One Less Set of Footsteps

"One Less Set of Footsteps"
Single by Jim Croce
from the album Life and Times
B-side	"It Doesn't Have to Be That Way"
Released	January 8, 1973[1]
Recorded	1972
Genre	Folk rock
Length	2:46
Label	ABC
Songwriter(s)	Jim Croce
Producer(s)	Terry Cashman, Tommy West
Jim Croce singles chronology
"Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)" (1972) "One Less Set of Footsteps" (1973) "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" (1973)

"One Less Set of Footsteps" is a song written and performed by Jim Croce. It was released in 1973 as the first single from his album Life and Times. It reached a peak of #37 on the Billboard Hot 100, spending ten weeks on the chart.