Jim Croce You Don't Mess Around With Jim Quadraphonic QS LP (The Stock Car Boy)
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Jul 13, 2021 Sold Date
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The album was recorded over a three to four-week period for approximately $18,000, with most funding coming from the PolyGram Group in Baarn, the Netherlands on the basis of hearing an 8-song demo tape assembled by production team Cashman & West. The deal with PolyGram was made after team attorney Phil Kurnit approached a contact within the record company who then had PolyGram executives listen to the demo tape. After having the finished album rejected by up to 40 record labels, Croce was signed to ABC Records after Cashman & West had a chance meeting with ABC promotion man Marty Kupps. Kupps urged label head Jay Lasker to sign Croce after hearing cuts from a cassette tape of the finished album.
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. It was listed at No. 6 on the 1974 Cash Box yearend album charts. Two singles were originally released from the album in 1972: the title track (#8 pop) and "Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)" (#17 pop).
1. "You Don't Mess Around with Jim" 3:02 2. "Tomorrow's Gonna Be a Brighter Day" 2:57 3. "New York's Not My Home" 3:10 4. "Hard Time Losin' Man" 2:29 5. "Photographs and Memories" 2:09 6. "Walkin' Back to Georgia" 2:53 7. "Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)" 3:50 8. "Time in a Bottle" 2:29 9. "Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy)" 2:46 10. "Box No. 10" 2:46 11. "A Long Time Ago" 2:53 12. "Hey Tomorrow" 2:47
Jim Croce – guitar, rhythm guitar, lead vocals, background vocals Maury Muehleisen – guitar, background vocals The Briggs – background vocals Terry Cashman – background vocals Tommy West – bass, percussion, piano, rhythm guitar, keyboards, electric piano, background vocals Joe Macho – bass Jimmy Ryan – bass Gary Chester – drums
Producers: Terry Cashman, Tommy West Recording Engineer: Bruce Tergesen Photography: Paul Wilson


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