The Jukebox Rebel

Reeves goes Elvis… sort of. This was the soundtrack to the first and only movie that he made, interesting if a bit corny. Shot in South Africa in 1963, the story tells of a ramblin', gamblin', guitar-strummin' man from Dixie, trying to strike it rich in the Kimberley Diamond region. The movie and the soundtrack were released after he died in a plane crash in 1964 and, although it was rushed into the booming South African movie theatres in 1964, the film was never shown in the States. On the sountrack album, Jim falls deep into cabaret-crooner territory for most of the duration, and the set even comes complete with breaks for orchestras and showtime choruses. The only track that's not completely dire is the one which flirts with country themes, “Roving Gambler”, but by then I'm too disillusioned to care.

The Jukebox Rebel
26–Feb–2010

A1	[02:02] Jim Reeves - Kimberley Jim (Gilbert Gibson) Crooner / Cabaret
A2	[01:52] Jim Reeves - Strike It Rich (Anton De Waal, Nico Carstens) Crooner / Cabaret
A3	[02:20] Jim Reeves - I Grew Up (H.R. Friedman) Crooner / Cabaret
A4	[02:25] Madeleine Usher - My Life Is A Gypsy (Brian Buggy) Crooner / Cabaret
A5	[01:25] Jim Reeves - Born To Be Lucky (Taffy Kikillus) Crooner / Cabaret
A6	[02:16] Orchestra and Chorus - Old Fashioned Rag (H.R. Friedman) Crooner / Cabaret
A7	[02:45] Jim Reeves - Could I Be Falling In Love (Alex Zanetis) Pop Ballad
B1	[01:48] Jim Reeves - Diamonds In The Sand (Taffy Kikillus, Gilbert Gibson) Pop Ballad
B2	[01:57] Jim Reeves - A Stranger’s Just A Friend (Gilbert Gibson, Jim Reeves) Crooner / Cabaret
B3	[02:18] Orchestra and Chorus - Fall In And Follow (H. R. Friedman) Crooner / Cabaret
B4	[01:43] Jim Reeves - Roving Gambler (Dean Manuel, Bobby Dyson) Country
B5	[01:05] Jim Reeves - Dolly With The Dimpled Knees (Taffy Kikillus, Gilbert Gibson) Crooner / Cabaret
B6	[01:33] Jim Reeves - The Boom-Chic Polka (Taffy Kikillus) Crooner / Cabaret
B7	[02:17] Jim Reeves - The Search Is Ended (Ray Baker) Crooner / Cabaret

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