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Gunga Din". [6] In 1964 Duane Hiatt and the group The 3Ds released an album of classic poetry set to music, including Gunga Din, with lyrics almost word for word from Kipling's poem. [7] Songwriter Jim Croce set the words to music as "The Ballad of Gunga Din" and released it on his 1966 Facets album.
The album was designed to show Croce's artistic development, the track listing is chronological and the liner notes described each period of Croce's career. Side one includes "1961–64 The Spires" and "1964–67 Facets".
Gunga Din" is an 1890 poem by Rudyard Kipling. Gunga Din may also refer to: Gunga Din, 1939 film; Gunga Din (motorcycle) The Gunga Din, an American rock band "The Ballad of Gunga Din", a song from the Jim Croce album Facets (1966) "Gunga Din", a song from the Byrds album Ballad of Easy Rider (1969)
From "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" to "Time In A Bottle" Jim Croce's songs remain timeless classics.
Croce's band was chosen for a foreign exchange tour of Africa, the Middle East and Yugoslavia. He later said, "We just ate what the people ate, lived in the woods, and played our songs. Of course they didn't speak English over there but if you mean what you're singing, people understand."
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First (1892) edition of Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses (publ. Methuen). The Barrack-Room Ballads are a series of songs and poems by Rudyard Kipling, dealing with the late-Victorian British Army and mostly written in a vernacular dialect.
Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits album by American singer-songwriter Jim Croce, released on September 26, 1974, by ABC Records.The album was Croce's second posthumous release following his 1973 death in an airplane crash.