Australian singles charts:
I Got a Name entered the Kent charts on 31 December 1973 and peaked at #49.
Album:
The song is on I Got a Name which entered the Kent album charts on 27 May 1974 and peaked at #69.
Songwriters:
Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel
Producers:
Terry Cashman, Tommy West
Record label of Australian release:
Philips
Wikipedia:
I Got a Name was the first single from his album of the same title and also Croce’s first posthumous single, released the day after his death in a plane crash on 20 September 1973.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Got_a_Name_(song)
Songfacts:
This was the theme song for the 1973 movie The Last American Hero starring Jeff Bridges as a stock car racer. The movie is based on the true story of the stock car driver Junior Johnson. This is a rare song that Croce recorded but did not write.
Other movies: Quentin Tarantino used this song in his 2012 film Django Unchained. Also The Ice Storm (1997) and Invincible (2006).
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/jim-croce/i-got-a-name
Lyrics:
Like the pine trees lining the winding road
I’ve got a name, I’ve got a name
Like the singing bird and the croaking toad
I’ve got a name, I’ve got a name
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