This video brings a smile to my face because it shows how Jim's music spans the generations and is truly universal. The young people shown here are dancing to tracks from a VoiceMasters CD I produced, which features previously unreleased new songs and new performances by the great Jim Reeves. The video was shot by Bjorn Herlin in Sweden and shows students at a dance class.
As the video begins you hear David Cobb, the announcer on the Reeves show. Then you hear Jim himself introducing the Owen Bradley orchestra, which plays "Winter Wonderland." My favorite part of the clip is when these kids dance to Jim crooning "Yours." Just listen to how fantastic Reeves sounds! I remember a few years ago when I unearthed this number, and decided to put it on a CD. It's amazing to contemplate it is being enjoyed halfway around the world.
I am confident that if the great Jim Reeves was alive today, and had actually been there the night this video was shot, singing to the kids, he would have enjoyed himself immensely. And there is no doubt they would have loved him. But I wonder if their American counterparts would ever be caught dead listening to music like this? All I see on TV these days is "performers" who create horrible noise that passes for "music," without any artistic value or melodic appeal.
The video concludes with the dancers moving to an unusual rendition of "I Get the Blues When It Rains," also by Jim.
It all looks like so much fun and when I see things like this it makes all the hard work we went to on these CDs seem very worthwhile...
As the video begins you hear David Cobb, the announcer on the Reeves show. Then you hear Jim himself introducing the Owen Bradley orchestra, which plays "Winter Wonderland." My favorite part of the clip is when these kids dance to Jim crooning "Yours." Just listen to how fantastic Reeves sounds! I remember a few years ago when I unearthed this number, and decided to put it on a CD. It's amazing to contemplate it is being enjoyed halfway around the world.
I am confident that if the great Jim Reeves was alive today, and had actually been there the night this video was shot, singing to the kids, he would have enjoyed himself immensely. And there is no doubt they would have loved him. But I wonder if their American counterparts would ever be caught dead listening to music like this? All I see on TV these days is "performers" who create horrible noise that passes for "music," without any artistic value or melodic appeal.
The video concludes with the dancers moving to an unusual rendition of "I Get the Blues When It Rains," also by Jim.
It all looks like so much fun and when I see things like this it makes all the hard work we went to on these CDs seem very worthwhile...
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