| "Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)" | ||||
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| Single by Jim Croce | ||||
| from the album You Don't Mess Around with Jim | ||||
| B-side | "Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy)" | |||
| Released | August 23, 1972[1] | |||
| Recorded | 1972 | |||
| Genre | Folk-pop[2] | |||
| Length | 3:50 | |||
| Label | ABC (USA) Vertigo (UK, Mexico) | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Jim Croce | |||
| Producer(s) | Terry Cashman, Tommy West | |||
| Jim Croce singles chronology | ||||
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"Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)" is a 1972 song written by Jim Croce. Croce's record was released on August 23, 1972. It was the second single released from Croce's album You Don't Mess Around with Jim. It reached a peak of number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1972, spending twelve weeks on the chart.
- ^ Dean, Maury (2003). Rock 'n Roll: Gold Rush : a Singles Un-cyclopedia. Maxwell Hunter Publishing. p. 235.
- ^ Breithaupt, Don; Breithaupt, Jeff (October 15, 1996). "Earth Shoes: Folk Pop". Precious and Few - Pop Music in the Early '70s. St. Martin's Griffin. p. 78. ISBN 031214704X.