Favorite JIM CROCE song

[Bossy Monkey]

...and I flush away any hipness points I may have ever earned. I was not actually ever such a big fan, but have had a number of his songs running through my head in recent weeks for reasons I can't begin to understand. Anyway, for the person who thought the Supertramp poll was unhip, don't complain; I can still do the forever-threatened ELO one! :P

[Gadave]

1. I had to say Jim

After a bad day of spitting into the wind and tugging on super man's cape I learned my lesson.

[Piperay]

20. Was torn between 'Don't Mess Around with Jim'

and 'Bad Leroy Brown'...love em both but picked 'Don't Mess Around with Jim'. :shrug: :-)

[Bertha Venation]

2. He's the reason I became a guitarist.

So don't go lumping him in with the unhip. ;)

And I would love to own C.F. Martin's Jim Croce model.

[Bertha Venation]

15. I've been thinking about this guitar all day, now.

And the song, "Operator," among others.

Only 73 were made of each of the two models of Martin's Jim Croce guitar. Each instrument has a mint 1973 dime imbedded at the third fret (the "Operator" line: "and you can keep the dime.")

I was ten years old when he died and now, after thirty years, I still feel like I lost a mentor, a teacher and a friend.

Weird, I know.

[DODI]

24. I think my whole family stayed home from school that day.

I still cry when I think about it. I was 10 at the time too.

[Parrcrow]

3. My hippness can withstand it

So can yours undisclosedlocationB-) B-)

[hlthe2b]

4. Unhip? Why? Because he was more of a folk singer

than hard rocker? Croce was very talented and like Harry Chapin-- who also died far too young-- often produced songs with a real message. (This during a volatile time, when we really needed it).

RIP Mr Croce

[DODI]

5. Too many favorites

And he was/is very hip:

Five Short Minutes

Rapid Roy (the Stock Car Boy)

Hard Time Losin' Man

and so many others.

I will never forget seeing him on Soundstage. What a great performer.

[Rowdyboy]

6. I was best man at a outdoors, spring wedding where

"Time in a Bottle" was played. Perfection...

[proud patriot]

7. I picked "I got a name"

:thumbsup:

[ConcernedCanuk]

8. Jim was born 64 years ago on Jan 10 -

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I remember the summer he died, Sept. 20 1973, at the age of 30 in a plane crash

I made a choice of "Operator", but if I listened to all the albums I used to have, I may have chosen differently.

He DID write alot of great songs, so even with the short list posted, it was a hard choice...

in memory ...


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[nuxvomica]

9. I brought up the issue with the National Hipness Review Board

They said Jim Croce was OK but I'm not to say I heard it from them. That's what they say about everything, the damn poseurs.

[Bossy Monkey]

12. Just don't ask them about ELO n/t

[northzax]

10. Second the motion for Rapid Roy

since it's the only one that doesn't make me want to cry...

[dmr]

11. I woke up this morning with a Croce song in my head

" ... in a song..." Maybe because there was an infomercial on TV in the wee hours last night.

I voted "time in a bottle"

[camero]

13. You did a poll on Jim Croce without Cat's Cradle?

:shrug:

[fudge stripe cookays]

14. That's Harry Chapin, dear.

:)

[ConcernedCanuk]

18. Ahem ur both wrong, sorry, Cat's Cradle -Cat Stevens !!

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.

almost makes sense !!



oops, on edit :

Cat Stevens called an ALBUM Cat's Cradle,

and didn't write HARRY Chapin's song, - I stand corrected

:shrug: oh well!

[EstimatedProphet]

27. Isn't that "Cat's in the Cradle"?

Or am I wrong?

[camero]

19. oops

I thought they sounded alike. :)

[YellowRubberDuckie]

16. I know I'm going to get flamed for this, but...WHO?

[hlthe2b]

21. Hon... one thing you missed growing up when you did was some really

excellent music from the 60's and 70's. Particularly the folk and anti-war era musicians. Jim Croce died in a plane crash just as his career was really taking hold. Go listen to some of his music (or there is now a DVD of his career). Some of it was really powerful. I won a junior high school journalism award, by pairing Croce's "Time in a Bottle" to photos of VietNam attrocities-- including the famous photo of the nude girl fleeing after being Napalmed:

[Bossy Monkey]

25. I did the same thing at the same time with "Eve of Destruction"

by Barry McGuire. No awards since I didn't show it to anyone but my family, but it shows a) that great minds think alike, and b) what a shattering effect that war had on kids of the era.

[hlthe2b]

28. Yes.... I could not agree more!

"Eve of Destruction" would have been quite a good choice. "Time in a Bottle" was fairly subtle, but tended to pull the heartstrings-- at least for me.

[MrSlayer]

17. You don't mess around with SLIM!

Old Slim fucks Jim's world up.

[alwynsw]

22. Gotta go with "Rapid Roy, the Stock Car Boy"

He's too much to believe.
You know he's always got an extra pack of cigarettes
rolled up in his t-shirt sleeve

[alwynsw]

23. I have to add

There was an enormous amount of growth between his first album and his later work If you can listen to both sides, use "Time" as an example. The first cut of it on "Jim & Ingrid Croce" is almost chidlike in comparison to the later revision(s).

[EstimatedProphet]

26. Wow, really takes me back...

I was just hitting teens when Croce was big. Really miss all that stuff-Croce, Bread, Seals&Crofts, Cat Stevens...