jim croce wrote you don't mess around with jim.
jim croce wrote you don't mess around with jim.
who wrote you don't mess around with jim?
jim croce
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you don't mess around with jim is the third studio album by american singer-songwriter jim croce, released in 1972.









































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the album was recorded over a three to four week period for approximately $18,000, with most funding coming from the polygram group in baarn, the netherlands on the basis of hearing an 8-song demo tape assembled by production team cashman & west. the deal with polygram was made after team attorney phil kurnit approached a contact within the record company who then had polygram executives to listen to the demo tape.
you don't mess around with jim
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"mess around", written by atlantic records president and founder ahmet ertegün under the pseudonym of "a. nugetre", or ""nuggy"", was one of ray charles’s first hits. ertegün claims his inspiration for writing "mess around" was pete johnson. 









































earlier versions of the tune, a new orleans boogie piano riff, can be heard throughout the early 1930s and 1940s the earliest of all being "cow cow blues" from charles "cow cow" davenport in 1928. dr john has spoken about the origin of this tune on his "dr john teaches new orleans piano" series of dvds.
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