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Could you please name the song and singer?
The lyrics are we both reached for heaven but ours weren't the same?
5 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Sounds like "When Two Worlds Collide" by Jim Reeves.
- 1 decade ago
It's - When Two Worlds Collide by Jim Reeves
You can listen to it here:
- SawmillLv 71 decade ago
"When Two Worlds Collide" by Dottie West\
Jim Reeves, Faron Young, Roger Miller and Bill Anderson.
Sorry I couldn't pick just one artist.
Edited:: oh and George Jones..
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- 1 decade ago
When Two Worlds Collide" by Jim Reeves
Reeves was born in Galloway, Texas, a small rural community near Carthage. Winning an athletic scholarship to the University of Texas, he enrolled to study speech and drama, but dropped out after six weeks to work at the shipyards in Houston. Soon he returned to baseball, playing in the semiprofessional leagues before signing with the St. Louis Cardinals farm team in 1944 as a right-handed pitcher. He stayed with the team for three years before seriously injuring his ankle and ending his athletic career.
Reeves began to work as a DJ, and sang live between songs. In the late 1940s, he was signed to a couple of small Texas-based record labels, but with no success. Influenced by such Western swing artists as Jimmie Rodgers and Moon Mullican, as well as popular crooners Bing Crosby, Eddy Arnold and Frank Sinatra, it was not long before he got a foothold in the music industry. He was a member of Moon Mullican's band and made some early Mullican-style recordings like "Each Beat of my Heart" and "My Heart's Like a Welcome Mat" from the late 1940s to the early 1950s.
He eventually landed a job as an announcer on KWKH-AM in Shreveport, Louisiana, home to the popular Louisiana Hayride. His musical break came when Singer Sleepy LaBeef was late for a performance on the Hayride, according to former Hayride emcee Frank Page, and Reeves was asked to fill in. (Other accounts—including Reeves himself, in an interview on the RCA album Yours Sincerely—name Hank Williams as the absentee.)
[edit] Initial success in the 1950s
Reeves' first country hits included "I Love You Because" (a duet with Ginny Wright), "Mexican Joe," "Bimbo" and other songs on both Fabor Records and Abbott Records. Eventually he tired of the novelty bracket he had been forced into, and left for RCA Victor. In 1955, Reeves was signed to a 10-year recording contract by Stephen H. Sholes, who produced some of Reeves' first recordings at RCA and signed Elvis Presley for the label that same year.
In his earliest RCA recordings, Reeves was still singing in the loud style of his first recordings, considered standard for country-western performers at that time. He softened his volume, using a lower pitch and singing with lips nearly touching the microphone, but ran into some resistance at RCA; until in 1957, with the support of his producer Chet Atkins, he used this style on his version of a demo song of lost love, written from a woman's perspective (and intended for a female singer). "Four Walls" not only took top position on the country charts, but went to number eleven on the popular charts. Reeves had not only opened the door to wider acceptance for other country singers, but also helped usher in a new style of country music, using violins and lusher background arrangements soon called the Nashville Sound.
Reeves became known as a crooner because of his warm, velvety voice. His songs were remarkable for their simple elegance highlighted by his rich light baritone. Songs such as "Adios Amigo," "Welcome To My World," and "Am I Losing You" demonstrated this approach. His Christmas songs have been perennial favorites, including "Silver Bells," "Blue Christmas" and "An Old Christmas Card."
[edit] Early 1960s and international fame
Reeves scored his greatest hit with the Joe Allison composition "He'll Have to Go," a huge hit on both the pop and country music charts, which earned him a platinum record. Released in late 1959, it reached number one on Billboard's Hot C&W Sides chart on February 8, 1960, where it stayed for 14 consecutive weeks. Country music historian Bill Malone noted that while it was in many ways a conventional country song, its arrangement and the vocal chorus "put this recording in the country pop vein." In addition, Malone lauded Reeves' vocal styling - lowered to "its natural resonant level" to project the "caressing style that became famous" - as why "many people refer to him as the singer with the velvet touch."[1]
Reeves' international popularity during the 1960s, however, at times surpassed his standing in the United States.
[edit] South Africa
In the early 1960s, Reeves was more popular than Elvis Presley in South Africa and recorded several albums in Afrikaans. In 1963, he toured and starred in a South African film, Kimberley Jim. The film was released with a special prologue and epilogue in South African cinemas after Reeves' passing, praising him as a true friend of the country. The film was produced, directed and written by Emil Nofal. Reeves was particularly popular among the Zulu population in South Africa, and was known by the monikers King Jim and (because of his 6'1" frame) Big Jim.
[edit] United Kingdom
Reeves toured England and Ireland in 1963 between his tours of South Africa and Europe. Reeves and The Blue Boys were in Ireland from May 30 to June 19, 1963; with a tour of US military bases from June 10 to June 15, when they returned to Ireland. The