COUNTRY CLASSIC Hell Have To Go - Jim Reeves One of the saddest songs ever penned, Hell Have to Go became a signature ballad for the man they called Gentleman Jim Reeves.....Reeves (1923-64) had the vocal ease of Bing Crosby but with less of the Crosbys lower register scuff: if Bing was brown, Jim was tan. And there was something about his slow aching honesty that made him the perfect voice for songs about a man in love whose wife/girlfriend has left/is unfaithful or just plain undeserving of his attentions.....Reeves was a country singer ..so understood the value of sentimentality,..and his short career -- dead in a plane crash at 40 -- robbed the world of someone more than just an MOR ballad singer..... Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone, and lets pretend were all alone. Ill tell the man to turn the jukebox way down low . . . and you can tell your friend there with you, hell have to go. youtu.be/Smlaq1ezQRM ...
Posted on: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 04:00:01 +0000