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Reeves arrived in California around February 2005 and met with Blue to begin recording songs. Shortly after arriving, Blue introduced Reeves to a young female singer he was working with, Colbie Caillat. Caillat and Reeves formed a quick friendship and Caillat's family invited Reeves to stay with them during his recordings with Blue. This eventually became Reeve's home as he decided to stay in California and not return to Iowa.[12][15]
Caillat and Reeves began a working partnership, hanging out and co-writing many songs together and playing local venues.[22] Caillat also introduced Reeves to the social networking site Myspace, using the site to release music they wrote. After the release of the Blue-produced EP Hearts Are Magnets in 2006, Caillat and Reeves kept composing and posting songs to Myspace. They wrote Chasing The Sun for Hilary Duff.
Caillat's career first gained traction and attention on Myspace, leading her to be declared the No. 1 unsigned artist on the site.[23] The popularity of the Myspace-hosted song "Bubbly" led to a record deal for Caillat with Universal Republic Records.[19] Using the material that Caillat had worked on with Reeves, Caillat released her debut album Coco in 2007. The Mikal Blue-produced album featured ten songs co-written by Reeves.[18][21] The lead single from the album, the Reeve's co-write "Bubbly", was a commercial success, reaching up to the top 5 on the Billboard charts.[24] The song "Realize", which featured vocals by Reeves, also performed well on the charts. Reeves and Caillat won three ASCAP awards for these two songs.
Reeves also continues to work as a co-writer, writing songs for such artists as Lenka,[15][26] Angel Taylor, Demi Lovato, The JaneDear Girls and the Japanese group Kimaguren. The song "The Show" that Reeves co-wrote with artist Lenka did well, being used in advertisements for Old Navy[33] and Ugly Betty.[34] "The Show" was also featured in the films Moneyball and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging.[citation needed]
Reeves released his new full-length album called Songs Are Silent Films on June 12, later than expected, on all digital retailers. He again worked with Nashville Producer, Adam Smith, on many of the tracks. Through pledgemusic.com, Jason asked fans to pledge to support the production of his new album, after being dropped by the Major Label. Pledgers get access to updates about the album as well as some of the songs to be released on the album.
The last song Elvis ever recorded was by Jim Reeves(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle []).push();Posted by Larry Jordan on May 24, 2015, 11:53 am
I don't know how many of you are aware of it or not, but the last song Elvis Presley ever recorded was Jim Reeves' 3 million-selling signature song, "He'll Have To Go." The two men had known each other since back in the "Louisiana Hayride" days, and as I report in my 672-page book, "Jim Reeves: His Untold Story," the night that Elvis became an official member of the "Hayride," he asked Jim to literally push him out on stage, because he was so afraid. (See photo above).
Elvis and Jim remained friends the rest of Jim's life, often exchanged telegrams of support and encouragement, Christmas cards, corresponded, and helped each other. As I also report in my book, Col. Tom Parker tried to sign Jim before he secured a management contract with Elvis Presley, but Jim decided not to go with Parker, based largely on Mary's advice. She was sure the two men would not get along. (I believe she was right). But Parker lived near Jim and Mary in Madison and they all remained friends.
When Presley came back from the service in 1960, there was so much hoopla (he had traveled across the country from the east coast by train and countless thousands of fans had lined the tracks to see him), that RCA was worried about their ability to get him into the studio in Nashville. Yet they were desperate to have him record more material.
To help Elvis out, Col. Tom Parker asked their friend Jim Reeves if he would book a recording session under his own name, and Jim readily agreed to do so. The musicians were none the wiser as they assembled on the night of March 20, 1960. But Jim never showed up, and it was uncharacteristic for him to be late (for a session that is; he and Mary ran chronically late for other appointments). Suddenly, the studio door opened and in walked Elvis! Mr. Presley later wrote Jim a wonderful message thanking him for his help and modestly saying he was humbled that a star of Jim's stature would help him!
I released 3 songs from the March 21-22 recordings on a new CD I produced for Elvis's 80th birthday anniversary in January, that has far exceeded expectations and become one of the best-selling CDs I've ever done. It's called "Elvis: The New Recordings."
The songs are "Soldier Boy" (to which I added a couple of jazzy saxophones that have transformed this song and caused Lee Dawson of "Elvis Express Radio" to say he LOVES the new treatment whereas before, he didn't care for the song). Also "Fame and Fortune" and "Stuck On You."
Fans young and old are praising the new CD because we brought Elvis' voice forward, subdued or got rid of extraneous original instrumental and/or vocal backings, and then added new music to make these songs sound fresh and new.
You can hear samples and order the new Elvis CD at: -music-store.myshopify.com/products/elvis-the-new-recordings
By 1976, Elvis had lost interest in recording (though he was still making personal appearances). So RCA was forced to take their mobile recording equipment to Graceland, Elvis' home in Memphis, Tennessee. On two successive nights, Presley recorded some rough vocals, which his producer Felton Jarvis later overdubbed with mixed success. (Many fans HATE the Jarvis overdubs). The first night, the session was interrupted by the sound of a dog barking and a telephone ringing, and Elvis was in good humor and can be heard laughing about that on the master tape.
But as fate would have it, on February 3, 1976, Elvis walked down to the "Jungle Room" from his bedroom upstairs. The last song he ever recorded was "He'll Have To Go."
Most artists who have attempted to cover this song have fallen far short of Jim's version. But I have to say Elvis did a good job. And this at a point when he was suffering from various health woes and was said to have declined as a singer. I don't think there is anything in his performance of this song that is anything less than good!
I thought you might like to hear a real bluesy version of Jim's famous song, which I really like, as sung by "The King" of rock 'n' roll. I think the treatment works well, though it is a completely different approach than what Reeves took. Both men were great artists and "true originals" -- hence stylists in their own right. They could take a song and put their own stamp on it, and make it their own.
Click the link below to hear Elvis sing Jim, but also be sure to click the link above and listen to a medley of some fresh new overdubs I did on Elvis tracks that feature current members of the Grand Ole Opry band, musicians from Atlanta's jazz scene, and even from Europe. I think you're going to want to order a copy as fans have been effusive in their praise and XM/Sirius satellite radio, I am told, has even been playing selections from the CD frequently on their Elvis-only channel...
Link: Elvis "He'll Have To Go"
There was a lot of sadness to go around for songs about walls, of all things, during Reeves' prime. For those of us who grew up in church, does this weeper not sound like an invitational hymn with secular lyrics?
Be sure you add these Jim Reeves songs to your classic country playlist along with "Adios Amigo," "Is It Really Over," "There's A Heartache Following Me," "Where Does A Broken Heart Go," "Drinking Tequila," and "I Guess I'm Crazy."
Has there ever been a warmer voice than that wielded by Gentleman Jim Reeves? That light, warm baritone helped change the face of country music, helping to usher in The Nashville Sound with a series of albums and singles produced by Chet Atkins. He is without a doubt the greatest country crooner of all time'and of all his releases (and there are a lot of them'the Bear Family label's collection of complete commercial recordings spanned 16 CDs!), his 1963 holiday album 12 Songs of Christmas just might be his most enduring. Now, this record'which features such holiday evergreens as 'An Old Christmas Card' and 'C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S''has never gone out of print in the CD era, or any other era, for that matter; but the CD that is currently available is a full 20 years old, and, to be kind, the sound on that release is showing its age. So, we have given it a fresh remastering by Vic Anesini at Sony's Battery Studios, and added two holiday-themed songs ('Snowflake' and 'Scarlet Ribbons') to this Expanded Edition to make it, er, '14 Songs of Christmas!' Steve Harmon contributes brand-new liner notes to accompany vintage photos. A Christmas classic, sounding bigger, better, and even warmer than before!
And was it at this point that you started recording?
Yeah, so a friend of mine who I was working with on the soap had another friend who worked this record company called Zoo Records. She kept coming to the shows and somehow convinced her boss to sign us to a record deal. Which was fantastic. So we made a record. We kind of weren't really ready, we were still really green. This guy, from the band, Brett Domrose was writing some pretty interesting lyrics and storied songs - which actually sound better now then they did then. You can find all our stuff on iTunes. We got to work with some amazing people over time, like Rich Parashar who did the Pearl Jam Ten record. We recorded everything analogue, no pro tools, straight to tape.
Why did Dogstar break up?
So we had ended up doing a bunch of tours: we did the United States, Australia, New Zealand; we did Europe twice and Japan 5 times. Then the record starting doing pretty good and people started to know the words and songs. But then, just when it was turning a corner, I met this girl and I wanted to do different music.