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"You Don't Mess Around with Jim" is a 1972 strophic (all verses have the same tune) story song by Jim Croce from his album of the same name. [3] It was Croce's debut single, released on ABC Records as ABC-11328. ABC Records promotion man Marty Kupps took it to KHJ 930 AM in Los Angeles, CA where it first aired. It made the KHJ "30" chart (at ...
The record spent 93 weeks on the charts, longer than any other Jim Croce album. Due to the strong performance of the posthumous single release "Time in a Bottle" (#1 pop, No. 1 AC), You Don't Mess Around with Jim was the best selling album in the U.S. for five weeks in early 1974. [5] It was listed at No. 6 on the 1974 Cash Box year-end album ...
Cash Box described the lyrics saying that "in James Taylor fashion, Jim Croce tries to track down his long lost lover with the help of the operator." [3] The song relates one side of a conversation with a telephone operator. The speaker is trying to find the phone number of his former lover, who has moved to Los Angeles with his former best friend.
"My Toot Toot", also popularly known as "Don't Mess with My Toot Toot" or "(Don't Mess with) My Toot Toot", is a song written by Sidney Simien and performed by him under his stage name Rockin' Sidney. Simien wrote the song and released it on the Maison de Soul Records label in Ville Platte, Louisiana.
"Don't Mess with Bill" is a song recorded by the Marvelettes for Motown Records' Tamla label. [1] Written and produced by Smokey Robinson, "Don't Mess with Bill" features a lead vocal by Wanda Young. The single peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1966, and at number three on Billboard's R&B singles chart. "Don't Mess ...
The lyrics for the title track were written eight years earlier, before she was signed to her label. It was the song that got her signed. Maguire included "Don't Mess Me Around" on the EP in order to go back to the beginning, before the fame and the fall. [4] "Boomerang" uses hip-hop beats and a gospel spike, "Dream Big" provides inspiration ...
An SMS scam targeting road tolls has resurfaced, claiming people owe money for unpaid bills.. An example of the scam text people may receive reads as follows: "Pay your FastTrak Lane tolls by ...
"She Don't Love You" contains an interpolation of "Betcha She Don't Love You" by Evelyn King. "Don't Mess with Me" contains a sample of "Heartbreaker" by Pat Benatar and "Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell. "Right Now" contains a sample of "Break for Love" by Vaughn Mason and an interpolation of "Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega.