Who here likes Jim Croce

[suginami]

My brother recently gave me the Jim Croce 50th Anniversay Collection, and I've been playing it ever since.

What a great singer / songwriter, yet you never hear his music played anymore, not even on the Oldies radio stations.

Listening to songs like New York's Not my Home, Photographs and Memories, and Operator just brings back memories of my early childhood.

[GottaDiesel]

Me. (Very much!)

[suginami]

Yeah, for some reason the soundtrack of my youth is found in Jim Croce's music, more so than any other musician.

[t walgamuth]

i never liked him all that much back then but i recently picked up one of his albums and was listening to it on my trip to wyoming. i think his stuff is really fine. it is amazing he did these kindof retrospective things when he was pretty young. they have kindof an experienced feel to them you would expect from an old fart.

tom w

[BENZ-LGB]

New York Is Not My Home, I've Got a Name and Lover's Cross are among my favorite Croce songs. He was one hell of a songwriter.

I was sad the day I found out he had been killed in an accident.

[diametricalbenz]

The only time I am aware of a Chinese person singing a Jim Croce song (Bad Bad Leroy Brown) was in "Sneakers". It's pretty funny too.

He also happened to be the guy who gets blown up by Rambo's exploding arrow in Rambo First Blood Part II.

So just in case you're on Jeopardy and Alex pulls that one, you're set.

[Botnst]

He died escaping from an impending drug bust in my hometown.

[Obnoxio]

Originally Posted by Botnst

He died escaping from an impending drug bust in my hometown.

Really?

[Botnst]

Yup. Rumor was that the pilot was so rushed by Croce's entourage that he failed to do a preflight and just jumped-in, cranked her up and flew.

Cop told me (small town). Cop said coke, others said evil devil weed and the coke thingy was just to make it sound important. They got to the airport as his plane was scooting up the runway.

[Mistress]

Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown- what's not to love? Randy Newman too- "Short People Got No Reason."

[TwitchKitty]

Working at the Carwash Blues

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/j/jim+croce/workin+at+the+car+wash+blues_20071487.html

Well, I had just got out from the county prison
Doin ninety days for non-support
Tried to find me an executive position
But no matter how smooth I talked
They wouldnt listen to the fact that I was a genius
The man say, we got all that we can use.
Now igot them steadily depressin, low down mind messin
Working at the car wash blues

Well, I should be sittin in an air conditioned office in a swivel chair
Talkin some trash to the secretaries
Sayin, here, now mama, come on over here.
Instead, Im stuck here rubbin these fenders with a rag
And walkin home in soggy old shoes
With them steadily depressin, low down mind messin
Workin at the car wash blues

You know a man of my ability
He should be smokin on a big cigar
But till I get myself straight I guess Ill just have to wait
In my rubber suit a-rubbin these cars

Well, all I can do is a shake my head
You might not believe that its true
For workin at this end of niagara falls
Is an undiscovered howard hughes
So baby, dont expect to see me
With no double martini in any high-brow society news
Cause I got them steadily depressin, low down mind messin
Workin at the car wash blues

[Jim B.]

Originally Posted by Siduri19

Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown- what's not to love? Randy Newman too- "Short People Got No Reason."

What next??!!! Anita Ward (?) "Ring My Bell", Paul Anka, "She's Having My Baby"? Some 70's stuff best REMAINS forgotten

Jim Croce was a GREAT songwriter though - "I've Got A Name" (Thanks Ernesto for reminding me of that one) immensely evocative, a perfectly rendered poem of hope and longing.

[Dee8go]

Originally Posted by Botnst

Yup. Rumor was that the pilot was so rushed by Croce's entourage that he failed to do a preflight and just jumped-in, cranked her up and flew.

Cop told me (small town). Cop said coke, others said evil devil weed and the coke thingy was just to make it sound important. They got to the airport as his plane was scooting up the runway.

What a price to pay to stay out of jail! I guess he's laughing at the cops now. Ah, ha! (Nelson laugh from the Simpsons)

[thorsen]

Originally Posted by Botnst

Yup. Rumor was that the pilot was so rushed by Croce's entourage that he failed to do a preflight and just jumped-in, cranked her up and flew.

According to the NTSB Accident Report, the pilot had coronary artery disease and ran the 3 miles from the hotel to the airport.

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=84416&key=0

[Cap'n Carageous]

Croce (or at least his family and record company) was lucky that he died young. His music was pretty dated and he would have aged disgracefully. I liked some of that stuff at the time, but in all fairness, it was a pretty crappy time for muzak across the board.