Jim Reeves / discography

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Chart placements

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks / months, awardChart placementsChart placementsTemplate: chart table / maintenance / monthly data
(Year, title, rankings, weeks / months, awards, notes)
Remarks
DE DE UK UK US US Country CountryTemplate: chart table / maintenance / charts non-existent
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
silver

(22 weeks)UK
- -
1964 The Best Of Jim Reeves DE26 (2 months)
DE
UK3
silver
silver

(47 weeks)UK
US9
gold
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
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
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
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
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
gold
UK
- Country8 (23 weeks)
Country
1983 The Jim Reeves Medley - - - Country65 (2 weeks)
Country
1992 The Definitive Jim Reeves - UK9 (10 weeks)
UK
- -
1996 The Ultimate Collection - UK17th
gold
gold

(9 weeks)UK
- -
2003 Gentleman Jim - Definitive Collection - UK21st
gold
gold

(12 weeks)UK
- -
2004 Gentleman Jim - Memories Are Made Of - UK35 (4 weeks)
UK
- -
2009 The very best of - UK17th
gold
gold

(7 weeks)UK
- -
The Only Jim Reeves Album You'll Ever - UK17 (7 weeks)
UK
- -

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Singles

year Title
album
Top ranking, total weeks / months, awardChart placementsChart placementsTemplate: chart table / maintenance / monthly data
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks / months, awards, notes)
Remarks
DE DE UK UK US US Country 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
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
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

Silver record

  • United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
    • 1978: for the album Welcome To My World
    • 2020: for the album The Real

Golden record

  • United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
    • 1977: for the album Collection
    • 1998: for the Country Classics album
  • United StatesUnited States United States
    • 1997: for the album Remembering
    • 1996: for the album The Legendary Jim Reeves

Platinum record

  • NorwayNorway Norway
    • 1995: for the album Norske Hits
  • United StatesUnited States United States
    • 1998: for the album The Unforgettable Jim Reeves

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region Silver record icon.svg silver Gold record icon.svg gold Platinum record icon.svg platinum Sales swell
Awards for music sales
(country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Norway (IFPI) Norway (IFPI) 0! S.- 0! G- Platinum record icon.svg platinum1 40,000 ifpi.no ( Memento from November 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
United States (RIAA) United States (RIAA) 0! S.- Gold record icon.svg 4 × gold4th Platinum record icon.svg platinum1 3,000,000 riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI) United Kingdom (BPI) Silver record icon.svg 5 × silver5 Gold record icon.svg 7 × gold7th Platinum record icon.svg platinum1 1,300,000 bpi.co.uk
All in all Silver record icon.svg 5 × silver5 Gold record icon.svg 11 × gold11 Platinum record icon.svg 3 × platinum3

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  1. a b Chart sources: Charts DE Charts UK Charts US chart surfers

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