I Got a Name (song)

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"I Got a Name"
Single by Jim Croce
from the album I Got a Name
B-side	"Alabama Rain"
Released	September 21, 1973
Genre	Folk rock
Length	3:11
Label	ABC
Songwriter(s)	Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel
Producer(s)	Terry Cashman, Tommy West
Jim Croce singles chronology
"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" (1973) "I Got a Name" (1973) "Time in a Bottle" (1973)

"I Got a Name" is a 1973 single recorded by Jim Croce with lyrics by Norman Gimbel and music by Charles Fox. It was the first single from his album of the same title and also Croce's first posthumous single, released the day after his death in a plane crash on September 20, 1973. The song reached a peak of #10 on the Billboard Hot 100, spending 17 weeks on the chart. It also hit #3 on the Cash Box Top 100.^[1]

While the single was released in September 1973, it was first heard as the theme song for the movie The Last American Hero, released in July 1973. It was later featured in the movies The Ice Storm, Invincible, Django Unchained, Logan and The Lego Ninjago Movie.