(Quote Wikipedia)...Jim 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 quit after only
six weeks to work in the shipyards in Houston. Soon he resumed baseball,
playing in the semi-professional leagues before contracting with the St. Louis
Cardinals "farm" team during 1944 as a right-handed pitcher. He
played for the minor leagues for three years before severing his sciatic nerve
while pitching, which ended his athletic career
Reeves began to work as a radio announcer, and sang live
between songs. During the late 1940s, he was contracted with a couple of small
Texas-based recording companies, but without success. Influenced by such
Western swing-music artists as Jimmie Rodgers and Moon Mullican, as well as
popular singers Bing Crosby, Eddy Arnold and Frank Sinatra, it was not long
before 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.
(Quote )..Reeves' first successful country music songs included
"I Love You" (a duet with Ginny Wright), "Mexican Joe", and
"Bimbo" which reached Number 1 in 1954 on the U.S. Country Charts,
and other songs with both Fabor Records and Abbott Records. Abbott released his
first album in November 1955, Jim Reeves Sings (Abbott 5001), which was the
label's only album release. Earlier in 1955, he was signed to a 10-year
recording contract with RCA Victor by Steve Sholes, who produced some of
Reeves' first recordings at RCA and signed Elvis Presley for the company that
same year. Also in 1955, he joined the Grand Ole Opry[2] and made his first
appearance on ABC-TV's Ozark Jubilee, where he was a fill-in host from May–July
1958.
Have I told you lately that I love you
Have I told you there's no one else above you
Fill my heart with gladness
take away all my sadness
ease my troubles that's what you do
For the morning sun in all it's glory
greets the day with hope and comfort too
You fill my life with laughter
and somehow you make it better
ease my troubles that's what you do
There's a love that's divine
and it's yours and it's mine like the sun
And at the end of the day
we should give thanks and pray
to the one, to the one
Have I told you lately that I love you
Have I told you there's no one else above you
Fill my heart with gladness
take away all my sadness
ease my troubles that's what you do
There's a love that's divine
and it's yours and it's mine like the sun
And at the end of the day
we should give thanks and pray
to the one, to the one
And have I told you lately that I love you
Have I told you there's no one else above you
You fill my heart with gladness
take away my sadness
ease my troubles that's what you do
Take away all my sadness
fill my life with gladness
ease my troubles that's what you do
Take away all my sadness
fill my life with gladness
ease my troubles that's what you do
