Success With Jim Croce
In 1971, Cashman and West signed as artists with ABC-Dunhill and produced the first of three Jim Croce albums, You Don't Mess Around With Jim. Recorded in the fall of 1971 and released in April 1972, this album produced three hit singles. Simultaneously, Cashman and West were on the charts with their first single, their tribute to New York City, the "American City Suite."
In 1973, Cashman and West produced Croce's Life and Times and I Got A Name albums. They received five gold records for their work on Jim Croce’s hits - #1 singles "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" and "Time in a Bottle," and three albums (You Don’t Mess Around With Jim, Life and Times, and I Got A Name), all three now which have reached platinum status. Croce and Muehleisen perished in a small plane crash in Natchitoches, Louisiana on September 20, 1973.
Cashman and West went on to record two more albums for ABC-Dunhill, Moondog Serenade and Lifesong.
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