| "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" | ||||
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 Side A of the original US single | ||||
| Single by Jim Croce | ||||
| from the album Life and Times | ||||
| B-side | "A Good Time Man Like Me Ain't Got No Business (Singin' the Blues)" | |||
| Released | March 20, 1973 | |||
| Recorded | 1972 | |||
| Genre | Boogie-woogie[1] | |||
| Length | 3:02 | |||
| Label | ABC Vertigo (international) | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Jim Croce | |||
| Producer(s) | Terry Cashman, Tommy West | |||
| Jim Croce singles chronology | ||||
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| Audio | ||||
| "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" on YouTube | ||||
"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" is an uptempo, strophic story song written by American folk rock singer Jim Croce. Released as part of his 1973 album Life and Times, the song was a No. 1 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.[2]
Croce was nominated for two 1973 Grammy Awards in the Pop Male Vocalist and Record of the Year categories for "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown".[3] It was Croce's only number-one single before his death on September 20 of that year and his final single to be released during his lifetime.
- ^ Dolan, Jon; Menconi, David; Ryan, Linda; Harvilla, Rob; Aaron, Charles; Murray, Nick; Grow, Kory; Powell, Mike; Moss, Marissa R.; Fischer, Reed; Gehr, Richard; Eddy, Chuck. "50 Rock Albums Every Country Fan Should Own". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 2019-01-12. Retrieved 2019-01-11.
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- ^ The LA Times "The Envelope" awards database Archived September 25, 2009, at the Wayback Machine