JIM REEVES songs and albums, peak chart positions, career stats, week-by-week chart runs and latest news. Jim Reeves was born James Travis Reeves on August 20, 1923 in Galloway, Texas and was an ...

If Jim Reeves were alive he’d celebrate his 100 th birthday on Aug. 20 and next year will mark the 60 th anniversary of the death of one of Country Music’s greatest legends.

Jim Reeves, center, works with Chet Atkins, right, RCA manager of Nashville operations, in the RCA studio on Oct. 19, 1962. Reeves is recording his first Christmas album for RCA Victor.

"As the fall turned, I was thinking about Dad, and how every December he'd break out the Jim Reeves Christmas album, which I think was a staple in Newfoundland households in the '70s," said Tizzard.

Between 1953 and 1984, Reeves placed 80 songs on the country music charts, including 11 No. 1's. Twenty-seven of his 80 country charts songs also scored in the pop charts.