Distant Drums (A Jim Reeves Cover) By Gehan Gunasekera   Oh OK, I know it’s Christmas, but thought I’d just change the topic for a minute and upload one of my favourite Jim Reeves songs, which I hope you’ll like!! Wayne, Shobana and all you Jim Reeves fans, I hope you’ll enjoy my cover of this delightful song! “Distant Drums” is a song which provided US singer Jim Reeves with his only UK No. 1 hit – albeit posthumously in the United Kingdom in 1966, some two years after his death in a plane crash on 31 July 1964. The song remained in the UK Singles Chart for 25 weeks. The single also topped the US country chart for four weeks, becoming his most successful posthumous single. It was an unexpected achievement for a song that Reeves had recorded for its composer, Cindy Walker, under the impression it was for ...

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