Country Ultimate

Sony Music presents Top 40 Country Christmas - 48 holiday tracks from such artists as Elvis Presley, Connie Smith, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton and many others.

Gentleman Jim Reeves was perhaps the biggest male star to emerge from the Nashville sound. His mellow baritone voice and muted velvet orchestration combined to create a sound that echoed around his world and has lasted to this day. Detractors will call the sound country-pop (or plain pop), but none can argue against the large audience that loves this music. Reeves was capable of singing hard country ("Mexican Joe" went to number one in 1953), but he made his greatest impact as a country-pop crooner. From 1955 through 1969, Reeves was consistently in the country and pop charts – an amazing fact in light of his untimely death in an airplane accident in 1964. Not only was he a presence in the American charts, but he became country music's foremost international ambassador and, if anything, was even more popular in Europe and Britain than in his native America.

2008 three CD collection from the man in black, packaged in a limited edition collectors 'tin box' that is a must have purchase for collectors and impulse buyers alike. A superb mix of 50's kitsch artwork and retro 'tin' packaging together with superior quality make this product both collectable and a perfect gift item. This fantastic triple disc set and 24 page book, features 45 classic tracks from his early years.