You Don't Mess Around With Jim
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).
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