Jim Croce You Don't Mess Around with Jim 1972 ABC Original Monarch Vinyl LP
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You Don't Mess Around with Jim Studio album by Jim Croce Released April 1972[1] Recorded 1971–1972 Studio Hit Factory, New York City Genre Folk rock Length 33:22 Label ABC (USA)
Vertigo (UK) Producer Terry Cashman, Tommy West Jim Croce chronology Jim & Ingrid Croce
(1969) You Don't Mess Around with Jim
(1972) Life & Times
(1973) Singles from You Don't Mess Around with Jim
- "You Don't Mess Around with Jim"
Released: July 1972 - "Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)"
Released: October 1972 - "Time in a Bottle"
Released: November 1973
You Don't Mess Around with Jim is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Jim Croce, released in April 1972 by ABC Records.
History and release
[edit]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 eight-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.[5] It was listed at No. 6 on the 1974 Cash Box year-end album charts.[6] 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).
The album was issued on CD by the Rhino Flashbacks record label on September 30, 2008.
Tracks
[edit] Main article: You Don't Mess Around with Jim (song)The lyrics of the title track concern the fate of a 'pool-shooting son-of-a-gun' by the name of 'Big' Jim Walker when his 'mark', Willie 'Slim' McCoy, from South Alabama, shows up to get a refund from being hustled or get revenge. The song is notable for the line, "You don't tug on Superman's cape/You don't spit into the wind/You don't pull the mask off that ol' Lone Ranger/And you don't mess around with Jim." However, after the song ends with Jim being thoroughly thrashed by his victim ("he'd been cut 'n 'bout a hundred places/ and he'd been shot in a couple more"), the chorus now goes, "You don't mess around with Slim."
Reception
William Ruhlmann of AllMusic called it "his commercial breakthrough"
Billboard selected the album for a "Pop Special Merit" review, and called it "an Fashioned Album"
Track listing
All tracks are written by Jim Croce
No. Title Length 1. "You Don't Mess Around with Jim" 3:00 2. "Tomorrow's Gonna Be a Brighter Day" 2:49 3. "New York's Not My Home" 3:05 4. "Hard Time Losin' Man" 2:23 5. "Photographs and Memories" 2:03 6. "Walkin' Back to Georgia" 2:47 7. "Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)" 3:45 8. "Time in a Bottle" 2:24 9. "Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy)" 2:40 10. "Box No. 10" 2:22 11. "A Long Time Ago" 2:18 12. "Hey Tomorrow" 2:40price rating
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