Distant Drums (song)
| "Distant Drums" | |
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| Single by Roy Orbison | |
| B-side | "Falling" |
| Released | May 1963 |
| Recorded | January 4, 1963 |
| Genre | Pop |
| Length | 3:11 |
| Label | Monument |
| Songwriter(s) | Cindy Walker |
| Producer(s) | Fred Foster |
| "Distant Drums" | ||||
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| Single by Jim Reeves | ||||
| from the album Distant Drums | ||||
| B-side | "Old Tige" | |||
| Released | March 8, 1966 | |||
| Recorded | c. 1963 (original) March 1965 and February 1966 (overdubs for commercial release) | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Label | RCA | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Cindy Walker | |||
| Producer(s) | Chet Atkins | |||
| Jim Reeves singles chronology | ||||
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"Distant Drums" is a song which provided US singer Jim Reeves with his only UK No. 1 hit – albeit posthumously – in the United Kingdom in 1966, some two years after his death in a plane crash on 31 July 1964. The song remained in the UK Singles Chart for 25 weeks. The single also topped the US country chart for four weeks, becoming his most successful posthumous single.