Born in Sydney, Australia, he attended the NSW State Conservatorium of Music before moving to South Africa.
Walker moved to the United States and arrived in Nashville, TN just in time to learn that Reeves had died in a plane crash.
In the late 1960s, Walker got offered the position of musical director for the Johnny Cash Show on ABC.
Walker's other TV credits include Music Hall America, Nashville Remembers Elvis on His Birthday, Ann-Margret...Rhinestone Cowgirl and the Music City News Awards, Country Music Association Awards for 15 years, Perry Como And His Nashville Friends, Nashville Remembers Elvis On His Birthday, the Grand Ole Opry At 50, Lynn Anderson & Tina Turner In Nashville, Ann-Margret’s Rhinestone Cowgirl, Opryland In Russia, That Great American Gospel Sound (with Tennessee Ernie Ford and Della Reese), Conway Twitty: On the Mississippi, The Tenth Anniversary Of The Reopening of Ford’s Theater, The Music City News Cover Awards Show (also for 15 years), A Celebration Of Country Music At Ford’s Theater (a two-hour special for President Jimmy Carter), Crystal Gayle In Sweden and George Burns In Nashville.
[9] He also earned gold records for Eddy Arnold's "Make the World Go Away", "Turn The World Around", "Misty Blue" and "What's He Doing in My World"; Bobby Vinton's "Roses Are Red (My Love)" and "My Elusive Dreams"; Roy Clark's "Come Live With Me"; Jim Reeves' "From a Jack to a King"; Sammi Smith's "Help Me Make It Through the Night"; Marty Robbins's "My Woman, My Woman, My Wife"; Johnny Cash 's "Sunday Morning Coming Down"; Bob Dylan's "Copper Kettle" and Nashville Skyline; and Donna Fargo 's "The Happiest Girl In The Whole U.S.A." and "Funny Face".
Later, in 2007, Jeff Walker founded the digital distribution label GMV Nashville, primarily as a way to re-release the Con Brio titles.