50 years later, Jim Reeves still ‘Gentleman ... According to published reports, his appearances there, including a sports arena concert in Oslo with Bobby Bare, Chet Akins, ...

Jim Reeves, center, works with Chet Atkins, right, RCA manager of Nashville operations, in the RCA studio on Oct. 19, 1962. Reeves is recording his first Christmas album for RCA Victor.

Reeves' plane fell from the sky, plummeting into the Brentwood woods, just east of I-65. He and his manager/piano player Dean Manuel were killed in the violent crash, at 4:52 p.m. on Friday, July 31.

Jim Reeves, a crooner that stood at the intersection of country and pop, died in Nashville on Friday, July 31, 1964 alongside his manager and pianist, Dean Manuel.

In July 1964 Jim Reeves was found dead in the wreckage of a private plane ten miles south of Nashville. He was 39. But Jim's death was far from being the end of the story.

Jim Reeves, center, works with Chet Atkins, right, RCA manager of Nashville operations, in the RCA studio on Oct. 19, 1962. Reeves is recording his first Christmas album for RCA Victor.