
This discography is an overview of the singles and albums produced by the US country singer Jim Reeves in the USA. According to sources and record awards, he has sold more than 4.3 million records in his career, including over three million in his home country alone. The most successful Reeves release is the album The Best Of Jim Reeves with over 560,000 units sold.
Overview
During his 16-year recording career between 1949 and 1964, Reeves released over 40 singles and seven albums in the United States. After his untimely death in 1964, Reeves' record company RCA Victor posthumously released another 30 singles and 30 albums from previous productions by 1983.
US discography
Singles
From page | Catalog no. | publication | Remarks |
Macy's | |||
My Heart's Like a Welcome Mat / Teardrops of Regret | 115 | 1949 | |
Chicken Hearted / I've Never Been So Blue | 132 | 1950 | |
Abbott | |||
Wagon Load of Love / Where You Doing Last Night | 115 | January 1953 | |
Mexican Joe / I Could Cry | 116 | March 1953 | |
Butterfly Love / Let Me Love You Just a Little | 137 | June 1953 | |
El Rancho Del Rio / It's Hard to Love Just One | 143 | August 1953 | |
Bimbo / Gypsy Heart | 148 | November 1953 | |
Then I'll Stop Loving You / Echo Bonita | 160 | March 1954 | |
Beatin 'on The Ding Dong / My Ramblin' Heart | 164 | May 1954 | |
Padre of Old San Antone / Mother Went A-Walkin ' | 168 | July 1954 | |
Penny Candy / I'll Follow You | 170 | September 1954 | |
Where Does a Broken Heart Go / The Wilder You Heart Beats | 174 | December 1954 | |
Drinking Tequila / Red Eyed And Rowdy | 178 | March 1955 | |
Tahiti / Give Me One More Kiss | 180 | July 1955 | |
Are You the One / How Many | 184 | August 1955 | with Alvadean Cocker |
Let Me Remember / Hillbilly Waltz | 186 | October 1956 | |
RCA Victor | |||
Yonder Comes a Sucker / I'm Hurtin 'Inside | 6200 | June 1955 | |
I've Lived a Lot in My Time / Jimbo Jenkins | 6274 | September 1955 | |
If You Were Mine / That's a Sad Affair | 6401 | January 1956 | |
My Lips Are Sealed / Pickin 'a Chicken | 6517 | April 1956 | |
According to My Heart / The Mother of a Honky Tonk Girl | 6620 | August 1956 | with Carol Johnson |
Penny Candy / Bimbo | 6625 | August 1956 | |
Mexican Joe / How Many | 6626 | August 1956 | |
Drinking Tequila / Then I'll Stop Loving You | 6627 | August 1956 | |
Am I Losing You? / Waiting for a train | 6749 | November 1956 | |
Four Walls / I Know (And You Know) | 6874 | March 1957 | |
Young Hearts / Two Shadows on Your Window | 6973 | July 1957 | |
Anna Marie / Everywhere You Go | 7070 | October 1957 | |
I love you more / overnight | 7171 | February 1958 | |
Blue Boy / Theme of Love | 7266 | June 1958 | |
Billy Bayou / I'd Like to Be | 7380 | October 1958 | |
Home / If Heartache Is the Fashion | 7479 | February 1959 | |
Partners / I'm Beginning To Forget You | 7557 | June 1959 | |
He'll Have to Go / In a Mansion Stands My Love | 7643 | November 1959 | |
I Know One / I'm Getting Better | 7766 | June 1960 | |
Am I Losing You? (1960s version) / I Missed Me | 7800 | October 1960 | |
The Blizzard / Danny Boy | 7855 | February 1961 | |
Stand At Your Window / What Would You Do? | 7905 | June 1961 | |
What I Feel in My Heart / Losing Your Love | 7950 | October 1961 | |
Adios, Amigo / A Letter to My Heart | 8019 | April 1962 | |
I'm Gonna Change Everything / Pride Goes Before a Fall | 8080 | July 1962 | |
Missing Angel / Is This Me? | 8127 | January 1963 | |
Guilty / Little Ole You | 8193 | June 1963 | |
Senor Santa Claus / An Old Christmas Card | 8252 | November 1963 | |
Welcome to My World / Good Morning Self | 8289 | December 1963 | |
Love Is No Excuse / Look, Who's Talking | 8324 | February 1964 | with Dottie West |
I Guess I'm Crazy / Not Until the Next Time | 8383 | June 1964 | |
RCA Victor (posthumous) | |||
I Won't Forget You / Highway to Nowhere | 8461 | October 1964 | |
This Is It / There's That Smile Again | 8508 | February 1965 | |
Is It Really Over? / Rosa Rio | 8625 | June 1965 | |
Snow Flake / Take My Hand, Precious Lord | 8719 | November 1965 | |
Distant Drums / Old Tige | 8789 | March 1966 | |
Blue Side of Lonesome / It Hurts So Much | 8902 | July 1966 | |
I Won't Come While He's There / Maureen | 9057 | December 1966 | |
Trying to Forget / The Storm | 9238 | May 1967 | |
Golden Memories and Silver Tears / I Heard a Heart Break Last Night | 9343 | October 1967 | |
I've Lived a Lot in My Time / That's When I See the Blues | 9455 | February 1968 | |
How Can I Write on Paper? / When You Are Gone | 9614 | August 1968 | |
When Two Worlds Collide / Could I Be Falling in Love | 0135 | April 1969 | |
Nobody's Fool / Why Do I Love You | 286 | November 1969 | |
Angel's Don't Lie / You Kept Me Awake Last Night | 9880 | July 1970 | |
Gypsy Feet / He Will | 9969 | March 1971 | |
The Writing's on the Wall / You're Free to Go | 0626 | January 1972 | |
Am I That Easy to Forget / Rosa Rio | 0963 | May 1973 | |
I'd Fight the World / What's in It for Me | 0255 | March / 1974 | |
You Belong to Me / Maureen | 10299 | May 1975 | |
You'll Never Know / There's That Smile Again | 10416 | October 1975 | |
I Love You Because / Is This Me | 10557 | January 1976 | |
It's Nothin 'to Me / I Won't Forget You | 10956 | March 1977 | |
Little Old Dime / A Letter to My Heart | 11060 | August 1977 | |
You're the Only Good Thing / When You Are Gone | 11187 | January 1978 | |
Don't Let Me Cross Over / I've Enjoyed As Much As I Can Stand | 11564 | May 1979 | with Deborah Allen |
Oh How I Miss You Tonight / The Talking Walls | 11737 | October 1979 | with Deborah Allen |
Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me / Missing Angel | 11946 | March 1980 | with Deborah Allen |
There's Always Me / Somewhere Along the Line | 12118 | October 1980 | |
Have You Ever Been Lonely (& Patsy Cline ) / Welcome to My World | 12346 | October 1981 | |
The Jim Reeves Medley / He'll Have to Go | 13410 | December 1982 | |
The Image of Me / I Won't Come in While He's There | 13693 | December 1983 |
Vinyl music albums *
title | Catalog no. | publication |
---|---|---|
RCA Victor | ||
He'll have to go |
2223 | March 1960 |
A touch of velvet | 2487 | April 1962 |
The International Jim Reeves | 2704 | August 1963 |
Twelve Songs of Christmas | 2758 | October 1963 |
Good 'N' Country | Candem 784 | October 1963 |
Moonlight and Roses | 2854 | May 1964 |
The Best of Jim Reeves | 2890 | May 1964 |
Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? | Candem 842 | October 1964 |
The Jim Reeves Way | 2968 | February 1965 |
Up through the years | 3427 | June 1965 |
The Best of Jim Reeves, Vol. II | 3482 | January 1966 |
Distant drums | 3542 | May 1966 |
yours sincerely | 3709 | October 1966 |
Blue Side of Lonesome | 3793 | May 1967 |
My Cathedral | 3903 | April 1968 |
A touch of sadness | 3987 | April 1968 |
Jim Reeves On Stage | 4062 | October 1968 |
Jim Reeves and Some Friends | 4112 | January 1969 |
The Best of Jim Reeves Volume III | 4187 | July 1969 |
Jim Reeves Writes You a Record | 4475 | January 1971 |
Something special | 4528 | June 1971 |
My friend | 4646 | January 1972 |
Missing You | 4749 | September 1972 |
On I That Easy to Forget | 0039 | April 1973 |
Great Moments With Jim Reeves | 0330 | September 1973 |
I'd fight the world | 0537 | April 1974 |
The Best of Jim Reeves Sacred Songs | 0793 | December 1974 |
Songs of Love | 1037 | June 1975 |
I love you because | 1224 | January 1976 |
A legendary performer | 1891 | August 1976 |
It's notin 'to me | 2309 | April 1977 |
Don't let me cross over | 3454 | August 1979 |
There's always me | 3827 | October 1980 |
Greatest hits | 4127 | November 1981 |
The Jim Reeves Medley | 4531 | January 1983 |
- only stocks with US chart placement
Chart placements
Albums
year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks / months, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks / months, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
DE | UK | US | Country | |||
1960 | He'll have to go | - |
UK16 (4 weeks) UK |
- | - | |
1962 | A touch of velvet | - |
UK8 (11 weeks) UK |
- | - | |
1963 | International Jim Reeves | - |
UK11 (17 weeks) UK |
- |
Country18 (1 week) Country |
|
Good 'N' Country | - |
UK10 (35 weeks) UK |
- |
Country13 (10 weeks) Country |
||
Twelve Songs of Christmas | - |
UK3
silver
(22 weeks)UK |
- | - | ||
1964 | The Best Of Jim Reeves |
DE26 (2 months) DE |
UK3
silver
(47 weeks)UK |
US9
gold
(43 weeks)US |
Country1 (48 weeks) Country |
|
Gentleman Jim | - |
UK3 (23 weeks) UK |
- | - | ||
The Intimate Jim Reeves | - |
UK8 (19 weeks) UK |
- | - | ||
God Be With You | - |
UK10 (10 weeks) UK |
- | - | ||
Moonlight and Roses | - |
UK2 (52 weeks) UK |
US30 (30 weeks) US |
Country1 (31 weeks) Country |
||
Country Side of Jim Reeves | - |
UK12 (5 weeks) UK |
- | - | ||
We Thank Thee | - |
UK17th
silver
(3 weeks)UK |
- | - | ||
Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? | - |
UK12 (5 weeks) UK |
- |
Country5 (17 weeks) Country |
||
1965 | The Jim Reeves Way | - |
UK16 (4 weeks) UK |
US45 (13 weeks) US |
Country2 (31 weeks) Country |
|
Up through the years | - | - | - |
Country1 (24 weeks) Country |
||
1966 | The Best Of Jim Reeves Volume II | - | - |
US100 (6 weeks) US |
Country4 (15 weeks) Country |
|
Distant drums | - |
UK2 (34 weeks) UK |
US21st
gold
(29 weeks)US |
Country1 (32 weeks) Country |
||
Yours Sincerely, Jim Reeves | - | - | - |
Country3 (33 weeks) Country |
||
1967 | Blue Side Of Lonesome | - | - |
US185 (5 weeks) US |
Country3 (20 weeks) Country |
|
1968 | My Cathedral | - |
UK48 (2 weeks) UK |
- |
Country39 (4 weeks) Country |
|
A touch of sadness | - |
UK15 (6 weeks) UK |
- |
Country3 (29 weeks) Country |
||
Jim Reeves On Stage | - |
UK13 (4 weeks) UK |
- |
Country5 (25 weeks) Country |
||
1969 | According to My Heart | - |
UK1 (14 weeks) UK |
- | - | |
Jim Reeves and Some Friends | - |
UK24 (4 weeks) UK |
- |
Country18 (13 weeks) Country |
||
The Best of Jim Reeves Volume III | - | - | - |
Country12 (35 weeks) Country |
||
1971 | Jim Reeves Writes You a Record | - |
UK47 (2 weeks) UK |
- |
Country34 (15 weeks) Country |
|
Something special | - | - | - |
Country13 (14 weeks) Country |
||
Jim Reeves' Golden Records | - |
UK9
gold
(21 weeks)UK |
- | - | ||
Girls I Have Known | - |
UK35 (5 weeks) UK |
- | - | ||
1972 | My friend | - |
UK32 (5 weeks) UK |
- |
Country18 (12 weeks) Country |
|
Missing You | - | - | - |
Country9 (18 weeks) Country |
||
1973 | On I That Easy to Forget | - | - | - |
Country11 (13 weeks) Country |
|
Great Moments With Jim Reeves | - | - | - |
Country32 (11 weeks) Country |
||
1974 | I'd fight the world | - | - | - |
Country13 (13 weeks) Country |
|
The Best of Jim Reeves Sacred Songs | - | - | - |
Country37 (5 weeks) Country |
||
1975 | Songs of Love | - | - | - |
Country34 (11 weeks) Country |
|
40 golden greats | - |
UK1
platinum
(25 weeks)UK |
- | - | ||
1976 | I love you because | - | - | - |
Country24 (8 weeks) Country |
|
A legendary performer | - | - | - |
Country25 (6 weeks) Country |
||
1977 | It's notin 'to me | - | - | - |
Country32 (6 weeks) Country |
|
1978 | Jim Reeves | - | - | - |
Country50 (2 weeks) Country |
|
1979 | Don't let me cross over | - | - | - |
Country23 (31 weeks) Country |
|
1980 | Country gentleman | - |
UK53 (4 weeks) UK |
- | - | |
There's always me | - | - | - |
Country56 (7 weeks) Country |
||
1981 | Greatest hits | - |
UK-
gold
UK
|
- |
Country8 (23 weeks) Country |
with Patsy Cline
|
1983 | The Jim Reeves Medley | - | - | - |
Country65 (2 weeks) Country |
|
1992 | The Definitive Jim Reeves | - |
UK9 (10 weeks) UK |
- | - | |
1996 | The Ultimate Collection | - |
UK17th
gold
(9 weeks)UK |
- | - | |
2003 | Gentleman Jim - Definitive Collection | - |
UK21st
gold
(12 weeks)UK |
- | - | |
2004 | Gentleman Jim - Memories Are Made Of | - |
UK35 (4 weeks) UK |
- | - | |
2009 | The very best of | - |
UK17th
gold
(7 weeks)UK |
- | - | |
The Only Jim Reeves Album You'll Ever | - |
UK17 (7 weeks) UK |
- | - |
gray hatching : no chart data available for this year
Singles
year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks / months, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks / months, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
DE | UK | US | Country | |||
1957 | Four Walls The Best of Jim Reeves |
- | - |
US12 (22 weeks) US |
- | |
Anna Marie Girls I Have Known |
- | - |
US93 (1 week) US |
- | ||
1958 | Blue Boy The Best of Jim Reeves |
- | - |
US45 (6 weeks) US |
Country4 (8 weeks) Country |
|
Billy Bayou He'll Have to Go |
- | - |
US95 (1 week) US |
Country1 (25 weeks) Country |
||
I'd Like to Be He'll Have to Go |
- | - | - |
Country18 (7 weeks) Country |
||
1959 | Home He'll Have to Go |
- | - | - |
Country2 (20 weeks) Country |
|
Partners He'll Have to Go |
- | - | - |
Country5 (16 weeks) Country |
||
I'm Beginning To Forget You He'll Have to Go |
- | - | - |
Country17 (17 weeks) Country |
||
He'll Have to Go He'll Have to Go |
- |
UK12 (31 weeks) UK |
US2 (23 weeks) US |
Country1 (34 weeks) Country |
||
1960 | I Know One Blue Side of Lonesome |
- | - |
US82 (2 weeks) US |
Country6 (16 weeks) Country |
|
I'm Getting Better The Intimate Jim Reeves |
- | - |
US37 (10 weeks) US |
Country3 (18 weeks) Country |
||
Am I Losing You The Best of Jim Reeves |
- | - |
US31 (11 weeks) US |
Country8 (14 weeks) Country |
||
I Missed Me Distant Drums |
- | - |
US44 (6 weeks) US |
Country3 (25 weeks) Country |
||
1961 | Whispering Hope God Be With You |
- |
UK50 (1 week) UK |
- | - | |
The Blizzard Tall Tales and Short Tempers |
- | - |
US62 (4 weeks) US |
Country4 (12 weeks) Country |
||
Stand At Your Window According to My Heart |
- | - | - |
Country16 (6 weeks) Country |
||
What would you do? According to My Heart |
- | - |
US73 (5 weeks) US |
Country15 (11 weeks) Country |
||
Losing Your Love Distant Drums |
- | - |
US89 (3 weeks) US |
Country2 (21 weeks) Country |
||
You're the Only Good Thing The Intimate Jim Reeves |
- |
UK17 (19 weeks) UK |
- | - | ||
(How Can I Write On Paper) What I Feel In My Heart Something Special |
- | - |
US92 (2 weeks) US |
Country7 (16 weeks) Country |
||
1962 | Adios, Amigo The Best of Jim Reeves |
- |
UK23 (21 weeks) UK |
US90 (6 weeks) US |
Country2 (21 weeks) Country |
|
A Letter to My Heart Distant Drums |
- | - | - |
Country20 (3 weeks) Country |
||
I'm Gonna Change Everything Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? |
- |
UK42 (2 weeks) UK |
US95 (2 weeks) US |
Country2 (21 weeks) Country |
||
Pride Goes Before a Fall Up Through the Years |
- | - | - |
Country18 (3 weeks) Country |
||
1963 | Is This Me? The Best of Jim Reeves Vol. II |
- | - | - |
Country3 (23 weeks) Country |
|
Welcome to My World A Touch of Velvet |
- |
UK6 (15 weeks) UK |
- |
Country2 (26 weeks) Country |
||
Guilty The International Jim Reeves |
- |
UK29 (7 weeks) UK |
US91 (2 weeks) US |
Country3 (18 weeks) Country |
||
Good Morning Self Distant Drums |
- | - | - |
Country43 (2 weeks) Country |
||
1964 | I Love You Because Gentleman Jim |
- |
UK5 (39 weeks) UK |
- | - | |
Love Is No Excuse Jim Reeves and Some Friends |
- | - | - |
Country7 (21 weeks) Country |
||
I Guess I'm Crazy The Best of Jim Reeves Vol. II |
- | - |
US82 (5 weeks) US |
Country1 (26 weeks) Country |
||
I Won't Forget You The Country Side of Jim Reeves |
- |
UK3 (26 weeks) UK |
US93 (3 weeks) US |
Country3 (19 weeks) Country |
||
There's A Heartache Following Me Good 'N' Country |
- |
UK6 (13 weeks) UK |
- | - | ||
Not Until the Next Time Distant Drums |
- |
UK13 (12 weeks) UK |
- | - | ||
1965 | It Hurts So Much The Jim Reeves Way |
- |
UK8 (10 weeks) UK |
- | - | |
This Is It Distant Drums |
- | - |
US88 (1 week) US |
Country1 (23 weeks) Country |
||
How Long Has It Been God Be With You |
- |
UK45 (5 weeks) UK |
- | - | ||
This World Is Not My Home We Thank Thee |
- |
UK22 (9 weeks) UK |
- | - | ||
Is It Really Over? Distant drums |
- |
UK17 (9 weeks) UK |
US79 (6 weeks) US |
Country1 (21 weeks) Country |
||
Snow Flake Distant Drums |
- | - |
US66 (6 weeks) US |
Country2 (17 weeks) Country |
||
1966 | Distant Drums Distant Drums |
DE37 (½ month) DE |
UK1 (25 weeks) UK |
US45 (7 weeks) US |
Country1 (21 weeks) Country |
|
Blue Side of Lonesome Blue Side of Lonesome |
- | - |
US59 (8 weeks) US |
Country1 (19 weeks) Country |
||
I Won't Come While He's There Blue Side of Lonesome |
- |
UK12 (11 weeks) UK |
- |
Country1 (16 weeks) Country |
||
1967 | Trying to Forget Blue Side of Lonesome |
- |
UK33 (5 weeks) UK |
- | - | |
The Storm The Best of Jim Reeves Volume III |
- | - | - |
Country16 (14 weeks) Country |
||
I Heard a Heart Break Last Night The Best of Jim Reeves Vol. IV |
- |
UK38 (6 weeks) UK |
- |
Country9 (17 weeks) Country |
||
1968 | That's When I See the Blues (In Your Pretty Brown Eyes) The Best of Jim Reeves Volume III |
- |
UK33 (5 weeks) UK |
- |
Country9 (13 weeks) Country |
|
When You Are Gone A Touch of Sadness |
- | - | - |
Country7 (15 weeks) Country |
||
1969 | When Two Worlds Collide Jim Reeves Writes You a Record |
- |
UK17 (17 weeks) UK |
- |
Country6 (14 weeks) Country |
|
But You Love Me Daddy Jim Reeves and Some Friends |
- |
UK15 (16 weeks) UK |
- | - | ||
Nobody's Fool Jim Reeves Writes You a Record |
- |
UK32 (5 weeks) UK |
- |
Country10 (14 weeks) Country |
||
1970 | Angel's Don't Lie Jim Reeves Writes You a Record |
- |
UK32 (3 weeks) UK |
- |
Country4 (15 weeks) Country |
|
1971 | I Love You Because / He'll Have to Go / Moonlight and Roses |
- |
UK34 (8 weeks) UK |
- | - | |
Gypsy Feet My Friend |
- | - | - |
Country16 (12 weeks) Country |
||
1972 | The Writing's on the Wall My Friend |
- | - | - |
Country15 (14 weeks) Country |
|
You're free to go |
- |
UK48 (2 weeks) UK |
- | - | ||
Missing You Missing You |
- | - | - |
Country8 (16 weeks) Country |
||
1973 | Am I That Easy to Forget Am I That Easy To Forget |
- | - | - |
Country12 (14 weeks) Country |
|
1974 | I'd Fight the World I'd Fight the World |
- | - | - |
Country19 (14 weeks) Country |
|
1975 | You Belong to Me Songs of Love |
- | - | - |
Country54 (11 weeks) Country |
|
You'll Never Know Songs of Love |
- | - | - |
Country71 (6 weeks) Country |
||
1976 | I Love You Because I Love You Because |
- | - | - |
Country54 (9 weeks) Country |
|
1977 | It's nothin 'to me, it's nothin' to me |
- | - | - |
Country14 (13 weeks) Country |
|
Little Old Dime Nashville '78 |
- | - | - |
Country23 (11 weeks) Country |
||
1978 | You're the Only Good Thing (That's Happened To Me) Nashville '78 |
- | - | - |
Country29 (11 weeks) Country |
|
1979 | Don't Let Me Cross Over Don't Let Me Cross Over |
- | - | - |
Country10 (14 weeks) Country |
with Deborah Allen
|
Oh How I Miss You Tonight Don't Let Me Cross Over |
- | - | - |
Country6 (15 weeks) Country |
||
1980 | Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me Don't Let Me Cross Over |
- | - | - |
Country10 (16 weeks) Country |
with Deborah Allen
|
There's Always Me There's Always Me |
- | - | - |
Country35 (11 weeks) Country |
||
1981 | Have You Ever Been Lonely (Have You Ever Been Blue) Greatest Hits |
- | - | - |
Country5 (17 weeks) Country |
with Patsy Cline
|
1982 | The Jim Reeves Medley Greatest Hits |
- | - | - |
Country46 (9 weeks) Country |
|
1983 | The Image of Me Special Collection |
- | - | - |
Country70 (6 weeks) Country |
Awards for music sales
|
|
Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.
Country / Region | silver | gold | platinum | Sales | swell |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources) |
|||||
Norway (IFPI) | - | - | platinum1 | 40,000 | ifpi.no ( Memento from November 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) |
United States (RIAA) | - | 4 × gold4th | platinum1 | 3,000,000 | riaa.com |
United Kingdom (BPI) | 5 × silver5 | 7 × gold7th | platinum1 | 1,300,000 | bpi.co.uk |
All in all | 5 × silver5 | 11 × gold11 | 3 × platinum3 |