You Don't Mess Around with Jim

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You Don't Mess Around with Jim
Studio album by Jim Croce
Released	May 1972
Recorded	1971-1972, The Hit Factory, New York City
Genre	Folk rock
Length	65:49
Label	ABC
Producer	Terry Cashman, Tommy West
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Jim Croce chronology
Jim & Ingrid Croce (1969) You Don't Mess Around with Jim (1972) Life & Times (album) (1973)

You Don't Mess Around with Jim is an album by American singer-songwriter Jim Croce, released in 1972 (See 1972 in music). The title track (Pop #8) and "Time in a Bottle" (Pop #1) are two of his most identifying songs. The lyrics of the title track concerns the fate of a 'pool-shooting son-of-a-gun' by the name of 'Big' Jim Walker when his 'mark' from a south Alabama Honkytonk shows up to get a refund from being hustled or get revenge. The song is notable for the line "You don't tug on Superman's cape/You don't spit into the wind/You don't pull the mask off the ol' Lone Ranger/And you don't mess around with Jim"

Contents 1 Covers 2 Track listing 3 Personnel 4 Production 5 Charts 6 External links

[edit] Covers

The song "You Don't Mess Around with Jim" was covered by Poison on the album Look What the Cat Dragged In.

[edit] Track listing

All songs by Jim Croce

1. "You Don't Mess Around with Jim" – 3:02
2. "Tomorrow's Gonna Be a Brighter Day" – 2:57
3. "New York's Not My Home" – 3:10
4. "Hard Time Losin' Man" – 2:29
5. "Photographs and Memories" – 2:09
6. "Walkin' Back to Georgia" – 2:53
7. "Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)" – 3:50
8. "Time in a Bottle" – 2:29 (Listen (help·info))
9. "Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy)" – 2:46
10. "Box #10" – 2:27
11. "A Long Time Ago" – 2:23
12. "Hey Tomorrow" – 2:47

[edit] Personnel

• Jim Croce - guitar, rhythm guitar, vocals, background vocals
• The Briggs - background vocals
• Terry Cashman - vocals, background vocals
• Tommy West - bass, percussion, piano, rhythm guitar, keyboards, electric piano, vocals, background vocals

[edit] Production

• Producers: Terry Cashman, Tommy West
• Photography: Paul Wilson

[edit] Charts

Billboard Music charts - North America

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1974	Pop Albums	1

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1972	"You Don't Mess Around with Jim"	Pop Singles	8
1972	"Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)"	Pop Singles	17
1973	"Time in a Bottle"	Pop Singles	1
1973	"Time in a Bottle"	Adult Contemporary	1

[edit] External links

• "Time in a Bottle" music video with lyrics

Preceded by The Singles: 1969-1973 by The Carpenters

Billboard 200 number-one album January 12 - February 15, 1974

Succeeded by Planet Waves by Bob Dylan