“Girls I Have Known” by Jim Reeves - album review
features in: Album Chart of 1958 ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1950s |
I’ve always had a little soft spot for the richly baritoned one, a regular on my Nanna’s booming old gramophone player, with the LPs now having been inherited by myself. “Girls I Have Known” has the somewhat cheesy premise of being limited to titles which include girls’ names. “Marie” surprises with its’ Rock n Roll sensibility and “Goodnight Irene” is another unexpected success but, all in all, the set never thrills, and occasionally descends into the dire category.
The Jukebox Rebel
11–Aug–2008
Tracklist |
A1 | [01:59] Jim Reeves - Marie (Irving Berlin) Rock n Roll / Rockabilly |
A2 | [02:37] Jim Reeves - Mona Lisa (Jay Livingtson, Ray Evans) Crooner / Cabaret |
A3 | [02:00] Jim Reeves - My Juanita (Caroline Norton, Jim Reeves) Pop Ballad |
A4 | [02:12] Jim Reeves - Charmaine (Lew Pollack, Erno Rapee) Crooner / Cabaret |
A5 | [02:10] Jim Reeves - Margie (Con Conrad, Benny Davis, J. Russel Robinson) Pop |
A6 | [02:33] Jim Reeves - Anna Marie (Cindy Walker) Pop Ballad |
B1 | [02:05] Jim Reeves - Sweet Sue, Just You (Will J. Harris, Victor Young) Pop |
B2 | [02:16] Jim Reeves - Linda (Jack Lawrence) Crooner / Cabaret |
B3 | [02:07] Jim Reeves - Ramona (L. Wolfe Gilbert, Mabel Wayne) Pop Ballad |
B4 | [02:41] Jim Reeves - Maria Elena (Lorenzo Barcelata, Bob Russell) Pop Ballad |
B5 | [02:07] Jim Reeves - My Mary (Jimmie Davis, Stuart Hamblen) Crooner / Cabaret |
B6 | [02:52] Jim Reeves - Goodnight Irene (Huddie Ledbetter, John Lomax) Pop Ballad |