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Posted by Larry Jordan
on June 25, 2009, 8:08 am, in reply to "On this date in 1957"
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There are people in the UK who could offer more insight into this matter than I, except I would point out that Jim's recordings were released worldwide by various RCA licensees and foreign offices, some of whom packaged the material on the basis of their own marketing strategies and timetables. In England, Pat Campbell of Decca (the RCA licensee there), had great success choosing fairly obscure album cuts (eg., "I Won't Forget You") and putting them out as singles. Jim was initially angered by this until he saw the chart success. He and Pat became close friends.
Not all Reeves fans are the same, and their various cultures influence their likes and dislikes.
One other factor is that Jim got sort of a late start in the UK, and so there was a lot more material available on him here in the U.S. than there was over in England. Naturally, label execs wanted to maximize sell-through, and not flood the market. So some of Jim's material was kept in abeyance.
On the other hand, sometimes foreign fans got to hear music by Jim before we did. An example is Jim's Christmas album, which was recorded in the Fall of 1962, and then released yet that year in South Africa. U.S. fans had to wait until the Autumn of 1963 before the LP was released in this country.
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