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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.
The remaining four tracks on side one are from an album Croce recorded in 1966 entitled Facets. Sides two and three include the periods "1967–70" and "After 1970", respectively. Side four includes "the Raps", or Croce's storytelling in a live setting.
The record spent 93 weeks on the charts, longer than any other Jim Croce album. Due to the strong performance of the posthumous single release "Time in a Bottle" (#1 pop, No. 1 AC), You Don't Mess Around with Jim was the best selling album in the U.S. for five weeks in early 1974. [5] It was listed at No. 6 on the 1974 Cash Box year-end album ...
Facets is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Jim Croce, released and self-published in 1966. Croce had five hundred copies of the album pressed, [2] financed with a $500 cash wedding gift that he and his wife to be, Ingrid Croce, received from his parents. Croce's parents were certain that Jim would fail completely at selling ...
According to liner notes of the album. Jim Croce – lead vocals (all tracks); acoustic rhythm guitar (all tracks); backing vocals ("Alabama Rain"); Additional Personnel: Maury Muehleisen – acoustic lead guitar (all tracks except "One Less Set of Footsteps" and "Dreamin' Again"); electric lead guitar ("One Less Set of Footsteps" and "Dreamin' Again"); harmonica ("Alabama Rain"); backing ...
In 2012, Ingrid Croce published a memoir about Croce entitled I Got a Name: The Jim Croce Story. [37] In 1985, Ingrid Croce opened Croce's Restaurant & Jazz Bar, a project she had jokingly discussed with Croce, in the historic Gaslamp Quarter in downtown San Diego. She owned and managed it until its closure on December 31, 2013.
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"You Don't Mess Around with Jim" is a 1972 strophic (all verses have the same tune) story song by Jim Croce from his album of the same name. [3] It was Croce's debut single, released on ABC Records as ABC-11328. ABC Records promotion man Marty Kupps took it to KHJ 930 AM in Los Angeles, CA where it first aired. It made the KHJ "30" chart (at ...