There are a couple postings on YouTube of Jim Ed Brown singing tributes to Jim Reeves, at the Country Family Reunion.

I recently listened to the longer version which is 12:56 vs the shorter one of 10:15. In it there are a couple interesting points, about the little white recording boxes that were Mary Reeves "insurance policies" containing unreleased songs.

At 10:30 and 12:10 Jim Ed Brown talks about the release of "Distant Drums", and the fact that he was in possession of a couple of the "little white boxes". He states the recordings were not of the highest standard and might not be worthy of releasing.

Does anyone know if these recordings have ever seen the light of day?

Lastly at 12:42, an artist, T. Graham Brown, comments that his experience was that Jim was still very popular in Europe and still on the charts to this day.