Jerry Reed Sings Jim Croce is an album by American country singer Jerry Reed, released by RCA Records April 1980. The album is a tribute album for Jim Croce who died in 1973 in a plane crash during the peak of his career. Seven of the ten songs were singles released by Croce. The album peaked at number 56 on the Billboard country chart. The song “Age” (b/w “Workin’ at the Car Wash Blues”) was the only single released from the album. It peaked at 36 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.
- “Workin’ at the Car Wash Blues” 2:17
- “One Less Set of Footsteps” 2:43
- “You Don’t Mess Around with Jim” 3:08
- “I Got a Name” 3:20
- “Time in a Bottle” 2:54
- “Age” 3:47
- “I’ll Have to Say I Love You in a Song” 3:00
- “The Hard Way Every Time” 2:25
- “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown” 3:04
- “Careful Man” 3:04
Jerry Reed – guitar, vocals
Kenny Penny – guitar
Stan Dacus – engineer
Wayne ‘The Professor’ Harrison – keyboards
Paul Cooke – drums
Jerry Reed Hubbard (March 20, 1937 – September 1, 2008) was an American country music singer, guitarist, composer, and songwriter, as well as an actor who appeared in more than a dozen films. His signature songs included “Guitar Man”, “U.S. Male”, “A Thing Called Love”, “Alabama Wild Man”, “Amos Moses”, “When You’re Hot, You’re Hot” (which garnered a Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance, Male), “Ko-Ko Joe”, “Lord, Mr. Ford”, “East Bound and Down” (the theme song for the 1977 blockbuster Smokey and the Bandit, in which Reed co-starred), “The Bird”, and “She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)”.
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