Your favorite Jim Croce song

[brentspeak]

(Jim Croce, just when his career was taking off, died in 1973 at the age of 30 when his plane went down in Natchitoches, La. Five other people were killed in that crash, including Jim's lead guitarist, Maury Muehleisen.)

[wildhorses]

1. also like the taxi song

cos she took off to find the footlights
and he took off to find the stars

something like that

I like the way he stuffed the bill in his shirt, too

:thumbsup:

[brentspeak]

2. You're thinking of Harry Chapin and his song "Taxi"

But I can understand the confusion; both Croce and Chapin were folk/pop singer/songwriters who died young in plane and auto accidents (respectively).

[wildhorses]

3. persactly...

DUH...where is the smacking forehead smilie when you need it?

[Radio_Lady]

11. Don't sweat it, wildhorses. We all make mistakes!

:banghead:

:loveya:

[lizziegrace]

4. One of the first 45's I ever bought

"Time in a Bottle". He was such a remarkable talent.

[mac56]

5. Loved everything he ever did.

My favorite, though, is "Thursday" off the "I Got A Name" LP.

[AlCzervik]

6. when i was growing up my Dad had a Teac reel to reel that was full

of Jim Croce, Neal Diamond, Joan Baez and Bruce Sprinsteen, the best stuff ever.

[driver8]

7. My Dad still has his reel to reel! (Never listens to it, though.)

That thing was great! Those tapes sure do hold a lot of music.

We didn't have Springsteen, ,but we had Jim Croce. Also had Merle Haggard, Charlie Pride, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, and Johnny Cash.

[AlCzervik]

8. My Dad still has his as well but it's down in the basement

i'm going back east for a visit this summer, i should bring it back with me because i would use it and i know he has the tapes hermetically sealed in a vault or a mayonnaise jar somewhere so i'm sure they'd still sound good.

[gmoney]

9. Other: "Workin' at the Car Wash Blues"

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 wouldn't listen to the fact that I was a genius
The man say, We got all that we can use.
Now I got 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 mam-ma, come on over here.
Instead, I'm 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 I'll 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 it's true
For workin' at this end of Niagara Falls
Is an undiscovered Howard Hughes
So baby, don't 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
Yeah, I got them steadily depressin', low down mind messin'
Workin' at the car wash blues

[Radio_Lady]

10. Miss him. I know it wasn't his song, but "only the good die young."

[bedazzled]

15. that's my favorite, too!

apropos for the times, theme-wise!

[6000eliot]

17. My favorite as well

along with "I Got a Name."

[Redstone]

12. Rapid Roy, that stock car boy, he don't know what fear's about,

he do a hundred-forty mile an hour, smilin' at the camera, with a toothpick in his mouth...

Redstone

[Redstone]

13. Dammit. I knew him, a little. Folk festival in Pennsylvania, I was a

nobody with an afternoon slot, and he was an evening headliner. We talked a bit in the warmup area. We smoked and chatted about how he had started out being Maury's guitarist, then found his voice and became the headliner.

He was a helluva guy.

Redstone

[Ava]

14. all his stuff is good

but ever since i was a little girl i went around singing "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"

still do sometimes! ;) :P

[Hissyspit]

16. My dad says I went around singing "Sitting On The Dock of the Bay"

...which is Otis Redding, of course.

Notable favorite songs from when I was less than nine years old, best as I remember:

"Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" B.J. Thomas
"Hitchin' A Ride" by Vanity Fare
"Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) by Edison Lighthouse

[me b zola]

20. Me too, I love all of his stuff

But I voted 'Bad, Bad Leroy Brown' cause my 7th grade history teacher used to sing it to me (my last name is brown and I had a bit of an attitude). "And she's bad, bad, *zola* brown, the baddest chick in the whole damn school..." :loveya:

Mr. Woods, if you're out there, I've never forgotten you :hi:

[Nicole]

18. Time In A Bottle n/t

[MrSlayer]

19. I like "You don't mess around with Jim"

And then Slim fucks him up. Good tune.