Singing Down the Lane
Singing Down the Lane | ||||
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Studio album by Jim Reeves | ||||
Released | 1956 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Label | RCA Victor | |||
Jim Reeves chronology | ||||
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Singing Down the Lane is an album recorded by country music singer Jim Reeves. Released in June 1956,[1] it was his first album for RCA Victor.[2][3]
History
In November 1957, Billboard magazine reported on its annual poll of country music disc jockeys. Singing Down the Lane ranked No. 10 among the "Favorite C&W Albums" of the preceding year.[4]
The liner notes on the album's back cover summed up the album: "There are no slow, strained moments in the long-playing tracks of this album. The title of the album was the keynote . . and the barometer was reading 'Spring' . . . and the handsome fellow from Texas was striding down the lane with an even dozen of his best vocals."[2]
Reeves' biographer Larry Jordan criticized the record company for the album's weak packaging—a black-and-white photograph of Reeves that had been "tinted a garish green" and that showed him "wearing a toupee that looked like some sort of an animal ready to leap off his head."[3] Jordan also criticized Reeves' "full bore" and unrestrained delivery on several tracks, lacking the subtlety and mellowness that marked his later RCA Victor recordings.[3]
The Juke Box Rebel ranked it No. 13 among the albums released in 1956.[5]
Track listing
Side A
- "Roly Poly"
- "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?"
- "Breeze (Blow My Baby Back to Me)"
- "Waltzing on Top of the World"
- "Oklahoma Hills" (Guthrie)
- "Love Me a Little Bit More"
Side B
- "Tweedle O'Twill"
- "Each Time You Leave"
- "Ichabod Crane"
- "Your Old Love Letters"
- "Beyond the Shadow of a Doubt"
- "Highway to Nowhere"
[2][6]
References
- ^ "Folk Talent & Tunes". The Billboard. June 23, 1956. p. 56.
- ^ a b c "Liner notes to album". RCA Victor. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
- ^ a b c Larry Jordan (2011). Jim Reeves: His Untold Story. Page Turner Books. p. 177. ISBN 9780615524306.
- ^ "Favorite C&W Albums". The Billboard. November 11, 1957. p. 112.
- ^ "Album Chart of 1956". The Jukebox Rebel. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
- ^ "Jim Reeves – Singing Down The Lane". Discogs. December 16, 2020.
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- Jim Reeves Sings (1955)
- Singing Down the Lane (1956)
- Bimbo (1957)
- Jim Reeves (1957)
- Girls I Have Known (1958)
- God Be with You (1959)
- Songs to Warm the Heart (1959)
- According to My Heart (1960)
- The Intimate Jim Reeves (1960)
- He'll Have to Go (1960)
- Tall Tales and Short Tempers (1961)
- Talkin' to Your Heart (1961)
- The Country Side of Jim Reeves (1962)
- A Touch of Velvet (1962)
- We Thank Thee (1962)
- Gentleman Jim (1963)
- The International Jim Reeves (1963)
- Good 'n' Country (1963)
- Twelve Songs of Christmas (1963)
- Kimberley Jim (1964)
- Moonlight and Roses (1964)
- The Jim Reeves Way (1965)
- Yours Sincerely, Jim Reeves (1966)
- Blue Side of Lonesome (1967)
- My Cathedral (1967)
- A Touch of Sadness (1968)
- Jim Reeves—and Some Friends (1969)
- Jim Reeves Writes You a Record (1971)
- Jim Reeves on Stage (1968)
- The Best of Jim Reeves (1964)
- Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? (1964)
- Up Through the Years (1965)
- The Best of Jim Reeves Vol. II (1965)
- The Best of Jim Reeves Volume III (1969)
- Something Special (1971)
- 40 Golden Greats (1975)
- Remembering Patsy Cline & Jim Reeves (1982)
- "Mexican Joe"
- "Bimbo"
- "I Love You"
- "Am I Losing You"
- "Yonder Comes a Sucker"
- "Four Walls"
- "Anna Marie"
- "Blue Boy"
- "Billy Bayou"
- "He'll Have to Go"
- "The Blizzard"
- "Stand at Your Window"
- "Adios Amigo"
- "Welcome to My World"
- "Love Is No Excuse"
- "I Guess I'm Crazy"
- "I Love You Because"
- "I Won't Forget You"
- "This Is It"
- "Is It Really Over?"
- "Distant Drums"
- "Blue Side of Lonesome"
- "I Won't Come In While He's There"
- "When You Are Gone"
- "Missing You"
- "Am I That Easy to Forget"
- "Don't Let Me Cross Over"
- "Have You Ever Been Lonely?"