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Jim Reeves discography
Studio albums44
Live albums1
Compilation albums14
Singles71
No. 1 singles13

This is a detailed discography for American country pop artist Jim Reeves.

Albums

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Album Year Chart peaks Certifications
US Country US AUS
[1]
NOR
[2]
UK
[3]
Jim Reeves Sings 1955
Singing Down the Lane 1956
Bimbo
Jim Reeves 1957
Girls I Have Known 1958 20 35
God Be with You 4 10
Songs to Warm the Heart 1959 18
According to My Heart 1960 16 1
The Intimate Jim Reeves 10 8
He'll Have to Go 18 15 16
Tall Tales and Short Tempers 1961
Talkin' to Your Heart
The Country Side of Jim Reeves 1962 8 12
A Touch of Velvet 97 8 8
We Thank Thee 12 17
Gentleman Jim 1963 2 3
The International Jim Reeves 18 5 11
Good 'n' Country 13 7 10
Twelve Songs of Christmas 15 3 3
Kimberley Jim 1964 11
Moonlight and Roses 1 30 2 2
The Best of Jim Reeves 1 9 1 3
Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? 5 8 12
Jim Reeves' Golden Records 9
The Jim Reeves Way 1965 2 45 5 16
Up Through the Years 1 10
The Best of Jim Reeves Vol. II 4 100 7
Distant Drums 1966 1 21 2 2
Yours Sincerely, Jim Reeves 3 15
Blue Side of Lonesome 1967 3 185 15
My Cathedral 39 48
A Touch of Sadness 1968 3 15
Jim Reeves on Stage 5 13
Jim Reeves—and Some Friends 1969 18 24
The Best of Jim Reeves Volume III 12
Jim Reeves Writes You a Record 1971 34 47
Something Special 13
Young & Country
My Friend 1972 18 32
Jim Reeves' Greatest 34
Missing You 9
The Best Of Jim Reeves Vol. 1 1972
Am I That Easy to Forget? 1973 11
Great Moments with Jim Reeves 32
I'd Fight the World 1974 13
Welcome to My World
The Jim Reeves Collection
The Best of Jim Reeves Sacred Songs 1975 37
Songs of Love 34
40 Golden Greats 1
  • BPI: Platinum[4]
I Love You Because 1976 24
A Legendary Performer 25
It's Nothin' to Me 1977 32
Jim Reeves 1978 50
Nashville
The Best 4 1979
Don't Let Me Cross Over 23
There's Always Me 1980 56
The Country Gentleman 1980 53
Greatest Hits (with Patsy Cline) 1981 8 79
Remembering Patsy Cline & Jim Reeves 1982 38
The Jim Reeves Medley 1983 65
The Definitive Jim Reeves 1923–1964 1992 9
Country Classics 1994
The Essential Jim Reeves 1995
The Ultimate Collection 1997 12 17
All Time Gospel Favorites 1998
Super Hits 1999
Radio Days
Greatest Hits 2000
Gentleman Jim – The Definitive Jim Reeves Collection 2003 21
Gentleman Jim – Memories Are Made of This 2004 35
The Only Jim Reeves Album You Will Ever Need 96
The Collection 2007
Welcome to My World – The Best of Jim Reeves 2009
The Very Best of Jim Reeves 7
  • BPI: Platinum[4]
The Real... The Ultimate Jim Reeves Collection 2013
"—" denotes the album failed to chart or not released

Singles

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1950s

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Year Single (A-side, B-side)
Both tracks from the same album except where indicated
Peak
positions
Album
US Country US
Cash Box Country
US
1953 "What Were You Doing (Last Night)"
b/w "Wagon Load of Love" (Non-album track)
Bimbo
"Mexican Joe"
b/w "I Could Cry" (Non-album track)
1 1 23 Jim Reeves Sings
"Butterfly Love"
b/w "Let Me Love You Just a Little" (from Bimbo)
Non-album track
1954 "Bimbo"
b/w "Gypsy Heart"
1 2 26 Bimbo
"I Love You" (with Ginny Wright)
B-side by Ginny Wright: I Want You Yes (You Want Me No) (Non-album track)
3 8 Jim Reeves and Some Friends
"Then I'll Stop Loving You"
b/w "Echo Bonita"
15 Bimbo
"Beatin' on the Ding Dong"
b/w "My Rambling Heart"
Jim Reeves Sings
"Padre of Old San Antone"
b/w "Mother Went A-Walking" (from Jim Reeves Sings)
Non-album track
1955 "Penny Candy"
b/w "I'll Follow You"
5 Jim Reeves Sings
"Where Does a Broken Heart Go?"
b/w "The Wilder Your Heart Beats the Sweeter You Love"
"Tahiti"
b/w "Give Me One More Kiss" (from Jim Reeves Sings)
The International Jim Reeves
"Drinking Tequila"
b/w "Red Eyed and Rowdy"
9 Jim Reeves Sings
"Yonder Comes a Sucker" / 4 9 The Country Side of Jim Reeves
"I'm Hurtin' Inside" flip Up Through the Years
"Are You the One" (with Alvadean Coker)
b/w "How Many?" (from Bimbo)
Jim Reeves Sings
"Hillbilly Waltz"
b/w "Let Me Remember (The Things I Can't Forget)" (Non-album track)
Young and Country
1956 "If You Were Mine"
b/w "That's a Sad Affair" (from Up Through the Years)
According To My Heart
"My Lips are Sealed"
b/w "Pickin' a Chicken" (from Just for You)
8 10 The Country Side of Jim Reeves
"According to My Heart" / 4 8 According to My Heart
"The Mother of a Honky Tonk Girl" (with Carol Johnson) flip 15 Jim Reeves and Some Friends
1957 "Am I Losing You" / 3 5 Songs to Warm the Heart
"Waitin' for a Train" flip The Country Side of Jim Reeves
"Four Walls"
b/w "I Know and You Know" (Non-album track)
1 2 12 The Best of Jim Reeves
"Two Shadows on Your Window" / 9 12 Up Through the Years
"Young Hearts" 12 15
1958 "Anna Marie"
b/w "Everywhere You Go" (from Jim Reeves)
3 7 93 Girls I Have Known
"Overnight" / 10 26 Distant Drums
"I Love You More" 8 7 He'll Have to Go
"Blue Boy" / 2 1 45 The Best of Jim Reeves
"Theme of Love" 35 He'll Have to Go
"Billy Bayou" / 1 1 95 He'll Have to Go
"I'd Like to Be" 18 13
1959 "Home" / 2 1
"If Heartache is the Fashion" 31
"Partners" / 5 3
"I'm Beginning to Forget You" 17 18
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1960s

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Year Single (A-side, B-side)
Both sides from same album except where indicated
Peak positions Album
US Country US
Cash Box Country
US US
AC
CAN Country CAN UK NOR
[2]
IRL
1960 "He'll Have to Go"[C] / 1 1 2 1
(CHUM)
12 1 He'll Have to Go
"In a Mansion Stands My Love" 28 A Touch of Sadness
"I'm Gettin' Better" / 3 2 37 6 The Intimate Jim Reeves
"I Know One" 6 7 82 6 Blue Side of Lonesome
"I Missed Me" / 3 2 44 7 Distant Drums
"Am I Losing You" (re-recording) 8 7 31 7 The Best of Jim Reeves
1961 "Whispering Hope"
b/w "I'd Like To Be" (from He'll Have To Go)
50 God Be with You
"The Blizzard" / 4 2 62 Tall Tales and Short Tempers
"Danny Boy" 38
"What Would You Do?" / 15 10 73 According to My Heart
"Stand at Your Window" 16 9
"Losing Your Love" / 2 2 89 20 Distant Drums
"(How Can I Write on Paper) What I Feel in My Heart" 7 13 92 Something Special
1962 "A Letter to My Heart" / 20 41 Distant Drums
"Adios Amigo" 2 2 90 15 2 The Best of Jim Reeves
"I'm Gonna Change Everything" / 2 1 95 42 Have I Told You Lately
That I Love You?
"Pride Goes Before a Fall" 18 31 Up Through the Years
"You're the Only Good Thing (That's Happened to Me)"
b/w "Oh, How I Miss You Tonight"
17 2 The Intimate Jim Reeves
1963 "Is This Me?" / 3 2 103 The Best of Jim Reeves Vol. II
"Missing Angel" 10 The Best of Jim Reeves Volume III
"Guilty" / 3 4 91 29 6 The International Jim Reeves
"Little Ole You" 11 11 Up Through the Years
"An Old Christmas Card"
b/w "Senor Santa Claus"
Twelve Songs of Christmas
1964 "Welcome to My World" / 2 2 102 6 3 1 A Touch of Velvet
"Good Morning Self" 43 13 Distant Drums
"Love Is No Excuse" (with Dottie West) / 7 3 115 Jim Reeves and Some Friends
"Look Who's Talking" (with Dottie West) 121
"I Guess I'm Crazy" / 1 1 82 17 1 2 The Best of Jim Reeves Vol. II
"Not Until the Next Time" 13 6 6 Distant Drums
"I Love You Because"
b/w "Anna Marie" (from Girls I Have Known)
5 1 1 Gentleman Jim
"There's a Heartache Following Me"
b/w "Diamonds in the Sand" (from Kimberley Jim)
6 3 3 Good 'N' Country
1965 "I Won't Forget You"
b/w "Highway to Nowhere" (from Singing Down the Lane)
3 6 93 15 3 1 1 The Country Side of Jim Reeves
"How Long Has it Been"
b/w "Suppertime"
45 9 God Be With You
"This World is Not My Home"
b/w "Take My Hand Precious Lord"
22 We Thank Thee
"This Is It"
b/w "There's That Smile Again" (from The Jim Reeves Way)
1 1 88 18 9 Distant Drums
"Is It Really Over?" / 1 1 79 10 17
"Rosa Rio" 3 Moonlight and Roses
"It Hurts So Much (To See You Go)"
b/w "Wishful Thinking" (from He'll Have to Go)
8 4 10 The Jim Reeves Way
1966 "Snowflake"[A]
b/w "Take My Hand Precious Lord" (from We Thank Thee)
2 1 66 2 Distant Drums
"Distant Drums" / 1 1 45 27 1 2 3
"Old Tige" 49 Talkin' To Your Heart
"Blue Side of Lonesome"
b/w "It Hurts So Much (To See You Go" (from The Jim Reeves Way)
1 1 59 15 68 Blue Side of Lonesome
1967 "I Won't Come In While He's There"
b/w "Maureen" (from The Jim Reeves Way)
1 3 112 12 7 11
"Trying to Forget" / 33
"The Storm" 16 11 The Best of Jim Reeves Volume III
"I Heard a Heart Break Last Night"
b/w "Golden Memories and Silver Tears" (from The International Jim Reeves)
9 9 1 38 The Best of Jim Reeves Vol. IV
1968 "That's When I See the Blues (In Your Pretty Brown Eyes)"
b/w "I've Lived a Lot In My Time" (from According to My Heart)
9 10 5 33 The Best of Jim Reeves Volume III
"When You Are Gone"
b/w "(How Can I Write on Paper) What I Feel in My Heart" (from Something Special)
7 7 1 A Touch of Sadness
1969 "When Two Worlds Collide"
b/w "Could I Be Falling in Love?" (from Kimberley Jim)
6 7 4 17 Jim Reeves Writes You a Record
"But You Love Me, Daddy" (with Steve Moore)
b/w "Snow Flake" (from Distant Drums)
15 Jim Reeves and Some Friends
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1970s and 1980s

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Year Single (A-side, B-side)
Both tracks from the same album except where indicated
Peak
positions
Album
US Country US
Cash Box Country
CAN Country AUS[1]
1970 "Nobody's Fool" / 10 11 4 Jim Reeves Writes You a Record
"Why Do I Love You (Melody of Love)" flip Talkin' to Your Heart
"Angels Don't Lie"
b/w "You Kept Me Awake Last Night" (from Something Special)
4 6 21 Jim Reeves Writes You a Record
1971 "Gypsy Feet"
b/w "He Will" (from My Cathedral)
16 12 14 My Friend
1972 "The Writing's on the Wall"
b/w "You're Free to Go" (from I Love You Because)
15 15 20
"Missing You"
b/w "The Tie That Binds"
8 7 13 89 Missing You
"Blue Christmas"
b/w "Snow Flake" (from The Velvet Memories of Jim Reeves)
Twelve Songs of Christmas
1973 "Am I That Easy to Forget?"
b/w "Rosa Rio"
12 10 9 Am I That Easy To Forget?
1974 "I'd Fight the World"
b/w "What's In It For Me?" (from Great Moments With Jim Reeves)
19 19 43 I'd Fight the World
1975 "You Belong to Me"
b/w "Maureen" (from The Jim Reeves Way)
54 50 Songs of Love
"You'll Never Know"
b/w "There's That Smile Again" (from It's Nothin' To Me)
71 59
1976 "I Love You Because"
b/w "Is This Me?" (from The Best of Jim Reeves Vol. II)
54 53 I Love You Because
1977 "It's Nothin' to Me"
b/w "I Won't Forget You" (from Great Moments with Jim Reeves)
14 18 It's Nothin' to Me
"Little Ole Dime"
b/w "A Letter to My Heart" (from Distant Drums)
23 27 Nashville '78
1978 "You're the Only Good Thing (That's Happened to Me)"
b/w "When You Are Gone" (from A Touch of Sadness)
29 28
1979 "Don't Let Me Cross Over" (with Deborah Allen)
b/w "I've Enjoyed As Much of This As I Can Stand"
10 7 Don't Let Me Cross Over
"Oh, How I Miss You Tonight"
b/w "The Talking Walls" (from Nashville '78)
6 8 40
1980 "Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me" (with Deborah Allen) 10 15
1981 "There's Always Me" 35 35 There's Always Me
1982 "Have You Ever Been Lonely?" (with Patsy Cline) 5 7 1 82 Greatest Hits
"I Fall to Pieces" (with Patsy Cline) 54 43 41 I Fall to Pieces
1983 "The Jim Reeves Medley" 46 43 The Jim Reeves Medley
1984 "The Image of Me" 70 59 Special Collection
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Notes

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  • 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

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  1. ^ a b Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 249. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  2. ^ a b From Distant Drums: "Discography Jim Reeves". norwegiancharts.com. Retrieved September 10, 2022.
  3. ^ "Jim Reeves | full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved December 4, 2022.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "British certifications – Jim Reeves". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved December 4, 2022. Type Jim Reeves in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
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