My Favorite Singer Jim Croce
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Jim Croce is my all time favorite singer and I thought it would be cool to make a mystery cache dedicated to his songs. The cache is placed near a camp near Papoose Pond it is placed with the permission of the camp owner. Winter friendly if you do not mind going through what ever snow is on the ground.
From Jim Croce.com and Wikipedia
Jim's Croce was born in 1943 in Philadelphia. His musical career started when he was five years old, learning to play "Lady of Spain" on the accordion. He didn't really take music too seriously until 1964, while he was attending Villanova College in Pennsylvania. There he formed various bands, doing fraternity parties and playing "anything that the people wanted to hear: blues, rock, acapella, railroad music...anything." One of those bands was chosen for a foreign exchange tour of Africa and the Middle East. He returned to Philadelphia and he had decided to be "serious."He Worked construction crews, welder, special education teacher and a brief career in the military and worked for some radio stations. Finally he decided to give his music a chance. He'd been playing some pretty tough bars ("I can still get my guitar off faster than anyone else"), then he and his wife, Ingrid, moved to New York and began working coffeehouses. They remained on the coffeehouse circuit for a year and a half, involving themselves in the music business and collecting guitars. But, they soon became discouraged by the agitation and pressures of city life, and moved to Lyndell, Pennsylvania, where they had their son, Adrian James. Jim, sold the guitars he had accumulated, one by one. When the guitars ran out, he worked construction again and did some studio work in New York. I kept thinking, 'maybe tomorrow I'll sing some words." His first album, You Don't Mess Around With Jim, was an instant success. Jim immediately became a top bill club and concert performer and the title song and "Operator" pulled from the album, were both highly successful singles. In 1972, Croce signed to a three-record deal with ABC Records and released two albums, You Don't Mess Around with Jim and Life and Times that same year. The singles "You Don't Mess Around with Jim", "Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)", and "Time in a Bottle" (written for his then-unborn son, A. J. Croce) all received airplay. Croce's biggest single, "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown", hit No. 1 on the American charts in July 1973. On September 20, 1973, shortly before his ABC single, "I Got a Name", was to be released, Croce, Muehleisen, and four others were killed in the crash of a chartered Beechcraft E18S upon takeoff from the, Louisiana. Croce had just completed a concert at Northwestern State University's Prather Coliseum in Natchitoches and was flying to Sherman, Texas, for a concert at Austin College, when the plane crashed about an hour after the end of the concert. The album I Got a Name was released on December 1, 1973. Croce had just finished recording the album barely over a week before his death. The posthumous release included three hits: "Workin' at the Car Wash Blues", "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song". The album reached No. 2 in the US Pop Albums chart, and "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song" reached No. 9 in the U.S. singles chart..
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Oh rapid roy that stock car boy
He too much too believe
You know he always got an extra pack of cigarettes
Rolled up in his t-shirt sleeve
He got a tattoo on his arm that say "baby"
He got another one that just say "hey"
And sunday afternoon he is a dirt track demon
In a 'AB chevrolet
Uptown got it's hustlers
The bowery got it's bums
CD street got big jim walker
He's a pool-shootin' son of a gun
Yeah, he big and dumb as a man can come
But he stronger than a country hoss
And when the bad folks all get together at night
You know they all call big jim "boss", just because
One day I looked into my rear-view mirror, and comin' up from behind
Was a Georgia state policeman, and a hundred dollar fine
Well, he looked me in the eye as he was writin' me up,he said, driver you been flyin'
And E5 was the route you was on, it was not the speed limit sign
She was 5 foot F and 2G5?A bleached-blonde mama?With a streak of mean?She knew how to knuckle?And she knew how to scuffle and fight. The roller derby program said she was build like a frigerator with a head, her fans called her Tuffy but all her buddies called her Spike
Now Leroy he a gambler?And he like his fancy clothes?And he like to wave his diamond rings
In front of everybody’s nose?He got a custom continental?He got an el dorado too.?He got a H2 gun in his pocket for fun
He got a razor in his shoe
Well, I had just got out from the county prison? Doin 9J for non-support?Tried to find me an executive position?But no matter how smooth I talked?They wouldnt listen to the fact that I was a genius?The man say, we got all that we can use.?Now i got them steadily depressin, low down mind messin?Working at the car wash blues
For K How may times is the phrase Cigarettes Whiskey and Wild Wild Women sang in this song
Location of the Cache
N CC. GH. BEC W JBJ. CD. AEA
FTF prize is a Jim Croce CD his Greatest Hits I did not want to leave it outside, so I will make arrangement with the FTF to get the CD to them.
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