I Got a Name

Infobox Album
Name = I Got a Name
Type = Studio album
Artist = Jim Croce


Released = September 21, 1973
Recorded = The Hit Factory, New York City
Genre = Folk rock
Length = 30:57
Label = ABC
Producer = Terry Cashman, Tommy West
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:lyd9kent7q7x~T1 link]
*"Rolling Stone" (favorable) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/jimcroce/albums/album/148506/review/5940784/i_got_a_name link]
Last album = "Life & Times"
(1973)
This album = "I Got a Name"
(1973)
Next album = "Down the Highway"
(1975)

"I Got a Name" is an album by American singer-songwriter Jim Croce, released in 1973 (See 1973 in music). It features the ballad "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song", which reached #9 in the U.S. singles chart. Croce died in a plane crash just one day before the album's release.The title track was another posthumous hit, reaching #10 in the U.S. singles chart.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Jim Crose; except where indicated

#"I Got a Name" (Fox, Gimbel) - 3:09
#"Lover's Cross" - 3:02
#"Five Short Minutes" - 3:32
#"Age" - 3:44
#"Workin' at the Car Wash Blues" - 2:29
#"I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song" - 2:28
#"Salon and Saloon" (Maury Muehleisen) - 2:30
#"Thursday" (Joseph) - 2:20
#"Top Hat Bar and Grille" - 2:48
#"Recently" - 2:31
#"The Hard Way Every Time" - 2:24

Personnel

*Jim Croce - guitar, vocals
*Leroy Brown - vocals
*George Devens - percussion
*Steve Gadd - drums
*Ellie Greenwich - vocals
*Michael Kamen - synthesizer
*Joe Macho - bass
*Rick Marotta - drums
*Bobby Matos - percussion
*Terence P. Minogue - strings, vocals
*Maury Muehleisen - guitar, vocals
*Marty Nelson - vocals
*Alan Rolnick - guitar, vocals
*Tasha Thomas - vocals
*Tommy West - bass, keyboards, vocals
*Stu Woods - bass

Production

*Producers: Terry Cashman, Tommy West

ong writing

Croce's wife Ingrid has an autobiographical cookbook, Thyme In A Bottle, in which she writes interesting anecdotes about Jim. Here's what she wrote about "I'll Have To Say 'I Love You' in a Song": "One weekend, after being on the road for many months, Jim got a chance to come home to relax with his family. We settled in to enjoy our time alone together. Though Jim was expecting company the next day, avoiding confrontation he never told me that we were to be joined by an entire film crew! The next morning, 15 people from Acorn Productions descended upon our house to record a promotional film of Jim Croce at Home on the Farm.

I prepared breakfast, lunch and dinner for the whole film crew and after the group left, I questioned Jim about our finances. After a year and a half of his working so very hard on the road, we were barely making ends meet, but Jim wouldn't talk about it. He hated questions as much as he hated confrontation, especially about money. He stormed out of our bedroom and went down to the kitchen table to brood. The next morning he woke me gently by singing his new song. "Every time I tried to tell you the words just came out wrong. So I'll have to say I love you, in a song." [http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=5157]

Charts

Album

Singles [Hyatt, Wesley (1999). "The Billboard Book of #1 Adult Contemporary Hits" (Billboard Publications)]

References