Jim Reeves: Featuring He'll Have to Go and Other Favorites

Awesome! Listening reminds me of my Mom ❤️

Jim Reeves, FEATURING HE'LL HAVE TO GO AND OTHER FAVORITES, RCA/Victor LPM 2223 mono vinyl LpNote: The initial issue of this RCA/Victor Lp did not have a corresponding stereo version, March, 1960. The original mono-only issue of the album had a black & white photo with Jim standing at a recording studio microphone.Track list (corresponding 45 singles are listed referenced to each Lp track):side one--He'll Have to Go (47-7643; October, 1959)I Love You More (47-7171; February, 1958)Wishful ThinkingHoney, Won't You Please Come HomeI'm Beginning to Forget You (47-7557; June, 1959)Billy Bayou (47-7380; October, 1958)side two--If Heartache Is the Fashion (47-7479; March, 1959)Partners (47-7557; June, 1959)Theme of Love (47-7266; September, 1958)I'd Like to Be (47-7380; October, 1958)After AwhileHome (47-7479; March, 1959)The album charted on Billboard's MONO ACTION LPS chart, peaked at #18 on 7/04/60; on Cash Box, it peaked at #44 and only bumped the bottom 50 for a month.Um, the January, 1962 reissue with a new color cover photo and "stereo," too...RCA introduced "STEREO Electronically Reprocessed" fake stereo rechanneled Lps in January, 1962, to counter Capitol's "duophonic" fake stereo rechanneled Lps about six months before. Mono Lps had a factory list price of $3.98; stereo copies (even these faux rechanneled screwed up sound versions) went at a buck more for hi-fi nuts. Jim Reeves's "stereo" LSP 2223e version (with a new front color cover picture, him wearing a b&w check sportcoat and red polka dot shirt) went out at this time, as did its mono reissue 1962+ counterpart. RCA also changed the stereo version's back cover liner notes' slick. Record label in use at the time had the black "dog on top" label with "RCA VICTOR" in SILVER letters; bottom of the "stereo" copy had the word "STEREO" in silver staggered letters at the bottom, and "electronically reprocessed" (groovy looking label for such lousy sound).Stereo:From my stereo copy's back cover:"FROM THE ORIGINATORS OF ELECTRONICALLY REPROCESSED STEREOThis record is the result of lengthy research and experimentation in the development of an electronic process that transforms monophonic recordings to two-channel recordings with stereophonic characteristics. By means of this unique electronic process, developed by RCA Victor, yesterday's irreplaceable recorded performances take on the spacious depth of sound that the stereo phonograph of today is capable of reproducing, while still preserving the artistic intent of the original performance."(so says the box bracketing this message in the upper left corner)RCA's "...electronic process that transforms monophonic recordings to two-channel recordings..." on this Lp essentially translates to splitting the mono sound into two channels, the right channel about 1/10th second delay between your two stereo speakers. Putting it succinctly, all the tracks are deep tile bathroom echo, all fake stereo.RCA and all the major labels were recording in two or three track multi-track tape by about Christmas, 1958 (45 singles range about the 47-7400 series begin possible stereo recording, though 45RPM singles were mono mixes). Roughly HALF this album would have been real stereo (if RCA's A&R department cared enough to use the pre-mono final mix session tapes); the pre-fall, 1958 tracks were mono recordings.I went out and found a copy; I had to know. I played the whole thing: The ENTIRE "stereo" album, LSP-2223e, is bathroom tile reverb fake stereo.About the song, "He'll Have To Go" in stereo otherwise:RCA/Victor compiled THE BEST OF JIM REEVES, RCA LSP 2890, released about August, 1964, and put the track on that (stereo) album. Original copies of LSP 2890 (black "dog on top" label with "RCA VICTOR" at the top of the label in SILVER letters) have yet another rechanneled fake stereo version of "He'll Have To Go". The late '64 rechanneled version of the song has the high notes on the left channel, bass on the right, and a little ghost echo on the right; RCA seems to have wised up about just how ANNOYING their 1962 doubling-echo fake stereo was and updated it with something less likely to make your head vibrate and explode while wearing headphones. BUT... the 1965+ versions of THE BEST OF JIM REEVES, RCA LSP 2890, with the black "dog on top" label with "RCA VICTOR" in WHITE letters (referencing my own 1965-68 pressing of LSP 2890) have the TRUE stereo mix on "He'll Have To Go."