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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. ==Album History and Release== 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. After having the finished album rejected by up to 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. 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.〔Whitburn, Joel. ''The Billboard Book of Top Pop Albums 1955-1985'', Record Research Inc., 1985, p. 88, 505.〕 It was listed at #6 on the 1974 ''Cash Box'' yearend album charts.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/70s_files/1974YEAP.html )〕 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 issued on CD by the Rhino Flashbacks record label on September 30th, 2008. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「You Don't Mess Around with Jim」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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