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James Travis Reeves (August 20, 1923 – July 31, 1964) was an American country and popular music singer and songwriter. With records charting from the 1950s to the 1980s, he became well known as a practitioner of the Nashville Sound. Known as "Gentleman Jim", his songs continued to chart for years after his death in a plane crash.
Jul 13, 2023 · Photo: Bob Adams via Wikimedia Commons. The crash site was discovered two days later, on August 2, 1964, in a wooded area just east of Interstate 65. At 13:00, radio stations around America and the world announced the death of Reeves.
Jul 31, 2019 · This day in 1964: Country Music Hall of Fame member, Jim Reeves, died when his single-engine Beechcraft plane crashed near Nashville, Tennessee. Reeves and his business partner and manager Dean Manuel was flying on their way to Nashville.
Jul 4, 2022 · It was Friday, July 31, 1964, Jim Reeves and his business partner and manager Dean Manuel was flying on their way to Nashville. They were riding on a single-engine aircraft, and the country singer is at the controls.
NASHVILLE, Aug. 2 (AP) —Jim Reeves, 39 years old, the country‐music singer, and a companion were found dead in the wreckage of a private, single‐engine plane 10 miles south of here today. Mr....
This is the Jim Reeves crash scene. This picture was taken a few days after the debris was removed in early August 1964. It was at the base of this tree that the nose of the plane made contact with the ground, gouging out a crater six feet deep (in the bottom foreground).
Aug 1, 2014 · A Tribute to Country Crooner Jim Reeves on the 50th Anniversary of His Death. Jim Reeves was at the top of his game. He was moving up the charts with his latest RCA Victor single, 'I Guess I'm...
Country western singer Jim Reeves (39) flew into a brief but intense thunderstorm at 16.51 hours. A minute later the plane crashed and he was killed when he apparently lost visual reference with the ground and experienced spatial disorientation on approach to Nashville.
Jul 31, 2014 · (Friday, July 31, 1964, 4:52 p.m. local time) — Country singer-songwriter Jim Reeves, 40, and his manager, Dean Manuel, were killed today when the private plane Reeves was piloting crashed in bad weather near Nashville.
Aug 20, 2013 · On July 31, 1964 – at the height of his popularity as well as that of the Nashville sound – Reeves was piloting a single-engine aircraft that became engulfed in a violent storm.
