Jim Croce: Favorite Song (1 Viewer)

Encyclopedia Brown

Footballguy

• Dec 31, 2020

• #1

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

 

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peaces

Footballguy

• Dec 31, 2020

• #2

Tomorrow’s Gonna Be a Brighter Day 

 

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John123

Footballguy

• Dec 31, 2020

• #3

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

Footballguy

• Dec 31, 2020

• #4

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

 

Osaurus

Footballguy

• Dec 31, 2020

• #5

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

 

Foosball God

Foos

• Dec 31, 2020

• #6

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

Footballguy

• Dec 31, 2020

• #7

My selection is OTHER.

See my NEXT 100 song from 1969 LINK

 

zamboni

Footballguy

• Dec 31, 2020

• #8

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

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

 

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OldMilwaukee

IBL Representative

• Dec 31, 2020

• #9

OTHER:  Five short minutes of loving.

 

Dan Lambskin

Footballguy

• Dec 31, 2020

• #10

Leeeeeeeeeeeeeroy Brown

 

Mrs. Rannous

Footballguy

• Dec 31, 2020

• #11

Other.  

A Long Time Ago

He wrote lovely songs.

 

Leroy Hoard

Footballguy

• Dec 31, 2020

• #12

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

Footballguy

• Dec 31, 2020

• #13

all of them

 

trogg78

Footballguy

• Dec 31, 2020

• #14

Working at the car wash blues

 

Mister CIA

Footballguy

• Dec 31, 2020

• #15

Parrothead said:

all of them

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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

Footballguy

• Dec 31, 2020

• #16

I've got a name

and I carry it with me like my daddy did.

 

Mister CIA

Footballguy

• Dec 31, 2020

• #17

And for the win:  Walkin' Back to Georgia.

 

rockaction

Footballguy

• Jan 1, 2021

• #18

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

 

Zegras11

Footballguy

• Jan 1, 2021

• #19

rockaction said:

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

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Can I get a link please?

 

rockaction

Footballguy

• Jan 1, 2021

• #20

Getzlaf15 said:

Can I get a link please?

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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

Footballguy

• Jan 1, 2021

• #21

Uruk-Hai said:

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

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