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Posted by Don Streeter I put in a request for this to Bucks Braun for tomorrow on the I's Have it (WBZI/WEDI/WKFI), so if you log on to myclassiccountry.com around 1030 EDT tomorrow or turn on your radio in the listening area (SW Ohio E Central Indiana, N. Kentucky, you may hear this and the songs if my request is fulfilled. GO INDIANS! Regards,
on October 14, 2007, 9:09 pm
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The Oct 15 Jim Reeves Octoberfest Studio B Trifecta: Joe and Audrey Allison's He'll Have To Go (the B Side of RCA 45 47-7643) and Johnny Russell's In a Mansion Stands My Love, the A "Plug" Side were recorded 48 years ago today on 10/15/59 between 9:30 AM and 12:30 PM at Historic RCA Studio B. Jim began the session recording He'll Have To Go first, and intentionally recorded it early in the morning, to be able to hit the low notes easier. It was released Dec 1 1959, with He'll Have To Go turning out to perhaps being one of, if not the most successful B Sides in Country Music History as it was #1 for 14 weeks in 1960 and on the charts 34 weeks, the #2 Country song chart wise in 1960 after Hank Locklin's Please Help Me I'm Falling which spent the same number of weeks at #1, but was on the charts 2 weeks longer (36 weeks). Please Help Me I'm Falling was a song Jim had been offered before Hank and he turned it down, saying "It wasn't my type of song") Sales wise however, He'll Have To Go won hands down selling over 3 Million in the US and over 4 million world wide, and the record is in the Grammy Hall of Fame as it also crossed over to the pop charts peaking at #2 for 5 weeks just behind Percy Faith's Theme From A Summer Place.
A third hit was recorded in an afternoon session that same day between 1 PM and 4 PM: Ned Miller's Snowflake, which wasn't released until the day after Christmas in 1965. It was a #2 hit for 3 weeks in the winter of 1966 spending 17 weeks on the charts a year and a half after Jim's death in the July 31, 1964 plane crash. It was RCA's back up plan to release this record around Christmas in 1959 if In A Mansion Stands My Love/He'll Have To Go were to turn out to be a dud. It was held back due to the huge success of He'll Have To Go and thus was available for Mary to release after Jim's death, one of Jim's 33 charting life insurance hits which kept Jim on the charts until 1984 and Mary in groceries until she died . Another irony to this story is that the recording sessions happened on my Mom Irene's 43rd birthday she would be 91 if she were still with us, but she died in 1999, the same year Mary Reeves did.
Don
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