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"Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)" is a 1972 song written by Jim Croce. Croce's record was released on August 23, 1972. It was the second single released from Croce's album You Don't Mess Around with Jim. It reached a peak of number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1972, spending twelve weeks on the chart.
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 ...
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.
From "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" to "Time In A Bottle" Jim Croce's songs remain timeless classics.
Croce's breakthrough came in 1972, when his third album, You Don't Mess Around with Jim, produced three charting singles, including "Time in a Bottle", which reached No. 1 after Croce died. The follow-up album Life and Times included the song " Bad, Bad Leroy Brown ", Croce's only No. 1 hit during his lifetime.
Croce was killed in a small-plane crash in September 1973, the same week that a 45RPM single, the title cut from his studio album I Got a Name was released. After the delayed release of a song from his previous album ("Time in a Bottle") in late 1973, "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song" was chosen as the second single released from his final studio album.
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"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.