"Who had 2 hit records in his short career, ""Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"" & ""Time in a Bottle""?"
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown the "Theme from Shaft". Bad, Bad Leroy Brown "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" is a song written by American folk rock singer Jim Croce. Released as part of his 1973 album "Life and Times", the song was a Number One pop hit for him, spending two weeks at the top of the "Billboard" Hot 100 in July 1973. "Billboard" ranked it as the No. 2 song for 1973. Croce was nominated for two 1973 Grammy awards in the Pop Male Vocalist and Record of the Year categories for "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown". It was his last number-one single before his death
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown bested in a fight is similar to that of Croce's earlier song "You Don't Mess Around With Jim." Croce's inspiration for the song was a friend he met in his brief time in the US Army: He told a variation of this story on "The Helen Reddy Show" in July 1973: Croce explained the chorus reference to Leroy Brown being "meaner than a junkyard dog": Professional wrestlers Junkyard Dog and Bad Leroy Brown used ring names inspired by the song. On Croce's final album, "I Got a Name", a "Leroy Brown" is credited as a backing vocalist. The song inspired