Serial #17! Out of print only 1 copy available! Warehouse find!
This Album presents a body of work which almost never saw vinyl light of day, yet became some of the most memorable hits of all time. Without exception, every major record company passed on the You Don't Mess Around With Jim LP. So producers Terry Cashman and Tommy West eventually pressured ABC to release the album since they recorded as Cashman & West for the company's Dunhill subsidary. Ironically, in the up, the classic "Operator" made him the critic's favorite. With the next album, Life & Times, the producers strategically released the 45 "One Less Set Of Footsteps" to help set-up the single "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" which when #1 and entrenched itself in American culture by coining the popular phrase "meaner than a junkyard dog."
Selections: You Don't Mess Around With Jim, Operator, Time In A Bottle, One Less Set Of Footsteps, Photographs And Memories, Tomorrow's Gonna Be A Brighter Day, New York's Not My Home, Walkin' Back To Georgia, I Got A Name, Bad Bad Leroy Brown, I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song, Workin' At The Car Wash Blues, Dreamin' Again, Roller Derby Queen, Lover's Cross, Hey Tomorrow.
This Album presents a body of work which almost never saw vinyl light of day, yet became some of the most memorable hits of all time. Without exception, every major record company passed on the You Don't Mess Around With Jim LP. So producers Terry Cashman and Tommy West eventually pressured ABC to release the album since they recorded as Cashman & West for the company's Dunhill subsidary. Ironically, in the up, the classic "Operator" made him the critic's favorite. With the next album, Life & Times, the producers strategically released the 45 "One Less Set Of Footsteps" to help set-up the single "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" which when #1 and entrenched itself in American culture by coining the popular phrase "meaner than a junkyard dog."
Selections: You Don't Mess Around With Jim, Operator, Time In A Bottle, One Less Set Of Footsteps, Photographs And Memories, Tomorrow's Gonna Be A Brighter Day, New York's Not My Home, Walkin' Back To Georgia, I Got A Name, Bad Bad Leroy Brown, I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song, Workin' At The Car Wash Blues, Dreamin' Again, Roller Derby Queen, Lover's Cross, Hey Tomorrow.