NEW YORK’S NOT MY HOME
JIM
CROCE
SONGWRITER: JIM CROCE
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: YOU DON’T MESS AROUND WITH JIM
LABEL: ABC RECORDS
GENRE: FOLK ROCK
YEAR: 1972
James Joseph Croce (/ˈkroʊtʃi/;
January 10, 1943 – September 20, 1973) was an American folk and rock
singer-songwriter. Between
1966 and 1973, Croce released five studio albums and numerous singles.
His
first two albums were commercially unsuccessful, failing to chart or produce
any hit singles. During this period, Croce took a series of odd jobs to pay
bills while he continued to write, record, and perform concerts. After
forming a partnership with songwriter and guitarist Maury Muehleisen his fortunes turned in the early 1970s. His breakthrough came in
1972; his third álbum You Don't Mess Around with Jim produced
three charting singles, including "Time in a Bottle",
which reached No. 1 after his death. The follow-up album, Life and Times, contained the song "Bad,
Bad Leroy Brown", which was the only No. 1
hit he had during his lifetime.
On September 20, 1973, the day before the
lead single to his fifth album, I Got a
Name, was released, Croce, along with five
others, was killed in a plane crash, at the height of his popularity. Croce's music continued to chart
throughout the 1970s following his death. His wife,
Ingrid Croce,
was his early songwriting partner and she continued to write and record after
his death, and his son A. J. Croce himself became a singer-songwriter in the 1990s.
"You Don't Mess Around with Jim" is
a 1972 single by Jim Croce from his album of the same name. The
song was also Croce's debut single when it was released in June 1972 on ABC
Records as ABC-11328. The song first aired on KHJ 930 AM in Los Angeles when ABC
Records promotion man Marty Kupps took the
single to the radio station, where it appeared on the KHJ "30" chart
at number 27 during the week of June 6. After spending 11 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the song peaked at No. 8 on the week ending September 9.
Croce performed the song on American
Bandstand on August 12, 1972. Billboard ranked
it as the No. 68 song for 1972.
Things were spinnin' 'round me
And all my thoughts were cloudy
And I had begun to doubt all the things that were me
Been in so many places, you know I've run so many races
Looked into the empty faces of the people of the night
Somethin' is just not right
'Cause I know that
I've gotta get outta here
I'm so alone
Don't you know that I gotta get outta here
'Cause New York's not my home
Though all the
streets are crowded
There's somethin' strange about it
I lived there 'bout a year and I never once felt at home
I thought I'd make the big time
I learned a lot of lessons awfully quick
And now I'm tellin' you that they were not the nice kind
It's been so long since I have felt fine
That's the reason
that I've gotta get outta here
I'm so alone
Don't you know that I gotta get outta here
'Cause New York's not my home
That's the reason
that I've gotta get outta here
I'm so alone
Don't you know that I gotta get outta here
'Cause New York's not my home.
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