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Posted by Garry Herring
on October 11, 2008, 6:01 pm
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Hi everyone,
first of all, I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who answered my posts over the last few months, and special greetings to all the other Jim Reeves fans out there.
Right, there was one thing that I was wondering about, and that is: in all of the articles and biographies that I have read on Jim Reeves over the years, i have never seen any that tell of Jim ever crossing paths with Roger Miller, the writer of several of Jim's hits. I mean, where Roger's songs 'sent' to Jim? or where they good friends that met from time to time? I know that Roger arrived in Nasville sometime around the late fifties/early sixties.
Roger was a fantastic guy, very funny and wrote some real gems. I think him and Jim would have got on famously, as Jim had a great sense of humour too.
I was listening to Roger singing his 1982 hit "Old Friends" the other day, and on the song he is joind by Willie Nelson and Ray Price.
I really recommend that If you have not yet heard this song then please try to get a copy. It is fabulous. Who knows, if Jim had lived then I am pretty sure that he would have joined these three on this recording as it is a song that would have suited Jim's style.
kindest regards
GARRY
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