Jim Reeves Trivia

1. Complete the title : "Distant...."

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Answer: Drums

"Distant Drums" was a big hit for Jim Reeves. It throws up the age-old question of whether you should marry your sweet-heart before you go off to battle or whether you should wait until you are safely home. Some people connected this song with the war in Vietnam. We never do learn if Mary said, "Yes."

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Answer: world

"Waltzing on top of the world" is also the title of the song. This sounds like an early country-style song rather than the smooth Nashville sound that emerged later. It celebrates happiness and love and how it comes with the first recognition of true love.

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Answer: Nowhere

It's all about that frustration of trying to make an impression on the girl that you love. He compares it to getting lost on the highway and the song brings in the idea of a "detour" and ending up back where he started.

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Answer: why

It's all about the inexplicable nature of love. No matter how badly he is treated by the woman, he will go on loving her. In spite of her "schemes and lies" he will still be there. He just can't help himself or explain why he loves her. So the title "Don't Ask Me Why" fits very well.

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Answer: Go

This has the interesting idea of the song being sung down a telephone line. Jim refers to the girl's date as "your friend" but you can sense the controlled antagonism in his voice. A reply to this song was composed soon after - for a female artist to sing. Poor Jim wasn't going to get the girl.

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Answer: snow

"And I'll Stop Loving You." He lists all the impossible things he can think of. There are no daisies in the desert and there are no roses in the snow. It's just as impossible for him to stop loving her. There are other songs which use similar titles, such as those by Ray Charles and Roy Orbison, but the lyrics and tunes are different.

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Answer: Marie

"Anna Marie. Anna Marie. My heart remembers and sighs." Part of this lyric is actually sung in French. Jim also attempted "Beautiful Dreamer" sung in Afrikaans ! The voice was always just as good.

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Answer: king

"From a Jack to a King" is again the title of this song. Life and love are compared to a card game in this song recorded by Jim and many others. He plays "an ace" because he is encouraged by the "twinkle" in her eyes.

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Answer: Amigo

You can sense the whole story behind this song from just the short lyric. Two men have fallen for the same girl. Jim plays the part of the one who loses out. He can still part with his friend on good terms. He asks him to name one of the boys after him. He will ride far away and try to forget.

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Answer: yesterday

"I Can't Stop Loving You..." - another standard recorded by many artists like Roy Orbison. It's another one where Jim puts across the pain of being unable to forget. He has to live in dreams of yesterday.

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Answer: Joe

Mexican Joe seems to have the best of everything. "He's got more fun than anybody's had." "But when he wants a kiss all he's got to do is say so." Lucky man. The bit about them trying to collect from him when they win always makes me want to smile. "They don't know where he is."

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Answer: divine

"That's What I Desire" is the song in which this lyric occurs. Is he in the middle of a relationship or is he just remembering what it used to be like?

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Answer: Me

Someone else is in his place at his girlfriend's house. There's someone else kissing her beneath the porch light. He's torturing himself by thinking about what he used to do. Now there's a different car in the drive and someone else walking out on the lawn.

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Answer: Algiers

"You Belong to Me" was also recorded by Patsy Cline. She too sang about flying the ocean "in a silver plane". There are also "the Pyramids along the Nile" and "the jungle when it's wet with rain".

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Answer: Love Letters

He's burning the old love letters that she wrote to him some time before. The first letter is always the sweetest and the last is always the heart-breaker. It's another song where the memory of love is sweet but the sense of loss is deeper. All the letters, like their love, are going to go up in smoke.

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Answer: the next time

Poor Jim is being betrayed once more. He hides her picture, he puts away the records they listened to together, but nothing does any good. He will always give her another chance. "Until the Next Time" is a good title for this endless circle of events.

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Answer: World

It's in this song that he talks about how every day is "blue Monday". They have been parted for a while but he still hasn't recovered. He has no plans for the future. His only hope is that she might be "burning and yearning" now that they are apart.

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Answer: heaven

The song "When Two Worlds Collide" suggests that, though they love each other, they come from different backgrounds. He has just realised that their love is doomed. He still regards her as belonging to a world which is "sweet and good".

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Answer: Heartache

This once again reflects the feeling of being trapped by the love that is over for her but not for him. He's never really "free". He can tell lies to his friends about how he feels but the heartache is always there.

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Answer: muchacho

"Adios Amigo" is about the parting of two friends who have fallen in love with the same girl. Jim sings the part of the one who is resigned to being the loser.

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Answer: you

This is the ultimate song of happiness- "I Love You Because." He lists all the reasons why she makes him happy. In the face of all that the world can say about him, her love will always "see him through".

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Answer: unfurled

"Welcome to My World". Perhaps it is sung to a particular woman, but perhaps it is for all those who like to share in his style of music.

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Answer: the only love I ever knew

"I'll forget many things in my lifetime but, darling, I won't forget you." She will be "the only love I ever knew" for Jim. It's somehow inevitable but it's deeply rewarding. "I Won't Forget You" is the title of several other country songs, including a different one sung by Patsy Cline.

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Answer: parting

It hurts so much to see her go. He can't understand why this parting has to take place. He just knows that the love they knew has somehow disappeared. There's nothing left to say. "It Hurts So Much to See You Go" is a typical Jim Reeves ballad.

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Answer: my chair

"I Won't Come in While He's There" is the title of the song. Everything has changed - someone else is in his place. Now Jim sings the part of the man about to leave town. He can't even bear to ring the doorbell in order to say goodbye.

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Answer: detour

This clever lyric about the "Highway to Nowhere" records the sadness and frustration of the man who just can't find his way to the heart of the woman that he loves. He ends the song where he began "back where he started".

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Answer: now

"Have I Told You Lately I Love You..." is another song recorded by many artists. He is determined to say the words that are often left unsaid because we take people for granted.

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Answer: last dime

"I've Lived a Lot in My Time." This is another real country-sounding song rather than "smooth Nashville". There is a strong religious theme to the experiences that he is describing.

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Answer: sweetheart

"If Heartache is the Fashion" is a very sad song. He's lost her and it has totally destroyed his confidence and now he won't even dare to go out. When he thinks of her lips on someone else's it causes him deep pain.

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Answer: Monday

"How's the World Treating You?" He thinks about her constantly. He tells of how terrible he feels, but he also asks how she feels. He wants to know if there's still any hope but really his tone tells you that there isn't.

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