Australian singles charts:
Bad Bad Leroy Brown entered the Australian singles chart* on 13 August 1973 and peaked at #11. It was #85 on the Top 100 of 1973.
Album:
The song is on the 1973 Jim Croce album Life and Times.
Songwriter:
Jim Croce
Producers:
Terry Cashman, Tommy West
Record label of Australian release:
Vertigo
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Wikipedia:
The song’s titular character is a 6-foot-4-inch (1.93 metres) tall man from the South Side of Chicago whose size, attitude, and tendency to carry weapons have given him a reputation in which he is adored by women and feared by men. He is said to dress in fancy clothes and wear diamond rings, and to own a custom Lincoln Continental and a Cadillac Eldorado, implying he has a lot of money. He is also known to carry a .32 caliber handgun in his pocket and a razor in his shoe. One day in a bar he makes a pass at a pretty married woman named Doris, whose jealous husband engages Brown in a fight. Leroy loses badly, and is described as looking “like a jigsaw puzzle with a couple of pieces gone”.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad,_Bad_Leroy_Brown
Jim explains more about the song before he sings it in the second video above.
Lyrics:
Well the South side of Chicago
Is the baddest part of town
And if you go down there
You better just beware
Of a man named Leroy Brown
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