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Posted by Mike Slater
on September 29, 2008, 3:29 pm, in reply to ""The Essential Jim Reeves" "
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The version of "Losing Your Love" that you mention from the 16-CD box-set is the take that was released as a single, which actually does make it the original, although most fans are probably more familiar with the take that was released later on the "Distant Drums" LP a few years after Jim's death. However, there are a few songs from the Bear set that are not the original master takes- "What's In It For Me" is phrased slightly different in a few places and is not the original from the "Moonlight and Roses" LP. "(It's No)Sin" and "We Could" are also sung quite differently from the original LP versions as well. The title song from "Kimberley Jim" has a music intro that is MUCH different than the one used in the film and LP version and instead of the chorus singing the last verse of the song, Jim sings this version all the way through. Still, there are other songs on the Bear set where more than one version is featured. I like this set a lot, but the tracks were rather inconsistant in this manner throughout. I've often wondered why.
--Previous Message--
: Probably for a mistake, The version of
: "According to my heart" on the
: double anthology cd "The Essential Jim
: Reeves"(Sony-Bmg 2006), (originally
: released in 2003 under the title "Jim
: Reeves - Anthology") is not the 1956
: hit version
: (as indicated in the booklet) but the
: rejected slow version from December 1955
: session who appear for the first time
: (in Europe) in 1989 in the now deleted Bear
: Family 4 cd box set "Gentleman Jim,
: 1955-1959"(originally intended as
: the first of a series of separate Bear box
: sets with chronologically treatment of all
: Jim's discography, but, instead,
: Bear Family in 1994 prefer to issue the 16
: cd box set "Welcome to my world"
: with all Jim's studio recordings
: on one massive box set).
: If the double anthology cd "The
: Essential Jim Reeves" contain the wrong
: version of "According to my
: heart",
: the Bear 16 cd box set contain a wrong
: version of " Losing your love"
: (1961) (probably a outake from the same
: session) : on the Bear box the line "I
: forgot to kiss you and hold to your charms,
: success seems like nothing
: to these empty arms" (around min.
: 1:23) is sung more slowly and less linear
: rather than the hit version who appear
: on the double anthology cd "The
: Essential Jim Reeves".
:
: Yours sincerely to all Jim's fans all around
: the world.
:
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