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THIS MAN!.| FIRST TIME HEARING Jim Croce - Bad Bad Leroy Brown REACTION
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@bryansproles2879 2 года назад

Another great Jim Croce song is "Time in a Bottle". Another song with a similar topic/feel would be Boz Scaggs - Lido Shuffle

@Dooklawz 2 года назад

god yes, Time In A Bottle. . ....they'll love that one ;)

@SevenHunnid 2 года назад

People say I’m dumb because i quit my job to smoke weed on my RU-vid channel full time & do what makes me happy smh ):

@nebelungpixie9373 2 года назад

YES !!! Best. Song.

@oreally8605 2 года назад

Definitely

@jethro1963 2 года назад

He looked quite different in his younger days without the stache and fro, almost unrecognizable. I used to have a pretty good album he did with his wife Ingrid.

@leftywright6458 2 года назад

"Operator," "Lover's Cross," "Time in a Bottle," "Don't Mess Around With Jim," "One Less Set of Footsteps," just about anything on his greatest hits is stellar.

@nebelungpixie9373 2 года назад

Yes … This is a fun song, but not his most beautiful. Such a beautiful voice and excellent guitarist. ❤️ Gone far too soon. Can you imagine what he could have recorded ???

@gregorymoore2877 2 года назад

"Roller Derby Queen"; "Rapid Roy The Stock Car Boy"; "Working At The Car Wash Blues"; "Speedball Tucker"; "New York's Not My Home"; "Photographs And Memories"; "I've Got A Name"; "I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song"

@charlesvincent4127 2 года назад

You forgot roller derby queen.

@barbaraburton8914 2 года назад

Love Lover's Cross and Time in a Bottle.

@andrewkeup9209 2 года назад

Yeah, they need to dig deep into the Croce catalog! Plenty of real good songs!

@josephcote6120 2 года назад

Here's a great story about Jim Croce: This song was a huge huge hit. AT the time Sonny and Cher had a variety TV show (music, comedy bits, guest starts) and they wanted Croce to come on and do this song. The early 70's were a very different time than now on TV. The network people (Standards and Practices it was called) told the producers of the show, you can have him, but change the line "baddest man in the whole damn town" to "whole darn town." The show passed this on to Croce who said, more or less, "I'm doing YOU a favor coming on your show. If you want me, you will let me perform the song the way I wrote it." And the network backed down, and he performed his song his way, and that was the first time someone said "damn" on TV that wasn't an accidental thing like a live news broadcast.

@jamil2447 2 года назад

You mean the Fonz never exclaimed DAYUM whenever a hot chick passed by? LOL. I suppose when the great Roger Miller sang, "Dang me--dang me they otta take a rope and hang me," instead sang 'damn me, damn me they shoulda took a bat to slam me' would've got him eviscerated 😃 just saying...

@jasonsigler8500 2 года назад

"Leroy looked like a jigsaw puzzle with a couple of pieces gone". Moral of the story is that no matter how bad you may be there is always someone badder!

@jjb9739 2 года назад

Same applies to "don't mess around with Jim"! Ask Slim.

@Floppy_Bacon Год назад

💯% Agree Brutha

@David-qi1ys Год назад

Yep and wearing his diamond rings on everybody's nose wasn't about showing off bling, but punchin' folks in the face.

@alexwaverley729 Месяц назад

@@David-qi1ys Wave. He waved his rings in front of everybody's nose.

@chrisspratlin5656 20 дней назад

My father gave me this same advice.

@vandergod 2 года назад

Love Jim Croce, such a talent, gone way too soon. You must listen to “Operator” sometime soon. I hear his music and go back to the 70’s in my mind.

@pinkstarphoenix6182 2 года назад

I agree! Operator tells a story, so sad but beautiful! I love it even more than Time In A Bottle

@isthatthetimealready 2 года назад

Operator and Time In A Bottle are two of the most beautiful songs ever

@DavidKing-ut9wr 2 года назад

Photographs and Memories is a great song by Jim.

@George-ci2kt 2 года назад

Yes, please listen to Operator!!

@janekayser-alexander5790 2 года назад

"Operator" makes me cry EVERYTIME I listen to it.

@erickyoung8331 2 года назад

I think you missed that it didn't end up so good for Leroy. He was cut up (and probably dead) at the end when he met the jealous man. He "looked like a jigsaw puzzle with a few pieces gone." You are only bad until you meet the guy that is even "badder" than you.

@gregorymoore2877 2 года назад

...or until you "learn a lesson 'bout messing' with the wife of a jealous man."

@thefuzzman 2 года назад

I think you are correct lol no matter how badass you are, there's always someone else more badass 😂

@bobbyrios3103 2 года назад

Another good one along the same lines as this one is "don't mess around with jim"

@keithjones9544 2 года назад

@@gregorymoore2877 you nailed it gregory!😂😎

@Ken-sc3gx 2 года назад

It's a lesson many people either learn or die learning. Be a good person and a fair dealer to all you meet, cuz you never know......

@40momba 2 года назад

Leroy was a man that Jim knew when he was in the Army !

@abon587 Год назад

I love how the chorus the first two times is fearful and respectful of Leroy, and then it becomes a sarcastic mockery of him. Such a great song.

@tommesing4281 9 месяцев назад

Yes. That's what people miss about the song - the sarcasm of the last 2 choruses.

@JoeMama410 2 года назад

Jim Croce is one of my all-time favorites. He is such a great storyteller. Check out Operator, Lover’s Cross, and You Don’t Mess Around With Jim. Or just check out his whole best-of.

@jaysone.94 2 года назад

Jim Croce - Dont Mess Around With Jim

@davidkeech9738 2 года назад

I'd add in King's Song as well. GREAT storytelling in that song.

@BaronessErsatz 2 года назад

Time In a Bottle.

@eddiep52065 2 года назад

Photographs and memories, time in a bottle , one less set of footsteps...and let's not forget the pig song!!🤣

@Peter-oh3hc 2 года назад

So many good songs. Lovers cross is my favorite

@lylewicks4112 2 года назад

He was prolific song writer who left us way too soon. This was a perfect example of his fun side along with "Don't Mess Around With Jim". He also wrote some of the most beautiful story songs ever, such as "Operator" and "Time in a Bottle". Amber would surely fall in love with both of those and drift away into the "Amber sway".

@rmb1327 2 года назад

I would also really recommend checking out "Photographs and Memories" and "New York's Not My Home". Both by Jim Croce that showcase his more romantic and sentimental side.

@garyr8739 2 года назад

I second Operator and Time in a Bottle. I know she would love them. And Don't Mess Around with Jim would be another folk story for them to listen to.

@1000lilfeet 2 года назад

Well said!

@johncampbell756 2 года назад

Time in a Bottle was my mother's favorite song.

@brianlogsdon4824 2 года назад

Rapid Roy was a fun song too, along with Workin at the car wash blues

@jjowen2012 2 года назад

Jim Croce is an amazing singer and story teller. Time in a bottle is a beautiful song

@user-pr7do9oh1r 9 месяцев назад

WHAT!!!! This is your first time hearing this song?????? Wow! This is a true classic!!! hope you play more of Jim!!!

@carleton4199 2 года назад

"Operator" and "Time In A Bottle" are outstanding Jim Croce songs (COMPLETELY different than "Bad Leroy Brown"), he was a talented artist and songwriter. The two of you calling him a storyteller is very accurate.

@VicMikesvideodiary 2 года назад

And don't forget " Don't mess around with Jim", which is almost identical to " Bad Leroy Brown".

@mibosol 2 года назад

@@VicMikesvideodiary I second both of these comments. Came here to say the very same thing.

@nebelungpixie9373 2 года назад

I agree with others … “Time in a Bottle” is the one you will LOVE. “Don’t Mess Around with Jim” is a lot like this first song. You will for sure love it since you liked this one. Another story song.

@michlkwitz 2 года назад

"Time In A Bottle" will make Amber all teary-eyed, for sure.

@rff2552 2 года назад

@@michlkwitz absolutely especially when she learns it was written by him for his pregnant wife and released weeks after his tragic death. So poignant!

@jenniferfoster1692 2 года назад

Everyone who lived during this time know this song by heart. I was a kid and we all screamed/sang the chorus every time it came on. It was huge

@EJAcademy 2 года назад

Yes, especially hitting 'baddest man in the whole DAMN town', since we couldn’t swear. We would then tell irritated parents that we were just singing along 😇

@jenniferfoster1692 2 года назад

@@EJAcademy Haha, yeah, it was like permission to swear, lol!

@StevesFunhouse 2 года назад

His last name is pronounced like, "Crow-Chee". For more fun, story-telling songs like this one, I would try: 1. You Don't Mess Around With Jim 2. Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy) 3. Workin' at the Car Wash Blues 4. Roller Derby Queen but, for ones that show off his great singing abilities, I would look to: 1. Operator (you might cry, it's that good) 2. Lover's Cross 3. I Got A Name 4. I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song 5. New York’s Not My Home

@goomah35 2 года назад

Yes! Crow-chee!!!

@JPSE57 2 года назад

@@goomah35 With the emphasis on the first syllable: CROW-chee.

@larryponder6934 2 года назад

Don't forget Time in a Bottle

@StevesFunhouse 2 года назад

@@larryponder6934 Haven't forgotten it. My suggestions were in response to their request for more great story-telling songs, and songs that show off his great singing abilities, and these are MY suggestions. Though TIAB is a good song ... for some ... it's just not 1 of MY favorites. It's not that it's a bad song, but I'd rather them react to the ones I mentioned first, before they do that one. Hope that makes sense to you. If you like that one, and it seems you do, I would urge you to make a separate post and suggest it.

@nebelungpixie9373 2 года назад

Oh, “Lover’s Cross” ❤️❤️❤️ How could I have not suggested that one !!! Got me out of a very bad relationship. That was my “wake-up” song.

@barryshapiro3349 2 года назад

It’s pronounced Crow-chee. “Operator” and “Time In A Bottle” were beautiful big hits.He died in a plane crash in the early 70s.

@clauden780 Год назад

No it's Cro-che, not Crow-chee. He's of Italian descent.

@DG2244 2 года назад

His "time in a bottle" is timeless.

@joelliebler5690 2 года назад

Sang it in my high school choir and loved it ever since!

@Cat-fi4ie 2 года назад

He is definitely a folk 70 artist. Operator is another great Song AWESOME reaction

@RonRezendes 2 года назад

Every single song on his album Photographs and Memories is great! It is one of those albums so good that I've owned it on 8 track, vinyl, cassette (twice), and CD. RIP Jim.

@jenniferd.w.357 2 года назад

My mom has severe dementia, she can't remember her name or mine most days. However, when I go visit with her I will play all of these songs and she comes alive and knows every word and sings along and for a little bit is her old self. Music is magic

@ManicSalamander 2 года назад

I think Amber will like all of Jim Croce. Everything is straight from the heart, and either funny or sweet. All folk rock, catchy and well done.

@foxbat1766 11 месяцев назад

The Piano takes this song to a whole new level...!

@waynefurrow845 2 года назад

I think his best song was "Time in a Bottle", Jim Croce (Crow-Chee) was a great story teller, you could also check out "Don't Mess with Jim", or "Operator", but if Amber wants to hear his best vocals, then "Time in a Bottle" is the way to go. Another contemporary story teller was Harry Chapin, and "Cats in the Cradle" would be a good song to sample from him.

@topherwhite370 2 года назад

“Time in a bottle” and “operator” are good heart-yankers The ultimate story telling - “the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” by Gordon lightfoot. You will cry.

@danwhitehousepc 2 года назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hgI8bta-7aw.html

@otisroseboro5613 2 года назад

Rip to a great Singer & songwriter Jim Croce we still miss you

@bjw0515 10 месяцев назад

I love Jim Croce! You need to listen to Queen's tribute to him, Bring Back That Leroy Brown. Thank you for all your reactions!

@Shrykespeare 2 года назад

Such a loss to the world, when he died at age 30 in a plane crash. But he left his mark for all time. What a great storyteller. For your next song, if you want something upbeat, definitely do "You Don't Mess Around With Jim". If you want something slow, "Time in a Bottle". And you were close, Amber... it's pronounced "CROW-chee" not "CROW-chay". As for the character of Leroy Brown, I don't think it was based on an actual person... according to Wiki, Jim was inspired to write this song by a friend he knew briefly when in the Army.

@jameshelm2847 2 года назад

Patrick, if you watch the the video of Jim Croce on the Dick Cavett show, Jim pronounces his name as "CROW-chay" when Dick Cavett asked him how it is pronounced. So I will say it the way the person whose name it is says it.

@Shrykespeare 2 года назад

@@jameshelm2847 Huh. I stand corrected. Thanks. I guess I just got brainwashed by radio DJ's as a kid who pronounced it wrong. :)

@keithosmond5730 2 года назад

I've always heard it as "CROW-chay". Including when watching him appear on TV shows at the time.

@jameshelm2847 2 года назад

@@Shrykespeare I was the same way until about a year ago.

@TwistedSither 2 года назад

Jim Croce is one of my all-time favorites. Operator, You Don't Mess Around With Jim, Time In a Bottle, Lover's Cross, Photographs and Memories... you can't pick a bad Jim Croce song.

@jayakers708 2 года назад

Say it again, "you can't pick a bad Jim Croce song."

@emilyefinke 2 года назад

Amber, you have such a good ear! You are exactly right. Jim Croce's music is in the genre "Folk-Rock". Some other singers in that genre are Simon & Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, and Gordon Lightfoot. I second what some other commenters are suggestion, "Operator", "I Got A Name", "I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song", and "New York’s Not My Home" are some really superb songs that you should give a listen to sometime. Jim Croce was an amazingly special and unique artist that was taken much too soon.

@RuthKing-wm9nw 2 месяца назад

So sad when we lost him...all of us would always laugh and sing along with this one but he had some sweet songs too already comented on.

@GrumpyOldGuyPlaysGames 2 года назад

They don't make singer/songwriters like Jim Croce anymore. He was unique. I grew up listening to his music (my father was a fan), and he loomed large in my musical life.

@kennethgrainger1112 2 года назад

They are still out there. David Wilcox is one.

@GrumpyOldGuyPlaysGames 2 года назад

@@kennethgrainger1112 Opinions differ.

@jasonremy1627 2 года назад

You've got to check out "Operator" by him. It's beautiful. Sadly, Jim Croce and his guitarist Maury Meuhleisen died in a plane crash fairly early in his career. Tragic.

@dunringill1747 2 года назад

Jim Croce (Crow-Chee) was a rising star we lost far too soon. He wrote and dedicated "Time in a Bottle" for his 3 year old boy. The filming of the official video for "Time in a Bottle" video shows him playing with his boy. That was just 3 weeks before the fatal plane crash.

@rpmartin1886 2 года назад

His boy, AJ Croce, is all grown now and has an incredible musical talent of his own, very different than dad’s. Fantastic stuff.

@catherinehammer8637 2 года назад

Jim Croce...”Photographs and Memories”. This song never fails to make me cry. ❤️😢

@deonneparrish9850 2 года назад

He was one of those great storytelling songwriter/singers. Don't Mess with Jim is another fun song of his but my favorite songs his are Operator, I'll have to say I Love You In a Song and Time in a Bottle. Though no song of his is a bad choice. Another storytelling singer/songwriter you might like is Dan Fogelberg - Believe in Me, Longer and Leader of the Band are good to start with.

@snorelacks7069 2 года назад

Dan Fogelberg would be great.

@sherriejefferys5255 2 года назад

Dan folgerburg leader of the band!❤❤❤❤❤

@justmoose6534 2 года назад

Dan Fogelberg was my late wife's favorite. Leader of the Band is a great tune about his dad. Great choice.

@barblibrarian 2 года назад

Leader of the band always reminds me of my father and brings a tear to my eye. What a beautiful song. One of my favorites.

@silverrose4065 2 года назад

Definite yes for Dan Folgelberg. I would also suggest Run for the Roses, and Same Old Lang Syne.

@algiehoosier5165 2 года назад

Finally found some Jim Croche. Other songs by this great man are, “Time in a bottle, I gotta name.”

@markvollmer4021 2 года назад

He's one of my favorite all time storytelling singers. "I Got a Name" is very inspirational - he doesn't have much but he has his name. Plus all the other Croce tunes your subscribers have mentioned. 🙂

@markrichards6863 7 месяцев назад

For me it's "Operator", that song still hits me right where it hurts. The man was a genius weaving words and melody together, a very unique talent that could draw I music lovers from lot of backgrounds. There is no one who does that today

@bevil4aday 2 года назад

I Got a Name and Photographs & Memories are 2 of my favorite Croce songs.

@DwayneShaw1 2 года назад

Jim Croce (crow-she) - "You Don't Mess Around With Jim" - "Rapid Roy" - "Roller Derby Queen" If you want to explore different aspects of his voice, try "I've Got A Name" - "Operator" - "Photographs And Memories" - If you like storytellers check out Robert Earl Keen, "The Road Goes On Forever And The Party Never Ends" - or, "Pancho and Lefty"

@wnsafford1854 2 года назад

Jim pronounced it Crow-chee. Here's a vid that starts off with him saying his name; ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WNPbavw50T8.html

@DJHolte 2 года назад

@@wnsafford1854 Thanks for that -- I don't think I've ever heard him say his own name before... but that's pretty irrefutable evidence! :-)

@wnsafford1854 2 года назад

@@DJHolte You're most welcome. Should settle any debate.

@alanwhetstone3922 2 года назад

One of the greatest storytellers gone to soon

@johnw8578 Год назад

This played on the radio so much when I was a little little kid about 4 or 5 years old. We thought it was very funny cause he sung "damn town". Hearing this now pulls me right back into the 1970s.

@ellenfagan4338 2 года назад

One of my favorite tunes as a child, listening to it with my little transistor clamped to my ear. Croce was a huge gift to folk/rock music. Seeing your joy brings me so much happiness! 👍❤️🎵

@tahliasgoddaddy 2 года назад

Time in a Bottle. You Don't Mess Around With Jim. Working at the Carwash Blues. Photographs and Memories. Box Number 10. Rapid Roy. The list goes on and on. All are great Jim Croce songs.

@Bear78420 2 года назад

Yay!! Someone else added box #10!! My personal favorite 😁

@tahliasgoddaddy 2 года назад

One of my favorites also, along with one I forgot to mention, New York's Not My Home.

@vetti2u 2 года назад

Reiterating what everyone else is for sure saying, other great songs by Jim Croce are: ~ Operator ~ Time In A Bottle ~ I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song

@jerseygirl7327 Месяц назад

My Father loved this song.... always reminds me of my Father ..❤❤❤ I love Jim Croce .. I was about 4 or 5 years old when I heard this song.

@cyntheazeni3421 4 месяца назад

I was very young when Jim Croce died but I remember my Mom crying, he was one of her favorite artists.

@alanwhetstone3922 2 года назад

"Time in a bottle" is top 5 greatest love song

@afordhere75126 2 года назад

Time in a Bottle and Operator by him. Different tempo but amazing songs

@ellis211 2 года назад

You Don't Mess Around With Jim. Another Jim Croce song about a bad dude.....awesome 🙂

@michelleboyer9506 Год назад

His voice is distinctive. As soon as you hear him you know it’s him singing.

@joannevincent2035 2 года назад

Give a listen to the finest love songs ever - "Operator", "Time In a Bottle", "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song" (among others). Rest in peace Jim and Maury (backup singer and guitarist). Both died in a Louisiana plane crash in Sept., 1973.

@mikec8328 2 года назад

Another singer/guitarist you might want to check out is Johnny Rivers. His hits are Memphis, Poor Side of Town, Secret Agent Man (from a 60's tv show), Seventh Son, Mountain of Love, Summer Rain, Rockin Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu (it's a good one, promise!)

@kenshumaker5962 2 года назад

MacArthur Park is another great song

@ronhall5395 2 года назад

Jim was an awesome story teller. He paints an awesome picture. " Operator" is also a good song.

@charleserickson8119 2 года назад

My Favorite by him, is "I Got A Name".

@kathyastrom1315 2 года назад

Time in a Bottle is an amazing song by him!!

@summersands8105 2 года назад

So glad you got around to listening to Jim Croce (crochee - the "o" is long and the "c" ch with the long e). Listen to as much of him as you can. All of his songs are awesome. Time in a Bottle is another really good one. He got raked over the coals by the company he originally signed with for his music. There was a major lawsuit a number of years back and his family finally won the royalty right to his music back.

@shelleybleu4903 2 года назад

Nope crow chay

@summersands8105 2 года назад

@@shelleybleu4903 Nope, it's Cro-chee...do your research. His friends tell it best... Carol Briglia, lives in The United States of America (1945-present) Cro-ch-ee. The c in Italian is pronounced ch. In fact he was my childhood friend. ce and ci in a lot of the romance languages is pronounced ch. It's like the Russian name Sasa (Alexander). Eveyone wants to say sah sah, it's Sasha.

@stephenscott5718 2 года назад

"If I could put time in a bottle The first thing that I'd like to do Is to save every day 'till eternity passes away Just to spend them with you" "Time In A Bottle" has got to be one of the most romantic songs ever written !!!💗 "Operator" "Don't Mess Around With Jim" and "I Know My Name" are also good songs by him. He passed away to young. 😃

@lakelili 2 года назад

A huge favourite!

@bigmike2464 Год назад

He wrote it when his wife yold him she was pregnant

@richardtaylor8595 2 года назад

Love Jim Croce. Time in a bottle is great as well.

@JohnIckesshadowcat 2 года назад

"Time in a Bottle," "Operator," and "Don't Mess Around with Jim." are all great songs of his.

@lumariadp 2 года назад

"Leroy looked like a jigsaw puzzle with a couple of pieces gone" is in my personal top 5 lyrics ever.

@ricklee4884 2 года назад

Lol oh he got his but kicked lol

@ClickToPreview 2 года назад

Right!

@saturninojosesuarezquintan7476 2 года назад

No matter how bad you can be, always is someone worst or just you have a bad day.

@geoffelder2236 Год назад

@lumariadp One of my favorite lyrics from a song is from Player's "Baby Come Back": "All day long wearing a mask of false bravado; trying to keep up a smile that hides a tear." I'd love to know what your other four would be. (I have a tough time trying to come up with just five myself, but there's always more that come to mind when attempting to make my list!) Cheers!

@SRG1966 2 года назад

You'd love the entire album you got this track from. He was so good, I remember my aunts being heartbroken when he died.

@trudywolfe2795 2 года назад

It's about time you got to Croce. He's amazing.!!!!!

@surlechapeau 2 года назад

J&A, you'll love his "I Have To Say I Love You In Song", "Time In A Bottle", "I Got A Name", and "You Don't Mess Around With Jim". One of the great singer/songwriters, gone to soon.

@dagmar.6954 2 года назад

Another great folk rock singer songwriter who we lost so young. This is the music I grew up with. Unique storyteller & ballad singer. He touches your soul. He had a lot of great hits in his short career. "Photographs & Memories", "Time In A Bottle", "Operator", "You Don't Mess Around With Jim", "I Got A Name", "Workin' At The Car Wash Blues," "I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song" etc.

@dawngipe6324 2 года назад

photographs and memories for sure...all the rest you mentioned and dont forget, one less set of footsteps

@wynkelly1389 2 года назад

As a teen, In the 70s, I was SO in love with Jim! When I heard about his death,I felt like I imploded with grief!

@thisisscorpio6024 2 года назад

As a kid back then, I connected with this song. However, "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song" is my favorite. It is said he wrote this entire song in the early morning hours and surprised his wife when she woke-up. He never got to experience its success.

@christinehennessy9261 Год назад

this was played at my Grandma's funeral.. true story! She loved this song!

@jchow5966 Год назад

Awwwwww☮️💟

@geoffthomas3238 2 года назад

Good choice guys. This was one of the best singer songwriters of all times. Sadly by the time he was getting famous he dies in a plane crash and we were robbed of his talent going forward. I remember so vividly my mother and next door neighbors mom crying in our living room the day he died they were both big fans and had all his records. Operator, Time in a Bottle and I’ll have to say I Love you in a song….all good ones if you want more Croce

@TheTomt50 2 года назад

Jim Croce was an amazing artist. You need to check out "Operator."

@karylkline6442 2 года назад

Jim Croce was awesome. I was born in '63, LOVE the 70s

@5150crazyfun Год назад

Jim Croce was such an amazing singer and songwriter. And that voice was one of a kind. This song shows his ability to paint a picture with his smooth voice and lyrics.

@jamie8422 2 года назад

One of the absolute greatest songwriters ever. Check out "Lover's Cross" and "I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song". Thank you for sharing!! Love your vids!!

@eldoc2020 2 года назад

Time in a bottle is incredible. Operator is a surefire tear jerker.

@mvellis3863 2 года назад

Jim Croce was an amazing songwriter/singer and I used to have all his albums back in the 70's and was devastated when he died in a plane crash along with his friend and guitarist Maury Muehleisen. Croce had two types of writing styles, he wrote a lot of humorous character driven songs, like Bad Bad Leroy Brown, You Don't Mess Around With Jim, Rapid Roy That Stock Car Boy, Workin' At The Car Wash Blues, Roller Derby Queen, etc.. His other style were very serious, poignant love songs that could tear your heart out (Operator, Walkin' Back To Georgia, Time In A Bottle, New York's Not My Home, One Less Set of Footsteps, etc.). A talented and unique artist gone too soon.

@otrame 2 года назад

Don't Mess Around with Jim is my favorite of the "bad boy" songs.

@beeseewill2407 2 года назад

Jim is one of those folksy artist with a jazzy soulful side. Check out some of his soft stuff like"Time in a bottle",and "I've got a name." Jim left us way to soon.R.I.P. Jim Croce.

@Bekka_Noyb 2 года назад

such a fun song! ♥ I'd suggest his songs: You Don't Mess Around With Jim & Time In A Bottle

@dawnyoung8 20 дней назад

His greatest hits is a nugget of gold

@JTSWEENS1 2 года назад

Jim Croce… LEGEND!

@markpalfenier5851 2 года назад

HIS CLASSIC TUNE IS CALLED "TIME IN A BOTTLE " ONE OF THE BEST BALLADS LOVE SONGS AROUND! AND HIS LAST NAME IS PRONOUNCED CROECHY

@BigDaddyG65 2 года назад

Jim Croce itf is pronounced Crow-chee. Thanks for doing this song. His complete catalog is amazing. Way to short of life. Must hears are Operator, Time in a Bottle, Don't mess around with Jim, Working at the car wash blues, I got a name..... so many good songs, amazing story teller.

@CrimsonDeathBed 2 года назад

I'm 41, I was born after he died, this is the first artist I ever remember growing up. I listened to Jim Croce and got into music because of this, and this is also why I love lyrics like this. I could put on the Jim Croce discography and just listen all day.

@davidmarsden192 3 месяца назад

When I was very young, my family went to a cottage for a week (in 1972). I found a turtle that I caught and was taking care of. I loved him, and I called him "Leroy Brown". When we left the cottage we went down to the lake, and I let Leroy back into the lake. I still remember him swimming away. It was a sad and happy memory. The baddest turtle in the whole damn lake!

@richardmartin9565 2 года назад

Jim Croce was a great songwriter

@austinfallen 2 года назад

If you haven’t done it already, his “time in a bottle” will get you crying, in a lovely way

@yadaroni 2 года назад

One of my ALL TIME favorite artists.

@toddhutchins2492 2 года назад

Operator and You Don't Mess Around With Jim are two of my favorites. Jim has so much great music.

@limperial 2 года назад

"Operator" , "I'll have to say I love you in a song", "Lover's Cross", "TIme in a Bottle" are just the tip of the iceberg of Jim Croce's songwriter talent.

@ParkerAllen2 2 года назад

Instead of folk, a better word for Jim Croce's style would be singer-songwriter. That was the name put on a whole lot of great singers who wrote their own music in the early 1970s. They tended to use acoustic instruments and have an unvarnished, pure style that's making you think of folk music.

@DJHolte 2 года назад

I agree that's a better term, but there's definitely a folk influence in his music, as there is a country/western influence, imo. But Jim took whatever elements that inspired him and sort of created something new out of it. As someone else here said, one can't help but wonder what sort of music he might be making today, were he still alive. Would his sound have continued to evolve into something completely different? There's only one thing we can be sure of, we were robbed of something great when he died.

@michaelknight2118 2 года назад

Love it,Jordan, just a song. Jim Croce was way talented,Operator, will make you cry, in a good way.Don't Mess With Jim, classic.

@therealrobschroeder 2 года назад

One of the best of all time, and would LOVE to see a biopic.

@williameisenman9008 2 года назад

Time in a Bottle. Slow, soulful. Filled with emotions.

@EcclesiasticusRex 2 года назад

Wow. I thought y'all had gotten to this one already. But Jim Croce is great. He was one of those people from whom song lyrics just flowed as naturally as breathing. Find his whole catalogue or discography. And from there, try Cat Stevens. Cheers.

@marcgustafson6015 2 года назад

Working At The Car Wash Blues is a must! Jim Croce was prolific in his short career.... Man, he wrote some tear jerkers too. Especially, Time in a Bottle!

@clarencerishworth3488 Год назад

"Can I Change My Mind" - Tyrone Davis. R + B with a great story telling.

@elizabethfranco1284 2 года назад

Time in a Bottle, Don’t Mess around with Jim. My favorite story telling songwriters. I loved singing this with my friends

@johnvancoller7315 2 года назад

He has a great voice. You need to listen to more of his songs 🎵

@scottallen3698 2 года назад

Hear Time in bottle..will bring you tears. Don't mess around w Jim another excellent story song

@Maria-nw6ik 2 года назад

Croce's inspiration for the song was a friend he met in his brief time in the US Army: I met him at Fort Dix, New Jersey. We were in lineman (telephone) school together. He stayed there about a week, and one evening he turned around and said he was really fed up and tired. He went AWOL, and then came back at the end of the month to get his paycheck. They put handcuffs on him and took him away. Just to listen to him talk and see how 'bad' he was, I knew someday I was gonna write a song about him.

@erickyoung8331 2 года назад

Operator, Time in a Bottle, and I Got a Name are three great songs from Croce that show more of his singing, but all his songwriting and storytelling in his lyrics is aces, no matter the song. (Although I Got a Name wasn't one he wrote just performed, the other two he wrote as well.) Sadly he was another artist that died far too young, but he still left a great legacy.