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Jim & Hank Locklin

Posted by David MacBeth <iframe src='https://members3.boardhost.com/jimreeves/info/user=David+MacBeth' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on February 1, 2014, 2:45 pm

Today I read something unusual,and that is,Jim and Hank Locklin performed each others shows,down to the jokes they told,Is there any chance of there being any recordings of these shows,somehow I doubt it,RCA seemed to be very short-sighted back then.

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Posted by Larry Jordan <iframe src='https://members3.boardhost.com/jimreeves/info/user=Larry+Jordan' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on February 1, 2014, 4:17 pm, in reply to "Jim & Hank Locklin"

Once on the 1957 USO tour, in a German club, Hank got up and sang all of Jim's songs, and when it was Jim's turn to perform, he did Hank's as a joke on each other.

The 1957 tour was a disaster with Jim's manager, Herb Shucher, trying to improvise solutions as they went along. I describe in detail what went wrong in my book, "Jim Reeves: His Untold Story."

The GOOD thing that happened, however, is that while Jim was overseas "Four Walls" was released and became a big hit in his absence.

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Posted by Ron McBride <iframe src='https://members3.boardhost.com/jimreeves/info/user=Ron+McBride' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on February 2, 2014, 8:19 am, in reply to "Jim & Hank Locklin"

It was on this trip as well, that Jim and Hank wrote a song together - "For Just A Little While Tonight". It has long been rumored there is a tape of them performing this song, but so far, it hasn't turned up. I remember seeing an interview with Joyce, that was filmed in England, where at first she contradicted Mary and then agreed with Mary once she was told Mary's view, concerning the existence of a tape of this song. So is there one? Who knows.

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Posted by David MacBeth <iframe src='https://members3.boardhost.com/jimreeves/info/user=David+MacBeth' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on February 2, 2014, 1:53 pm, in reply to "Re: Jim & Hank Locklin"

It also seems strange to me that Jims' version of 'Four Walls' peaked at 1 on the US Country charts for 8weeks,spending a total of 28 weeks on the chart,on the Billboard Pop charts it got to #11 and was on the chart for 14weeks,and yet,it didn't bother the chart compilers here at all.

Re: Jim & Hank Locklin

Hank Locklin said he and Jim wrote that song on the long plane ride home. Giving rise to speculation about a duet of them singing it is an RCA recording sheet of studio time that lists both their names. But as you say, no master of this recording has ever surfaced.

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Posted by Martin Rolls <iframe src='https://members3.boardhost.com/jimreeves/info/user=Martin+Rolls' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on February 4, 2014, 3:23 am, in reply to "Re: Jim & Hank Locklin"

"For Just A Little While Tonight".

If anyone reading these messages is curious about this song, having not heard it, then I can highly recommend a version by Paul Wheater on his CD 'To My Loved Ones'

Paul's website can easily be found on google and the CD is really beautiful, featuring a number of lovely songs Jim might have recorded.

Re: Jim & Hank Locklin

I've not heard Paul Wheater but I can recommend a version by Joe Rucker AND Hank Locklin.

Re: Jim & Hank Locklin

I interviewed Joe for my book, who recalled Hank telling him the story about how he and Reeves wrote the song on the plane coming back from the 1957 USO tour. Joe's version with Mr. Locklin was recorded only a short time before Hank passed away.

You can hear a sample of it on iTunes and better yet -- download it!

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