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After the single had finished its two-week run at the top in early January 1974, the album You Don't Mess Around with Jim became No. 1 for five weeks. [33] After seven weeks of its release, I Got a Name reached No. 2 behind You Don't Mess Around with Jim. [34] [35] A greatest hits album titled Photographs & Memories was released in 1974.
"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" is an uptempo, strophic story song written by American folk rock singer Jim Croce. Released as part of his 1973 album Life and Times, the song was a No. 1 hit for him, spending two weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in July 1973.
Jim Croce was an American singer-songwriter with five studio albums and 12 singles to his credit. His posthumously -released fifth studio album was completed just prior to his 1973 death, and seven singles were also posthumously issued, one of which was " Time in a Bottle " from a previous album You Don't Mess Around with Jim .
From "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" to "Time In A Bottle" Jim Croce's songs remain timeless classics.
"Time in a Bottle" is a song by singer-songwriter Jim Croce. It appeared on Croce's 1972 ABC third album You Don't Mess Around with Jim and was featured in the 1973 ABC made-for-television movie She Lives! After Croce was killed in a plane crash in September 1973, the song was aired frequently on radio, and demand for a single release built.
Jim Croce performed the song live on an episode of The Midnight Special in 1973, and on the July 19, 1973 episode of NBC's The Helen Reddy Show. [7] There is at least one other known live video recorded performance of "I Got A Name," at Royce Hall, UCLA Campus, Los Angeles, California in August 1973. [8]
Jim Croce Live: The Final Tour is a live album by American singer-songwriter Jim Croce, originally released in 1989, roughly 16 years after his untimely death at age 30 in a plane crash on September 20, 1973. Recorded on the 1973 tour, the album features in-concert performances of some of Croce's biggest hits, peppered with stories and banter ...
The song "One Less Set of Footsteps" was covered by Jerry Reed on his 1980 album Jerry Reed Sings Jim Croce. In 1992 Crystal Gayle covered it on her album Three Good Reasons. Larry Stewart also covered the song on the compilation album Jim Croce: A Nashville Tribute in 1997. The Ventures covered it on The Ventures Play the Jim Croce Songbook.