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For unjustifiable reasons this highly relevant article has disappeared and needs to be recreated ASAP. Best, --24.154.173.243 01:52, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
In the "External links" section, I've added archives of Helton's official websites. RJHelton.com was operated from 2004 through 2005, and RJHeltonMusic.com was operated from 2007 through 2013. The archive for the latter website, unfortunately, doesn't display very clearly - there is a grey bar somewhat near the top of the page that can be clicked on in several places. The grey bar contains seven different tabs. Although those tabs cannot be read in the archived page, they still work. I'll link directly to each of them here. From left to right, the tabs are: Home, News, Music, Press Info, Photos, Store, and Contact. --Jpcase (talk) 05:34, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
--Jpcase (talk) 16:57, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
Before this Wiki page was redirected and subsequently recreated, it contained an external link to an RJ Helton fan club website. Since there's no clear indication that the website had been officially affiliated with Helton (it may have been, but I haven't seen any reason to assume that it was), I won't include a link to the website in the current version of this Wikipedia article. But it's worth noting here that the website contained music by Helton that wasn't included on the album, Real Life. Apparently Helton had two demo albums, each with five tracks, and also released at least four songs after Real Life. Unfortunately, the fan site isn't online anymore, and none of the downloads seem to work in the version of the fansite that was archived by the Way Back Machine. --Jpcase (talk) 17:32, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
I'm not sure yet if I'll find a way to work either of these into the article - but wanted to note two interesting magazine pieces about Helton that I've come across. The first, which can be seen here, is an interview with CCM Magazine that Helton and Kelly Clarkson did together in May 2004, just a couple months after the release of Real Life. The second, which can be seen here, is a story published in the January/February 2004 issue of Campus Life. According to this archived page from Helton's official website, the Campus Life article was that issue's cover story. --Jpcase (talk) 20:13, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
For my benefit, I'm making a list here of all songs released by Helton that weren't on Real Life, the Idol compilation CD, or part of his collabs with Scott Alan. I'll add more as I find them and will likely post most or all of this to the Discography section eventually.
RJ-Aholics Exclusive [3]
Jpcase (talk) 14:23, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
Non-album songs released December 17, 2005 [4]
Non-album songs released February 15, 2006 [5]
(note: "Hot" is listed as a "new" song in the Dec. 17, 2005 list and in the Feb. 15, 2006 list, whereas "I Miss You" is listed only in the Dec. 17, 2005 list. I'm not sure why this is. I'm also not sure if "Majic" in "Majic Man" is intentionally misspelled or if whoever set up the website simply made a typo.)
I've added Helton's two demo albums to the discography section. As mentioned in the previous talk page sections, I'm using Helton's officially endorsed fansite, RJAholics.com, as a source. But I also managed to track down a physical copy of Helton's first demo album and am able to use that as an additional source. The fansite is actually missing a track from that first demo album - only five tracks are listed on the fansite, whereas in reality the album has six tracks. The sixth track is an acappella version of "His Eye Is on the Sparrow". According to RJAholics, this same song is also the first track of Helton's second demo CD. I don't know if Helton made two separate recordings of the song or not. RJAholics does not describe the track on the second demo album as an acapella recording, so these might be different versions. But I haven't been able to track down a physical copy of Helton's second demo album, so I can't say for certain.
RJAholics simply titles Helton's first two demos as RJ's Demo CD #1 and RJ's Demo CD #2. That said, the physical copy of the first demo is titled R. Jay, so I've used that title for it in the discography. It bears emphasizing that the title writes his first initial simply as "R." but then spells out his second initial as "Jay". I have never seen Helton's name stylized this way anywhere else.
I've also been able to add a few album details, such as the year and label, for the first demo, using the album's back cover as a source. Jpcase (talk) 14:37, 30 April 2024 (UTC)