I'm 26 and I grew up with my mom listening to Jim Croce and still love him to this day. I just love his voice and his ability to tell stories through his music you don't hear music like this anymore
Same sort of story, different era. My dad wore out his Jim Croce 8-tracks driving us kids around in the mid 70s. Now I'm hooked. If you can sit still listening to this song, you'd have to be made of stone.
I'm 63 yrs old and Jimmy was my man!!! Just got a text from my son who said he "is out cruising in his Mustang play you boy Jim Croce". Brought a tear to my eye. Still love your songs Jimmy. I cried the day he died.
Croce mastered rockabilly and soft ballads... a distinctive voice, a gifted lyricist and a talent for catchy melodies combine to produce timeless songs.... "These Dreams" still puts a lump in my throat ....
This is my favorite all time Jim Croce song.. Its really the story of how NASCAR evolved... All those bootleggers with suped up cars, 500 gallon tanks of moonshine outrunning the cops.
@Racing Roy, this is a reply to your statement, about Rapid Roy, Dirt is for racing, asphalt is just a way to get there...not verbatim....but basically!😂😂 I laughed, because you are right, really! I listen to this song every time I get into my car! No, I'm not young & want to speed down the highway, can't anyway! Why? That 2006 Cadillac STS (less than 87,000 original miles, would probably blow all gaskets!😂😂 Just a thought to share: Why do they make everyday, street cars that can travel at speeds of 120+ but we will be arrested if we drive them that fast....if we're caught??? Years ago, I drove a V-8, T-Bird on an Interstate with the speedometer bouncing past 120!!😂😂 I guess that vehicle & engine could surpass that 120 but that gauge didn't know what to do when it did!!😂😂 Hope you are keeping it in the dirt!😂😂 Have you tried ＂mud slinging＂?😂😂 Have you ever been to a ＂Swamp Buggy Race＂? I have!! So much more fun than these hopped up truck shows! Monster Trucks? Actually, they aren't such monsters to me, other than loud mufflers, no mufflers, updated old glass packs, whatever? Swamp Buggies were Monsters!!😂😂 They could go where no-man has ever gone!!! No helmets, no fireproof clothing, & most had no doors! But, all seemed to have a roll bar!😂😂 I don't know the politically correct term for a ＂roll bar＂ in 2020, but it is what it is! Have you ever been to a Swamp Buggy Race? If not, & you are curious, reply to me! I can share info! If you have, let me know!! I loved watching them! Never knew of anyone killed in one of those races!!!🤷♀️🤷♀️
I have loved this song since high school and later-while working at a CBS affiliate-I took footage I had shot of NASCAR, 1/2 mile ovals, dirt track racing, and other assorted “race gatherings” and edited the snippets to the beat of Rapid Roy, leaving in much of the nat. sound. CBS actually bought it and made it available to their affiliate stations.
+Jamie Warrior Warlord McCallum I wonder if Rapid Roy is a real person. I heard that Croce got inspiration from the crazy people he met in his travels across the US.
+VinnyMartello : Rapid Roy was Roy Hall from Dawsonville, Ga. Early NASCAR star. Shot and killed by his cousin over a debt from their moonshine business
Not quite. You're mixing up Lloyd Seay with Roy Hall. Seay was an early pre-NASCAR stock car driver who NASCAR founder Big Bill France called "the greatest stock car driver who ever lived." Seay once flipped his car twice in the same event and still finished fourth. He won his first race at the age of 18. 8 days after Seay led the entirety of a 160 mile race on the beach/road track at Daytona Beach in 1941, he was shot by his cousin for buying a bag of sugar on his cousin's account. Roy Hall himself was pretty cool as well. In 1939, NASCAR founder Big Bill France won in Hall's car in Fort Wayne, Indiana, after Hall was arrested before the race on moonshine charges. In 1946, Hall was arrested by federal agents in Greensboro, North Carolina before the stock car race there in a shootout at the hotel Hall was staying at. Both were the kind of crazy outlaw badasses who drove in stock cars when Big Bill France was formulating the vision that would become NASCAR.
Definitely interesting fodder from which to write the lyrics to this song. And who better to tell the story than good ol' blue collar, Jim Croce and his guitar band.
Just saw somebody drive by on Saturday afternoon in a pickup truck pulling a trailer and it reminded me of this song. It could have been a "Rapid Roy" on the way to the track. Reminds me of the times I spent with friends (as spectators) at Buffalo Park Speedway in Carrollton/Farmers Branch in the late 70's/early 80's. (;-))
Ever since i was 6 years old n heard this song i told my mom im getting a tattoo on my arm that says baby n another one that just says hey . I still intend to
great music, they dont make it like this anymore, jim was coming to our city brownsville texas back in 1973 when he passed away. in ta plane crash, i iwas looking forwarrd to going to his concert along with helen reddy who was the main star, concert got cancelled. RIP Jim.
@@wagglewiggle Agreed! FYI, I am and was a big fan back in the 70s when he had content playing on the radio but am now discovering his other stuff (that wasn't played as often).
they should make a movie about this legendary entertainer and his partner they died way before their time but have contributed so much to music thanks to jim his partner and his wife ingrid for some awesome songs RIP Brothers
22 years old and while all my generations dances at clubs to Drake or Lil Wayne I'm drinking by my fire jamming to rapid Roy. if only my generation could appreciate this the way I do
@KaptKan1 I remember when I first heard Jim, I was in the van with my great uncle. I asked, "Who's this?" And he said, "Jim Croce, son. Great man." And I said, "Is that so?" He assumed because I was young, I wouldn't like him...I freaking love him! :D Thanks Uncle Jarred for introducing me to this music :)
I have only ever had one image in my head from this song: Schneider (Pat Harrington) from "One Day at a Time". He always had the cigarette pack in his sleeve but you never saw him actually smoke.
@mtcamp62 Wow, I thought i was the only one! I spent the summer of '74 in Buena Park, I was almost 12. My oldest brother's best friends mom's house came complete with a pool, rec room w/ pool table, dart board, and of course a full bar. Red split window '63 'vette in the driveway. His friends were Vets, hippies, or both. I believe we were a few blocks south east of the 91 and Valley View. Great summer in O. C.!!
Mom taught us some of Jim's songs when were were ages 5-7 (simplified versions). Mom felt that "Your Cheatin Heart" was not an appropriate song for little kids back then. You are lucky! You are 18 and not listening to Justin Beiber. I loved Beck, Page, Hendrix, Clapton, in the 80s and even playing metal we still played Jim Croce songs at out gigs. We have TH-cam now. Man top 40 radio was it back then, & I lived through the Disco era! Politically? You may be doomed. Vote! That is my advice!
@56DONN Roy Hall was my great uncle--he for sure had no fear!! There are many stories of him hauling moonshine in the mountains of north georgia outrunning the revenuers!
@56DONN Hey--I have that book--it is worth the read. My uncle Roy stayed in so much trouble but he was the nicest man! Roy Hall, Raymond Parks, and Lloyd Seay were all cousins--the first racing "team." I think the book talks about all of them--it has been a while since I read it!
Who in their right mind would have the gall to dislike Jim Croce?
Guys who don't know what a stock car is
kanye west has 40 accounts probably
42 jerks lol
People who spit into the wind.
Liberals of course
Jim was the best storyteller! I love his characters, you can visualize them as you listen to the songs about them
He’s a pretty good story teller but you have to give credit to The Highwaymen, they are pretty good too.
Don't forget about Harry Chapin!
Yes he paints a great picture of a person in so little time. After listening to some of his songs I feel like I've met the person.
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Ggggg
I'm 26 and I grew up with my mom listening to Jim Croce and still love him to this day. I just love his voice and his ability to tell stories through his music you don't hear music like this anymore
+Alexandra Golightly you got that right! Lord Willing I'll be the next balladeer some day.
Same sort of story, different era. My dad wore out his Jim Croce 8-tracks driving us kids around in the mid 70s. Now I'm hooked. If you can sit still listening to this song, you'd have to be made of stone.
26 grew up listening to Jim with my dad crossing the salt flats of Utah and Nevada brings back alotta memories
Hey Alexandra same here. Let me know if you are available hard to find a good girl today.
It's good music
I'm 63 yrs old and Jimmy was my man!!! Just got a text from my son who said he "is out cruising in his Mustang play you boy Jim Croce". Brought a tear to my eye. Still love your songs Jimmy. I cried the day he died.
...the best storytelling in the history of storytelling.
The best folk singer; I've seen wow brings me way back to my teens.
I grew up listening to Jim Bad Le Roy Brown was on the same album if I can remember right and rolled duby queen and a few more.
Croce mastered rockabilly and soft ballads... a distinctive voice, a gifted lyricist and a talent for catchy melodies combine to produce timeless songs.... "These Dreams" still puts a lump in my throat ....
Jim left this world too soon
That is a fact! I've got all his music on cds thanks to a friend of mine. My daughter even loves his music.
True may he Rest In Peace
Its tru I'm 12 and love his music
He was still onna shoestring budget when he died. I don't think he ever knew how great he was, or how his talent would affect our lives.
Every song of jim croce was his best !❤😊
Listening again on Jim's 80th birthday. Already listened and cried to enough of his sad songs. Need upbeat.
a true classic. Love Jim Croce. he was an amazing song writer and we lost him too soon.
Nobody sings a song (and writes) like Jim. Love his music.
This is my favorite all time Jim Croce song.. Its really the story of how NASCAR evolved... All those bootleggers with suped up cars, 500 gallon tanks of moonshine outrunning the cops.
I had lots of family back in the day doing that.
I still dont know how to pronounce Jim's Last Name
Yep. It's pretty much in the song.
@@rickchudosky818 Crow-Che
My cousin Willie lol! He said no damn cop could catch him. And none of them ever did!
The Best Folk singer ever.
Jim will always be my favorite....great lyrics in every song....
Dirt is for racing, asphalt is just for getting there!!!
@Racing Roy, this is a reply to your statement, about Rapid Roy, Dirt is for racing, asphalt is just a way to get there...not verbatim....but basically!😂😂 I laughed, because you are right, really! I listen to this song every time I get into my car! No, I'm not young & want to speed down the highway, can't anyway! Why? That 2006 Cadillac STS (less than 87,000 original miles, would probably blow all gaskets!😂😂 Just a thought to share: Why do they make everyday, street cars that can travel at speeds of 120+ but we will be arrested if we drive them that fast....if we're caught??? Years ago, I drove a V-8, T-Bird on an Interstate with the speedometer bouncing past 120!!😂😂 I guess that vehicle & engine could surpass that 120 but that gauge didn't know what to do when it did!!😂😂 Hope you are keeping it in the dirt!😂😂 Have you tried ＂mud slinging＂?😂😂 Have you ever been to a ＂Swamp Buggy Race＂? I have!! So much more fun than these hopped up truck shows! Monster Trucks? Actually, they aren't such monsters to me, other than loud mufflers, no mufflers, updated old glass packs, whatever? Swamp Buggies were Monsters!!😂😂 They could go where no-man has ever gone!!! No helmets, no fireproof clothing, & most had no doors! But, all seemed to have a roll bar!😂😂 I don't know the politically correct term for a ＂roll bar＂ in 2020, but it is what it is! Have you ever been to a Swamp Buggy Race? If not, & you are curious, reply to me! I can share info! If you have, let me know!! I loved watching them! Never knew of anyone killed in one of those races!!!🤷♀️🤷♀️
Dirt is for taters
Ol' Jim was one of the greats. The world is poorer without him...at least we still have his music :)
I have loved this song since high school and later-while working at a CBS affiliate-I took footage I had shot of NASCAR, 1/2 mile ovals, dirt track racing, and other assorted “race gatherings” and edited the snippets to the beat of Rapid Roy, leaving in much of the nat. sound. CBS actually bought it and made it available to their affiliate stations.
That's awesome. Would love to see it if you scrounge it up.
awesome track from jim croce, man rapid roy sounds like a bad ass.
+Jamie Warrior Warlord McCallum I wonder if Rapid Roy is a real person. I heard that Croce got inspiration from the crazy people he met in his travels across the US.
+VinnyMartello : Rapid Roy was Roy Hall from Dawsonville, Ga. Early NASCAR star. Shot and killed by his cousin over a debt from their moonshine business
Not quite. You're mixing up Lloyd Seay with Roy Hall. Seay was an early pre-NASCAR stock car driver who NASCAR founder Big Bill France called "the greatest stock car driver who ever lived." Seay once flipped his car twice in the same event and still finished fourth. He won his first race at the age of 18. 8 days after Seay led the entirety of a 160 mile race on the beach/road track at Daytona Beach in 1941, he was shot by his cousin for buying a bag of sugar on his cousin's account. Roy Hall himself was pretty cool as well. In 1939, NASCAR founder Big Bill France won in Hall's car in Fort Wayne, Indiana, after Hall was arrested before the race on moonshine charges. In 1946, Hall was arrested by federal agents in Greensboro, North Carolina before the stock car race there in a shootout at the hotel Hall was staying at. Both were the kind of crazy outlaw badasses who drove in stock cars when Big Bill France was formulating the vision that would become NASCAR.
Definitely interesting fodder from which to write the lyrics to this song. And who better to tell the story than good ol' blue collar, Jim Croce and his guitar band.
Jamie Warrior Warlord McCallum right, I wanna be like him one day
A story-song writing phenomenon.
This man never wrote a bad song and he died before he could enjoy the limelight
Just saw somebody drive by on Saturday afternoon in a pickup truck pulling a trailer and it reminded me of this song. It could have been a "Rapid Roy" on the way to the track. Reminds me of the times I spent with friends (as spectators) at Buffalo Park Speedway in Carrollton/Farmers Branch in the late 70's/early 80's. (;-))
For the 70’s the quality is crisp
This song takes me back to the days of racing cars and dragging when I was a kid, I love it, I play it as loud as I can and just go back in time
great song by jim croce. you gotta get a kick out of the lyrics too.
It not Rocky. It rapid roy. Robert Bird
Jim Croce was a freaking gift to us all!
my parents got a tattoo on one arm that says "baby" and the other one just say "hey".... no I'm serious.. they really did..
Ever since i was 6 years old n heard this song i told my mom im getting a tattoo on my arm that says baby n another one that just says hey . I still intend to
So do many people
I will skip on the one that says Baby. But if I ever get one it will just say "Hey"
My favorite song by a great talent.
great music, they dont make it like this anymore, jim was coming to our city brownsville texas back in 1973 when he passed away. in ta plane crash, i iwas looking forwarrd to going to his concert along with helen reddy who was the main star, concert got cancelled. RIP Jim.
It's Sunday afternoon 8 March 2020 and it's time for RAPID ROY THAT STOCK CAR BOY!!!
that is some real Jim Croce there!
The best!!!! ❤❤❤❤
my dad steve and his best friend roy are still the only people i've heard of drift racing M tractors
Amen, KapKan. JC was our last poet and most of us don't remember just how much we lost in that plane crash.
The Wikipedia article on my favorite song of his - "Operator" brought me here.
Listen to alot of Jim's stuff it's mostly great
@@wagglewiggle Agreed! FYI, I am and was a big fan back in the 70s when he had content playing on the radio but am now discovering his other stuff (that wasn't played as often).
this my sh*t i luv music Rap,Country
Miss you Jim great rocking roll Robert lang and Annmarie AUGUST 2020
Still absolute delight: lively, funny, tuneful, and CLEAN.
My grandpa showed me this song and I love it😁🎶
Guys. Listen to. His. Roller derby queen. Lol. Very good
At the end of this song comes a simon and garfuncle classic.
The sound of silence.
+George Barzydlo LOL nice
good music + 57 Chevy BelAir = true American spirit.
man what a great talent he was.
He was pretty great.
this is just class! I LOVE IT!!!!!!
Wonderful musician. What a sad loss.
I love some Croce!
they should make a movie about this legendary entertainer and his partner they died way before their time but have contributed so much to music thanks to jim his partner and his wife ingrid for some awesome songs RIP Brothers
BEST AMERICAN SONGWRITER EVER.
two of my fav guitars on this song
A great artist of great versatility. I love this song.
Great song r.i.p.Jim the soldat and great singer
what an awesome tune!
LOL We do this kind of stuff with regularity! LOL I love this song 'cause Croce's singin' 'bout us!!!
why are their 3 minutes of blank
22 years old and while all my generations dances at clubs to Drake or Lil Wayne I'm drinking by my fire jamming to rapid Roy. if only my generation could appreciate this the way I do
Beautifull poet, great musision, died to soon but Jimmy was butt ugly! God love him.
im here with my girly, both 23! Right there with you brother
28...
its nostalic as hell from my father playing it
I here you man im 24 nothing beats the classics pretty much all i listen to and i gotta say i feel like i dont fit in with my generation
Jesse Haskin I'm 14 and I listen to this and I love it geus cuz I'm country
the guy still rocks after all these years my mom used to play him along with willie nelson merle hagger & alot of other country & western artists
Great song about Roy Hall
Such a brilliantly evocative song.
One of my all time favorites
@KaptKan1 I remember when I first heard Jim, I was in the van with my great uncle. I asked, "Who's this?" And he said, "Jim Croce, son. Great man." And I said, "Is that so?" He assumed because I was young, I wouldn't like him...I freaking love him! :D Thanks Uncle Jarred for introducing me to this music :)
It was chock full of wonderful, innocent music.
My daughter feels the same as you do.
Rapid Roy the Stock Car Boy!!!
A LEGEND AND ONE OF THE BEST ROCKERS EVER
I like the little tribute to Chuck berry.
Wish that instrumental interlude at the end would go on longer !
The Lyrics are sensational. Down home cookin!!!! Ye haw!
Thanks for posting this!!!
Love his and MUrrys picking
Fantastic music. Really like his Music.
Blunt Blowin
This song just makes me wanna smile!.
That's far out man 😎
This music is ageless. Unlike most crap out nowadays.
Great song great artist
For Russ! Love you, yours, & always will!!! OKC!
love it.... rockin red...
I have only ever had one image in my head from this song: Schneider (Pat Harrington) from "One Day at a Time". He always had the cigarette pack in his sleeve but you never saw him actually smoke.
This is an awesome tune, as are all the tunes on this album. I can just see him racing like the song says,,,,.....great tune, what else can I say.
Ok that's it! I'm getting those tattoos!😄😆😆😅
I love jim croce
@bigbiscuit100 that line gives you a snapshot in your head. Love the song. :)
Love this song !!
Croce at his best!!!
I can't believe there are no comments on this song. I love this tune!
He knew how to tell a story
@mtcamp62 Wow, I thought i was the only one! I spent the summer of '74 in Buena Park, I was almost 12. My oldest brother's best friends mom's house came complete with a pool, rec room w/ pool table, dart board, and of course a full bar. Red split window '63 'vette in the driveway. His friends were Vets, hippies, or both. I believe we were a few blocks south east of the 91 and Valley View. Great summer in O. C.!!
Mom taught us some of Jim's songs when were were ages 5-7 (simplified versions). Mom felt that "Your Cheatin Heart" was not an appropriate song for little kids back then. You are lucky! You are 18 and not listening to Justin Beiber. I loved Beck, Page, Hendrix, Clapton, in the 80s and even playing metal we still played Jim Croce songs at out gigs. We have TH-cam now. Man top 40 radio was it back then, & I lived through the Disco era! Politically? You may be doomed. Vote! That is my advice!
i like the song, funny lyric. love it.
My roy drove a 57 stock car and this song is him
57 Chevrolet, too nice.
This is badass man
@KaptKan1 Thank you, sir. :) He introduced me to a lot of music. The Beatles, the 'Stones, Jim, and many others. :)
@56DONN Roy Hall was my great uncle--he for sure had no fear!! There are many stories of him hauling moonshine in the mountains of north georgia outrunning the revenuers!
i like it a lot, it s amazing!
THANK-YOU for posting this song. I have been trying to find the "long version," with the guitar bridge, on youtube.
@56DONN Hey--I have that book--it is worth the read. My uncle Roy stayed in so much trouble but he was the nicest man! Roy Hall, Raymond Parks, and Lloyd Seay were all cousins--the first racing "team." I think the book talks about all of them--it has been a while since I read it!
Stand on it
Doing 130 mile an hour smiling at the camera with a toothpick in his mouth~ Classic! :D
The best picture, doesn't it ??
The best line!
right on thats because we all know a "Jim" , a "Leroy Brown" and that crazy "Rapid Roy"
AMEN!
@@topenddean Don't forget "Speedball Tucker"!