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.

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.

In July 1964 Jim Reeves was found dead in the wreckage of a private plane ten miles south of Nashville. He was 39. But Jim's death was far from being the end of the story.

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.