Distant Drums (song)

This article is about the song. For the movie, see Distant Drums.
"Distant Drums"
Single by Roy Orbison
B-side"Falling"
ReleasedMay 1963
RecordedJanuary 4, 1963
GenrePop
Length3:11
LabelMonument
Songwriter(s)Cindy Walker[1]
Producer(s)Fred Foster
"Distant Drums"
Single by Jim Reeves
from the album Distant Drums
B-side"Old Tige"
ReleasedMarch 8, 1966
Recordedc. 1963 (original)
March 1965 and February 1966 (overdubs for commercial release)
GenreCountry
LabelRCA
Songwriter(s)Cindy Walker[1]
Producer(s)Chet Atkins[1]
Jim Reeves singles chronology
"Snowflake"
(1966) 		"Distant Drums"
(1966) 		"Blue Side of Lonesome"
(1966)

"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.[1] 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.[2]

  1. ^ a b c d Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1st ed.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. p. 105. ISBN 0-85112-250-7.
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 286.