Jim Croce

Congratulations.

Does it have a name or is it like, you know, Jim Croce, I have a name or are you going to keep it as a surprise?

Well, because I'm not smoking Cubans anymore, this can't be a Cuban.

Oh, so it's a Davidoff.

right?

Jim Croce.

Jim Croce.

Now I've got to look it up.

We're going to end on baseball.

Talk about Michigan, Oklahoma.

If I could turn back time by share back in time by Huey Lewis in the news time after time by Cindy Lopper time in a bottle by Jim Croce and time by pink Floyd L L peace TC.

Thank you, TC.

Great stuff.

So the sort of popular version of this story that you'll see floating around the internet is... is that this song was written about Nicki in the first place.

But Frank Sinatra was covering a song by Jim Croce.

Yeah.

And he wrote it about a guy he met in the US Army years ago.

Apart from anything else, it's on an album of other covers that Sinatra recorded that were songs that were released during his brief retirement in the 1970s.

I think the album is called like songs that act like great songs that I missed or something.

And bad, bad Leroy Brown had gone to number one on the US charts when Jim Croce sang it.

And so Frank Sinatra, when he came out of his brief retirement, was like, oh, that's a great song.

We had a lot of folk singers, a lot of folk artists that were considered country.

So my country was a lot of, uh, you know, Joni Mitchell, uh, you know, Jim Croce to me was country.

Uh, The Carpenters were considered country to me.

Uh, Willie Nelson and, and Kris Kristofferson, and even Elvis, you know? So it was kind of odd that I...