Released in 1965, The Jim Reeves Way is a strong reminder of Reeves' classic "Nashville Sound," with the standards "Make the World Go Away" and "I Can't Stop Loving You" beside more obscure tracks like "There's That Smile Again" and "A Nickel Piece of Candy." The beautiful ballad "Maureen" is included as well. Reeves was very popular in South Africa and the rarities "Bolandse Nooientjie" and "Ek Verlang Na Jou," which are sung completely in Afrikaans, are included. It's somewhere during those two tracks that the listener, unless fluent in Afrikaans, realizes that Reeves could sing random syllables and it would still sound great.
JIM REEVES
THE JIM REEVES WAY
RCA Victor LSP-2968
January/1965
Produced by Chet Atkins & Bob Ferguson
Chet Atkins, Harold Bradley, Velma Smith - guitar
Bob Moore - bass
Willie Ackerman, Buddy Harman - drums
Jerry Smith, Bill Pursell - piano
Gene Mullins - trombone
Strings:
Brenton Banks, Cecil Brower, Lillian Hunt, Howard Carpenter, Solie Fott, Martin Katahn
Vocals:
The Anita Kerr Singers (Anita Kerr, Dolores Edgin, Louis Nunley, William Wright)
Recorded:
Jan 11/1961, RCA Victor Studio, Nashville (6)
June 4/1961, RCA Victor Studio, Nashville (12)
Feb 1/1962, RCA Victor Studio, Nashville (9)
July 23/1962, RCA Victor Studio, Nashville (5,11)
Dec 17/1963, RCA Victor Studio, Nashville (8)
July 2/1964, RCA Victor Studio, Nashville (1,2,3,4,7,10)
1.
MAKE THE WORLD GO AWAY
(Hank Cochran)
« © '63 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Do you remember when you loved me before the world took me astray
If you do then forgive me and make the world go away
(Make the world go away) and get it off my shoulders
(Say the things you used to say) please make the world go away
(Make the world go away)
[ strings ]
I'm sorry if I hurt you I'll make it up day by day
Just say you love me like you used to and make the world go away
(Make the world go away...
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2.
IN THE MISTY MOONLIGHT
(Cindy Walker)
« © '63 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
In the misty moonlight by the flickering firelight
Any place is all right long as I'm with you
In a faraway land on the trophic sea sand
If your hand's in my hand I won't be blue
Way up on the mountain way down in the valley
I know I'll be happy anyplace anywhere I don't care
In the misty moonlight by the flickering firelight
Any place is all right long as you are there
[ strings ]
I could be happy in one little room with only a table and a chair
As happy as I'd be in a kingdom by the sea darling if you were there
And I could be rich or I could be poor but if you were by my side
I could be anything in the whole wide world and I know I'd be satisfied
Way up on the mountain...
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3.
YOU'LL NEVER KNOW
(Mack Gordon - Harry Warren)
« © '56 WB Music, ASCAP »
You'll never know just how much I love you you'll never know just how much I care
And if I tried I still couldn't hide my love for you
You ought to know for heaven I told you so
A million or more times you went away and my heart went with you
I speak your name in my every prayer
If there is some other way to prove that I love you I swear I don't know how
You'll never know if you don't know now
[ strings ]
If there is some other way...
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4.
THERE'S THAT SMILE AGAIN
(Jim Reeves - Otto Davis)
« © '63 Tree Publishing, BMI »
There's that smile again the one I always see
Each time you foul and then step out on me
It's that same old smile that caused my heart to ache
Made it cry a while then finally break
I know I shouldn't care about the things you do
But when you're out somewhere I feel so blue
I only hope and pray that you'll come back and then
I'll never have to say there's that smile again
I know I shouldn't care...
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5.
BOLANDSE NOOIENJIE
(Stephen Foster - Jandrell)
« © '62 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Bolandse nooientjie stil is die nag soet sy jou ruste na lang lange dag
Saans in my drome kom ek na jou smagtend na lonkies uit oe so blou
Berge en dale kan ons nooit skei want in die droomland ontmoet jy vir my
Bolandse nooientjie stil is die nag kom in jou drome o liefste ek wag
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6.
IT HURTS SO MUCH (TO SEE YOU GO)
(Bobby Lee Warren - Billy Guitar - Jim Reeves)
« © '61 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Tonight we'll reach the hour we set for parting
We wanted to be free we both said so
But the closer to that hour the more I'm hurtin'
My heart will break it hurts so much to see you go
What happened to the love we knew where did we lose it
How can a love as sweet as ours bring heartache so
Why does it have to end this way what's there to do what can I say
When it hurts it hurts so much to see you go
[ piano ]
What happened to the love we knew...
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7.
I CAN'T STOP LOVING YOU
(Don Gibson)
« © '58 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
I can't stop loving you I've made up my mind
To live in memories of old lonesome times
I can't stop wanting you it's useless to say
So I'll just live my life in dreams of yesterday
Those happy hours that we once knew
Though long ago still make me blue
They say that time heals a broken heart
But time has stood still since we've been apart
I can't stop loving you...
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8.
NICKEL PIECE OF CANDY
(Alex Zanetis)
« © '63 Jack O Diamonds Publications, BMI / Tree Publishing, BMI »
When you were a little girl and lived across the street
We would walk to the candy store and I would always treat
Little big hearted candy boy the candy man would say
When I bought you candy bars to steal your heart away
Just a nickel piece of candy used to make your dreams come true
You'd hold my hand and tell me someday I'll love you
Through the years of growing up I thought your love grew too
Till your heart longed for the things I couldn't buy for you
Slowly I could feel your love begin to fade and die
Then you found another much wealthier than I
Just a nickel piece of candy...
Little girl with golden curles and eyes for diamond rings
You grew up and soon forgot so many simple things
But I wonder if you're happy now cause when you pass me by
I think I see a teardrop in the corner of your eye
Just a nickel piece of candy...
Someday I'll love you
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9.
WHERE DO I GO TO THROW A PICTURE AWAY
(Carl Belew - W.S. Stevenson - Jim Reeves)
« © '63 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
I'm kissin' your picture goodbye and I hate to treat it this way
But you said to forget all that reminds me of you
So I must throw your picture away I must throw your picture away
How can I just cast aside a love that's in my heart to stay
Where do I go to throw a picture away where do I go to throw a picture away
[ piano ]
I know I won't forget all that reminds me of you
When I can look at your picture each day
It's a paper impression a most prized possession
Where do I go to throw a picture away where do I go to throw a picture away
How can I just cast aside...
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10.
MAUREEN
(Cindy Walker)
« © '63 Tree Publishing, BMI »
All alone tonight I dream in my land of an island for across the sea
A little bit of heaven they call Ireland where an angel waits for me
Maureen Maureen my heart is still with pain
To be with you and to hold you in my arms again
In all my dreams I dream of you Maureen
And the misty moonlit meadows and the hills of green
The hills that heard us whisper the secrets of our heart
The hills that heard us promise that we would never part
Maureen Maureen someday white sails will gleam
And you'll know I'm back to stay for evermore Maureen
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11.
EK VERLANG NA JOU
(Gilbert Gibson)
« © '62 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Ja ek verlang na jou my liefling en ek droom van jou oe so blou
Ja ek dink net aan jou my liefling en my hart is'n mantel van rou
Toe jy my verlaat het is my wereld verskeur
Die son het ophou skyn en die maan het verkleur
Ja kom nou terug na my my liefling ek verlang na my liefling vanaand
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12.
SOMEWHERE ALONG THE LINE
(Jimmy Tipton - Jim Reeves)
« © '61 Unichappell Music, BMI »
Somewhere along the line I lost my love for you
I can't explain just why I feel the way I do
I only want to know what made my love grow cold
What made me change my mind somewhere along the line
The happiness I've known no longer lives with me
I hold a passion more the yearning to be free
Whatever caused the change has left this mark so strange
My eyes for love went blind somewhere along the line
Well it might have been the night you tossed your wedding rings away
And it could have been the many little things I meant to say
A mystery I know I can't define for I lost my love for you somewhere along the line
Somewhere along the line
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