Jim Croce - You Don't Mess Around With Jim album flac

You Don't Mess Around with Jim" is a 1972 single by Jim Croce from his album of the same name. The song was also Croce's debut single when it was released in June 1972 on ABC Records as ABC-11328. The song first aired on KHJ 930 AM in Los Angeles when ABC Records promotion man Marty Kupps took the single to the radio station, where it appeared on the KHJ "30" chart at number 27 during the week of June 6, 1972

Produced by Terry Cashman & Tommy West for Interrobang Productions.

You Don't Mess With Jim was Jim Croce's most successful album at the time of it's release, and with another album coming a year later, Croce was poised to become an absolute superstar. Sadly, weeks before the release of his 1973 album, Croce was killed in a plane crash. He left his wife, son, and an entire fanbase with both his new album, and a posthumous album later that same year.

You Don't Mess Around with Jim is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Jim Croce, released in 1972. 1 History and release. The deal with PolyGram was made after team attorney Phil Kurnit approached a contact within the record company who then had PolyGram executives to listen to the demo tape. The song "You Don't Mess Around with Jim" has been covered by Poison on Look What the Cat Dragged In, Ty Herndon on What Mattered Most, Josh Turner on Long Black Train, and Donna Fargo on My Second Album. Kid Rock covered "Box in 1995 as part of The Bootleg Series.

You Don’t Mess Around with Jim was Jim Croce’s third studio album, which featured singles such as the titular track, You Don’t Mess around with Jim, Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels) and arguably his most well known song Time in a Bottle. You Don’t Mess Around with Jim Q&A.

CHORUS: F C You don't tug on Superman's cape F C You don't spit into the wind F Csus4 You don't pull the mask off the ol' Lone Ranger Bbb F C F C Csus4 And you don't mess around with Jim, do do do do da dee dee dee. Well outta south Alabama came a country boy He said "I'm lookin for a man named Jim I'm a pool shootin boy my name is Willie McCoy At home they just call me Slim Yeah I'm lookin for the king of forty-second street drivin a drop top Cadillac Last week he took all my money and it may sound

Album · 1972 · 12 Songs. See All. Have You Heard Jim Croce Live.

Croce's debut ABC album was also his commercial breakthrough, topping the charts for five weeks, largely due to the comic, up-tempo title tune, a story song about competing pool hustlers, although Croce also reached the Top 20 with the change-of-pace ballad "Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels). Just after his death, ABC issued the track "Time in a Bottle," and a newly ironic message propelled it to number one.