I Got a Name

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I Got a Name
Studio album by Jim Croce
Released	December 1973
Recorded	The Hit Factory, New York City
Genre	Folk rock
Length	30:57
Label	ABC
Producer(s)	Terry Cashman, Tommy West
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Jim Croce chronology
Life & Times (1973)	I Got a Name (1973)	Down the Highway (1975)

I Got a Name is an album by American singer-songwriter Jim Croce, released in 1973 (See 1973 in music). It features the ballad "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song."

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Personnel 3 Production 4 Song writing 5 Charts

[edit] Track listing

1. "I Got a Name" (Fox, Gimbel) - 3:09
2. "Lover's Cross" (Croce) - 3:02
3. "Five Short Minutes" (Croce) - 3:32
4. "Age" (Croce) - 3:44
5. "Workin' at the Car Wash Blues" (Croce) - 2:29
6. "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song" (Croce) - 2:28
7. "Salon and Saloon" (Muehleisen) - 2:30
8. "Thursday" (Joseph) - 2:20
9. "Top Hat Bar and Grille" (Croce) - 2:48
10. "Recently" (Croce) - 2:31
11. "The Hard Way Every Time" (Croce) - 2:24

[edit] Personnel

• Jim Croce - guitar, vocals
• Leroy Brown - vocals
• George Devens - percussion
• Steve Gadd - drums
• Ellie Greenwich - vocals
• Michael Kamen - synthesizer
• Joe Macho - bass
• Rick Marotta - drums
• Bobby Matos - percussion
• Terence P. Minogue - strings, vocals
• Maury Muehleisen - guitar, vocals
• Marty Nelson - vocals
• Alan Rolnick - guitar, vocals
• Tasha Thomas - vocals
• Tommy West - bass, keyboards, vocals
• Stu Woods - bass

[edit] Production

• Producers: Terry Cashman, Tommy West

[edit] Song writing

Croce's wife Ingrid has an autobiographical cookbook, Thyme In A Bottle, in which she writes interesting anecdotes about Jim. Here's what she wrote about "I'll Have To Say 'I Love You' in a Song": "One weekend, after being on the road for many months, Jim got a chance to come home to relax with his family. We settled in to enjoy our time alone together. Though Jim was expecting company the next day, avoiding confrontation he never told me that we were to be joined by an entire film crew! The next morning, 15 people from Acorn Productions descended upon our house to record a promotional film of Jim Croce at Home on the Farm.

I prepared breakfast, lunch and dinner for the whole film crew and after the group left, I questioned Jim about our finances. After a year and a half of his working so very hard on the road, we were barely making ends meet, but Jim wouldn't talk about it. He hated questions as much as he hated confrontation, especially about money. He stormed out of our bedroom and went down to the kitchen table to brood. The next morning he woke me gently by singing his new song. "Every time I tried to tell you the words just came out wrong. So I'll have to say I love you, in a song." [[1]]

[edit] Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1974	Pop Albums	2

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1973	"I Got a Name"	Adult Contemporary	4
1973	"I Got A Name"	Pop Singles	10
1974	"Workin' at the Car Wash Blues"	Pop Singles	32
1974	"I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song"	Pop Singles	9