Jim Croce: Favorite Song (1 Viewer)

[Encyclopedia Brown]

You Don't Mess Around With Jim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtCVElqYMUE

I Got A Name: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CczvSrdrezI

Bad Bad Leroy Brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwPRm5UMe1A

I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiIARdPMb1I

Operator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyhTmS_sLoE

Time In A Bottle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sgXCIDH-bk

Photographs And Memories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zgTccTSNrI

It Doesn't Have To Be That Way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxvd8NEd_C8

Speedball Tucker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEo06UdN9vI

One Less Of Footsteps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_2bSvTbvck

 

[peaces]

Tomorrow’s Gonna Be a Brighter Day 

 

[John123]

Man I love Jim Croce.  What sad loss that was.  Love pretty much all the songs listed but I remember when I got his greatest hits CD the song I fell in love with the first time I heard it was "One less set of footsteps" so voted for that.

 

[Uruk-Hai]

"I Got A Name" for me, but they're all pretty great.

 

[Osaurus]

Hard to pick a favorite here, but I went with Operator because it reminds me of my dad. 

 

[Foosball God]

Uptown got it's hustlers
The bowery got it's bums
42nd street got big Jim walker
He's a pool shootin' son of a gun

 

[Bracie Smathers]

My selection is OTHER.

See my NEXT 100 song from 1969 LINK

 

[zamboni]

Always had a soft spot for Time In A Bottle - beautiful song.

Also reminds me of this great moment from The Muppet Show.

 

[OldMilwaukee]

OTHER:  Five short minutes of loving.

 

[Dan Lambskin]

Leeeeeeeeeeeeeroy Brown

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Other.  

A Long Time Ago

He wrote lovely songs.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

5 albums and 12 singles is what he had time to do.  Only 30 years old at the time of the plane crash,  I imagine he had quite a few more great songs still inside him. 

 

[Parrothead]

all of them

 

[trogg78]

Working at the car wash blues

 

[Mister CIA]

all of them

Good answer!

I've probably told this story before, but back in my youthful days of the 70s living in Arlington, TX, we used to make road trips to West Texas to visit the extended family two or three times a year.  The 8-track rotation included Jim Croce's Don't Mess Around with Jim (my dynasty team name was inspired by Jim Croce - The Willie McCoys).  Jim Croce boasts the second greatest hunk of Americana music, surpassed only by John Hartford.  Nothing but love for this man.

Bonus Track: Box #10.

 

[Mister CIA]

I've got a name

and I carry it with me like my daddy did.

 

[Mister CIA]

And for the win:  Walkin' Back to Georgia.

 

[rockaction]

Ooh. I'll play. Doctor My Eyes. Love that one. 

 

[Zegras11]

Ooh. I'll play. Doctor My Eyes. Love that one. 

Can I get a link please?

 

[rockaction]

Can I get a link please?

It's Jackson Browne. I was kidding.

When pressed, I'm going Bad Bad Leroy Brown. Baddest man in the whole damn town. Badder than old King Kong. Meaner than a junkyard dog.

 

[Mr. Mojo]

"I Got A Name" for me, but they're all pretty great.

This would make my top 10 songs list of the entire 1970s.