Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p You Don't Mess Around with Jim is an album by American singer-songwriter Jim Croce, released in 1972. It 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, #1 AC), "You Don't Mess Around with Jim" was the best selling album in the U.S. for five weeks in early 1974. It's listed at #6 on the 1974 Cash Box yearend album charts. Two singles were originally released from the album in 1972: the title track (#8 pop) and "Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)" (#17 pop). The album was recorded over a three to four week period for approx. $18,000 USD with 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. After having the finished album rejected by around 40 record labels, Croce was signed to ABC Records after Cashman & West had a chance meeting with ABC promotion man Marty Kupps who urged label head Jay Lasker to sign Croce after Kupps had heard cuts from a cassette tape of the finished album. The album was issued on CD by the Rhino Flashbacks record label on Sept. 30th 2008.. }
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- You_Don't_Mess_Around_with_Jim abstract "You Don't Mess Around with Jim is an album by American singer-songwriter Jim Croce, released in 1972. It 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, #1 AC), "You Don't Mess Around with Jim" was the best selling album in the U.S. for five weeks in early 1974. It's listed at #6 on the 1974 Cash Box yearend album charts. Two singles were originally released from the album in 1972: the title track (#8 pop) and "Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)" (#17 pop). The album was recorded over a three to four week period for approx. $18,000 USD with 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. After having the finished album rejected by around 40 record labels, Croce was signed to ABC Records after Cashman & West had a chance meeting with ABC promotion man Marty Kupps who urged label head Jay Lasker to sign Croce after Kupps had heard cuts from a cassette tape of the finished album. The album was issued on CD by the Rhino Flashbacks record label on Sept. 30th 2008.".