Giles ,'Sleeper'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
I drove across the country with my best friend Alex (Boston to California) in '85 with an 8-track player in the car. We picked up Dick Clark's 25 Years of Rock and Roll in a thrift shop in Cheyenne, Wyoming and listened to "Tequila" all the way across the Rockies.
My biggest association with that 8-track player, though, would be Aerosmith. Toys in the Attic, bay-bee!
Also, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, a band that only makes sense on an 8-Track.
Poor Croce - he died before he achieved national prominence, right?
Oh no! He had a shit ton of hits before he died, and had his own summer TV show and all that.
You don't tug on Supermans's Cape
You don't speed into the wind
You don't pull the mask off an ol' Lone Ranger
And you don't mess around with Jim
Right, plus "Operator" and "Don't Mess Around With Jim" and they released "Time in a Bottle" posthumously and it was huge hit.
Oh no! He had a shit ton of hits before he died, and had his own summer TV show and all that.
It looks like he had great success in '72 and died in '73. Huh.
tommy, I think you might be confusing Croce with Harry Chapin.
ETA: Then again, that might be just me. I was just reading Chapin's entry at Wikipedia, and found out he had several years between "Taxi" and "Cat's in the Cradle" and his death.
When I was a kid, late 70s, people two blocks over put a poster of Harry Chapin on their front door after he died and left it there for years.
Okay, he died in 1981, so I must be remembering junior high. Unless it was a poster of Croce, but I'm pretty sure it was Harry Chapin. Stupid memory fail.
And "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" was a hit when we was alive.
And I remember "I Got a Name" being all over the radio right after he died. As in, it was his current hit at the time.
ETA: And how could I forget his posthumous "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song"? One of the greatest love songs ever.
I think I remember Croce singing "Leroy Brown" on The Sonny and Cher Show. Or maybe it was just Cher singing it?
I remember some show featured the song, including an animated video! Maybe the Carol Burnett show?