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On This Day 60 Years Ago, Jim Reeves Topped the Country Charts Posthumously With a Hit First Recorded by Roy Orbison

Sixty years ago, Jim Reeves was at No. 1 in the United Kingdom with "Distant Drums" nearly two years after his death.
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On This Day in 1966, Jim Reeves Was at No. 1 With a Posthumous Hit That Blocked a Beatles Classic’s Rise to the Top

Sixty years ago today, Jim Reeves was at No. 1 on the country chart with a song that would later keep the Beatles out of the top spot.
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How Jim Reeves' 'Distant Drums' became a historic posthumous hit 60 years ago

Nearly 60 years later, the song remains one of the clearest examples of how powerful his voice and music continued to be, ...