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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 July 1, 2020, 8:56 am

I came across this entry recently relating to a programme broadcast by BBC Radio 2 at Christmas 1982 -

18.00:Jim Reeves Remembered
Mrs Mary Reeves takes Wally Whyton on a tour of the Jim Reeves Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, and plays some of Jim's records.

Does anyone know anything more about this programme please? Is anyone around who might have taped it at the time?

Martin Rolls

Re: Mary Reeves

Posted by Mike Slater <iframe src='https://members3.boardhost.com/jimreeves/info/user=Mike+Slater' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 7, 2020, 3:26 am, in reply to "Mary Reeves"

Martin, I think I saw a video like this on you tube. I'm not sure if it's the exact show you mentioned, but I know I've seen something on you tube about Mary Reeves and the Jim Reeves Museum...

Re: Mary Reeves

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 July 7, 2020, 8:45 am, in reply to "Re: Mary Reeves"

Interesting stuff Mike but there's a reference to a Mary Reeves interview of 1983, so perhaps the 1982 BBC broadcast was the first she made about the museum?

Martin Rolls

Re: Mary Reeves

Posted by TONY WALL <iframe src='https://members3.boardhost.com/jimreeves/info/user=Tony+Wall' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 11, 2020, 5:22 am, in reply to "Re: Mary Reeves"

The video you saw on You Tube was made by myself and. David Bussey in 1984
She sent her driver to collect us from the airport
who promptly told us no filming at the museum.
Mary agreed to us filming after I had persuaded her that night over a meal that many people who could not travel or where to old would love to see it.And of course it would influence others to come over. She agreed as long as she presented the filming, It was a very warm day and I used a over the shoulder recorder (JVC) and camera. Later in 1989 me and David would return with a TVS film crew to make "Story of a legend" which I instigated and have all the out takes from not to mention interviews with Owen Bradley and many others.

Re: Mary Reeves

Thanks Tony. I've certainly got a copy of "Story of a Legend" it's a great production.

I wonder if the BBC Radio 2 programmes with Mary Reeves could be aired again? Apart from the Museum programme I mentioned, there's the series that I think was called 'Jim Reeves and his music'.

I feel sure if they were, or made commercially available, there would be a tremendous interest generated.

Martin Rolls

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