<Table> <Tr> <Td> "Guilty" (1963) </Td> <Td> "Welcome to My World" (1964) </Td> <Td> "Love Is No Excuse" (1964) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> "Guilty" (1963) </Td> <Td> "Welcome to My World" (1964) </Td> <Td> "Love Is No Excuse" (1964) </Td> </Tr> <P> "Welcome to My World" is a popular music standard written by Ray Winkler and John Hathcock (1919 - 2000) and recorded by many artists, most notably Jim Reeves . Though the song is credited to Winkler and Hathcock, the melody was likely written by Eddie McDuff rather than Winkler . A traditional love song, the bridge includes lyrics taken from Matthew 7: 7--8 ("Knock and the door will open; seek and you will find; ask and you'll be given...," from the Sermon on the Mount). </P> <P> The most famous version was performed by country music singer Jim Reeves, whose version was included on his 1962 album A Touch of Velvet . Reeves' version, styled in the then - prevalent Nashville Sound - style, was released as a single in the U.S. in early 1964, and reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart that spring, and also gained sporadic airplay on pop radio stations, reaching the No. 2 spot on Billboard's Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart . The song would become one of Reeves' last major hits in the U.S. during his lifetime, as he was killed in a plane crash on July 31, 1964 . </P>

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