Jim Croce - Greatest Love Songs - Operator (That's Not The Way It Feels)
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James Joseph Croce, better known as Jim Croce, was born in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on January 10, 1943, to Jim and Flora Croce, and grew up in a family of Italian background.[2] Croce took a strong interest in music at a young age. At five, he learned to play his first song on the accordion, "Lady of Spain." He says, "I was the original underachiever. I'd shake that thing and smile, but I was sort of a late bloomer." Croce attended Upper Darby High School in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania. After his graduation in 1960, Croce went to Malvern Preparatory School for one year before deciding to enroll at Villanova University in 1961. During his time as a student at the university, Croce became a member of the Villanova Singers and Villanova Spires, and was a student disc jockey at WKVU.[3][4]
Croce did not take music seriously other than as a hobby until his time at Villanova, where he formed various bands, performing at fraternity parties, coffee houses, and at universities around Philadelphia, playing "anything that the people wanted to hear: blues, rock, a cappella, railroad music... anything." One of those bands was chosen for a foreign exchange tour of Africa and the Middle East. "We just ate what the people ate, lived in the woods, and played our songs. Of course they didn't speak English over there... but if you mean what you're singing, people understand."
![Jim Croce - Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels) [Official Music Video]](/img/n.gif)
Lyrics
Operator, well could you help me place this call?
See, the number on the matchbook is old and faded
She's living in L.A. with my best old ex-friend Ray
A guy she said she knew well and sometimes hated
Isn't that the way they say it goes? Well, let's forget all that
And give me the number if you can find it
So I can call just to tell 'em I'm fine and to show
I've overcome the blow, I've learned to take it well
I only wish my words could just convince myself
That it just wasn't real, but that's not the way it feels
Operator, well could you help me place this call?
Well, I can't read the number that you just gave me
There's something in my eyes, you know it happens every time
I think about a love that I thought would save me
Isn't that the way they say it goes? Well, let's forget all that
And give me the number if you can find it
So I can call just to tell 'em I'm fine and to show
I've overcome the blow, I've learned to take it well
I only wish my words could just convince myself
That it just wasn't real, but that's not the way it feels
No, no, no, no - that's not the way it feels
Operator, well let's forget about this call
There's no one there I really wanted to talk to
Thank you for your time, ah, you've been so much more than kind
And you can keep the dime
Isn't that the way they say it goes? Well, let's forget all that
And give me the number if you can find it
So I can call just to tell 'em I'm fine and to show
I've overcome the blow, I've learned to take it well
I only wish my words could just convince myself
That it just wasn't real, but that's not the way it feels
he died too young
He never died
He lives on in his music.
@@randy5655 he did indeed
I forgot how absolutely beautiful his voice was. I'm loving this.
I wish my words could convince myself that it just wasn't real...everyone who has experienced betrayal and heartbreak understand this line completely. The most beautiful words to express emotional pain ever penned.
You forgot the more important part. “Buts that not the way it feels”.
Oi oi let’s have a big shout out for Jim’s backing singer and guitarist Maury Muehleisen. His playing and harmonising helped Jim enormously to become the brilliant act that he was 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Met his sister Mary and younger brother at a tribute concert for
Jim and Maury at Upper Darby High School some 10 years back... lovely family he had.
Miss you Jim and Maury.🙏🏼🕯️🙏🏼
Thank you for this comment. The taste of his writing and playing is rare for anyone. To think that he was only 24 years old at the time of his death and obviously younger when writing and playing this stuff is mesmerizing.
What a tragedy it was to lose Jim and Maury.
Where did theses songs go? I mean these days it all about sex drugs and money. 40 years ago it told lessons, stories, and events. People should understand me and these people listening to this song. I’m a boy who likes old music me and my dad always listen to Jim Croce, cat stevens, Harry chapin, jimmy, and james Taylor. Who wants this music back?
Man, you got me with Cat Steven's. You are right, music meant something then. Me ex husband loved Jim C. All of these songs beautiful
There are still incredibly talented artists today, just as there were not so great songs in the past. You can cherry pick from any era and say nothing is like it because it's the best. Open up.
@@KittyforPeaceThat's true, but also the lyrics are good, poetic with a full story, and fits well with the nuanced singing. The music is also layered, the small changes in repetitions express changes in mood, the upbeat song manages to express a feeling of incredible sadness in a subdued but not sentimental way, like his call to the operator.
This reminds me of my sister. She always cracked when Jim, "You can keep the dime." Today's generation will never understand that line. I miss you so much sis! She passed in 2018.
I had always known the main line, “Operator, would you help me place this call?” but had never listened to the song closely until recently when I let it play all the way through. The lyrics hit me like a ton of bricks because they described the exact feelings I still have over 3 years since my last relationship ended in betrayal and heartbreak. I thank God for Croce and other musicians who can get to the core of emotion in such a beautiful and artistic way. Needless to say by the end of the song I was weeping while singing along and the “that’s not the way it feels” line still hits hard in the gut every time that I listen to it. Just a beautiful song! 💛
Your comment is a deep cut :(
Jim had such a mature understanding of life that, to me, far exceeds his mere 30 years life with us. I was 21 when he died, and his music affects me today as much as it di when it was new to us. He was a one-off and will never be forgotten. RIP Jim, 50 years ago this year, and yet, still, 50 years later, I love listening to his songs.
May you RIP 🪦 AMEN 🙏🏻 😢
Criminally-underrated/-underappreciated singer-songwriter. This is my favorite song by him -- a moving little tune about trying to get over a relationship. Rest in peace, Jim, and thanks for the music.
The one and only Jim Croce, never be another like him; his music is timeless, his songs are just as fresh today as they were 40 years ago...(RIP) Jim....
Yes
Damn straight.
Love him.
♥️timeless , everytime I hear his voice..... 😥
He’s singing about a telephone operator though hahahaha
@@sixandseven8s
Now it would be, Algorithm.
The lyrics are breathtaking. The music amazing. The voice beautiful.
37 years ago Time in a Bottle was our wedding song. Both the song and our marriage are still
going strong. Jim Croce just can't be beat!
Kathy Leake cool
A plane?
idoj654123 is there anything more special than that insanity?
Peace and love ❤️✌️
Kathy Leake Congratulations!!! I love Jim Croce. Best love song writer ever...✌🏼
As a young teenager with not much money, I had about 10 eight tracks, but one them was great Jim Croce. Enough said.
Unbelievable talent!! Gone too soon. I always thought to myself, if he lived longer, how good would his albums be.? Then I put on Operator and say he left more than enough!! RIP LEGEND S/S
Theres someting in my eyes it happens every time....
Favourite line by a mile
I love Jim so much I had his records for years and didn’t even realize what I had. Something in my eye happens every time
One of my favorite singers,been listening for most of my life.You left us way too soon,rest in peace my friend.
I grew up on Jim Croce music and it brings back so many memories some good some bad but memories all the same. Being a musician I can really respect his song writing skills and I have no doubt he would be a super star had he lived! RIP my musical friend.
This song brings back memories of my childhood, riding in my father's 1968 Dodge Dart Swinger to spend all day helping him at the laundromat that he co-owned with my uncle back in the early-to-mid 70s..he'd always play this 8-track tape on those trips every other Saturday.
I also had the 8 track!
👍💯✔
cool memory
another hit here on the 8 track as well, the 70's man, this song I will always be 6 years old
IM LISTENING TO IN JIM CROCE'S SONG. IN MEMORY OF MY LATE BROTHER JOHNNY. R.I.P. BECAUSE THIS WAS HIS FAVORITE SINGER. ALSO I LIKE ALL HIS SONGS. I MISS HIM ALOT.
This is what you call a timeless classic. I can't put a finger around his style of music making. It can be put under a certain generic label of music genre. Mystifying and perplexing indeed, especially 'Time in a bottle'.
I love Jim so much! He was a wonderful singer/song writer! He will always have a special place in my heart!
Operator
Oh. Could you help me place this call?
'Cause I can't read the number
That you just gave me
There's something in my eyes
You know it happens every time
I think about the love
That I thought would save me
As a young boy I listened to this song, but had not lived enough to understand the depth and the emotions of its lyrics. The years we’ll they pass-by for all of us and life, well ,“Life Happens”, now older when I listen to these same lyrics, well, there’s something in my eyes, you know it happens every time.
Jim just sat there, smiled and played and sang, no big production, he just sang and we listened.
I believe that the Good Lord made Jim Croce so humanity could get a glimpse of the greatness of His creation, and then in the blink of an eye, he took him back to Heaven.
What a talent Jim was, pure genius, LEGEND.
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Still, after all these years...still rips your still-beating heart out of your chest, shows it to you, and shoves it into your shirt pocket.
Remember pay phones and phonebooths?
Yeah I'm old, and so is this song.
Both of us are good though 😉
That battle of heartache... the want to prove to them that you're fine even though you feel broken. Best step is to not make the call and make the peace within yourself
Of course heartbreak can be expected to happen from a lover. But not to forget, you don't expect one of your good friends to be the one to cross your friendship. (With my best ol' ex-friend Ray).
I really thank my dad for showing me Jim croce music
I remember hearing on the news his. Plane crsshrd. 73 on my BIRTHDAY. I. Loved him and still do. Too. Short. Of a life for A GREAT SINGER💙💙💙💜💜HE WOULD OF BE LARGER THAN. LIFE. LOVE. YOU MR.CROCR THANKS FOR THE BEAUTIFUL SONGS...AND MEMORIES 💜💜
This is Jeannie not scott💜💜
I've listened to this song all my life. I play it over an over... think my husband thinks I'm going nuts. that's ok. I wake up singing the song I go to bed its still in my mind. it soothes me. ok I'm done
gonna play it one more time! lol
It’s one of those songs. I heard once Elvis played this song on repeat into the early hours of the morning. :) that’s a lie but it felt good lol
Its more than a song its a FEELING we all have felt in our lives, old and young!
Timeless, but unfortunately they don't have operator service any more and tell the kids about "pay phones" and theyll look at you like you were a caveman. Lol.
We need more musicians like this in this day in time
They’re out there ..
@@nicklrrueckert Not quite...
@@nicklrrueckert no they ain't...
no chance
@@ClaireDeLune12 How about Brandi Carlile and White Buffalo ?
The perfect country and western song!
In a class of his own '
It was in a class of his own.
yep still playing the song!!! can't get enough of his voice. it keeps me up at night. check this gonna play it again...... I wish I could have seen him in person. maybe kissed his cheek.
Connie go to a channel called Reina del cid..they're four young folk artists and they do a crackin version of this and many others. The tone in joshs voice just suits this song down to a tee. Their harmonies on the chorus are faultless too
Wonderful artist what a loss when he passed
storyteller at his best
Lyrics:
Operator, well could you help me place this call?
See the number on the matchbook is old and faded
She’s living in L.A. with my best old ex-friend Ray
A guy she said she knew well and sometimes hated
Isn’t that the way they say it goes?
Well, let’s forget all that
And give me the number if you can find it
So I can call just to tell ‘em I’m fine and to show
I’ve overcome the blow, I’ve learned to take it well
I only wish my words could just convince myself
That it just wasn’t real
But that’s not the way it feels
Operator, well could you help me place this call?
I can’t read the number that you just gave me
There’s something in my eyes, you know it happens every time
I think about a love that I thought would save me
Isn’t that the way they say it goes?
Well, let’s forget all that
And give me the number if you can find it
So I can call just to tell ‘em I’m fine and to show
I’ve overcome the blow, I’ve learned to take it well
I only wish my words could just convince myself
That it just wasn’t real
But that’s not the way it feels
No, no, no, no
That’s not the way it feels
Operator, oh let’s forget about this call
There’s no one there I really wanted to talk to
Thank you for your time, ah, you’ve been so much more than kind
And you can keep the dime
Isn’t that the way they say it goes?
Well, let’s forget all that
And give me the number if you can find it
So I can call just to tell ‘em I’m fine and to show
I’ve overcome the blow, I’ve learned to take it well
I only wish my words could just convince myself
That it just wasn’t real
But that’s not the way it feels
Thanks
Thanks you
I wish I was able to tell you how I have loved you for 5 years. I realize that you have never felt the same way about me. I don’t think I’m going to be able to ever love someone else.
Remembering Jim Croce born on January 10, 1943.He was an American folk and rock singer-songwriter. Between 1966 and 1973, Croce released five studio albums and numerous singles. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Croce
What a big different with this terrible rap and hiphop music thank y.for y,re time Jim and the other members of the band, r.i.p
I think this is where I learned my love of harmonies....
When songs actually "said something"
" you can keep the dime". I remember when calls cost a dime.
was a really good singer
one of musics best song writers but my all time favorite!
Always love Jim Croce's music he is part of our Rock and Roll Legends his music will always live within us👍👍👍✌✌✌
A lifetime award is needed here...a short but brilliant career...one of the VERY BEST OF ALL TIME.. nothing and no one of this calibre in these horrid years of fascists silencing voices of humans who don't fit the narrow confines of leftism.
would most young kids know what the line " Operator would you help me place this call" was all about
One of the greatest American folks poet and muisic writer ...forgotten...i love his music
hardly forgotten.
@@baneblackguard584 LOL, just was about to comment "not forgotten". Every musician I know is verse in his work.
Connie Churchwell again. still listen to his song every night! and Operator make the call. still not sure why? just can't help it! good to know I'm not the only one.....
This takes me back to my childhood.
timeless, beautiful writing and picking...
with every ping of that guitar
I've overcome the blow😢
He made so many great songs in his all to short lifetime...R.I.P. Jim..
💖
Think about the love that I thought it can save me....
He was my fathers favorit songwriter.thx for upload MfG
"I think about the Love that I thought would save me."
I used to sing this with my best friend in high school.
These were the lyrics of my early childhood in the smallest southwest Iowa town (as a Southern California kid) ....the soundtrack of my childhood! And then there was the Roller Derby Queen!!!
Such a horrible loss
Why people say that these days these songs are no longer applicable to modern times ..sure the telephone and smartphones are different but i feel bad these music edit-remains only with few of us .
Thank you show Transparent for showing me this, can't wait for season 2. Peace and Love all!
Such a beautiful song with very deep lyrics... At 44, Jim, I understand them so well......that is the way if feels tho...,
Ahh, the time when Jim wasted an operators time 😁
i think it still goes into her performance stats as a handled call. so, it's all good. 😀
this is one of the best songs written bar none. R.I.P. Jim and Maury/
Robert Rockwell Maury was the man. Phenomenal guitar player.
@@DIPPLEDORP who is Maury?
@@themacocko6311 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maury_Muehleisen
Something in my eyes....😢
Operator
Oh, could you help me place this call?
You see the number on the matchbook
Is old and faded
She's livin' in L. A
With my best old ex-friend Ray
A guy she said she knew well
And sometimes hated
Isn't that the way they say it goes?
But let's forget all that
And give me the number if you can find it
So I can call just to tell 'em
I'm fine and to show I've overcome the blow
I've learned to take it well
I only wish my words could just convince myself
That it just wasn't real
But that's not the way it feels
Operator
Oh. Could you help me place this call?
'Cause I can't read the number
That you just gave me
There's something in my eyes
You know it happens every time
I think about the love
That I thought would save me
Isn't that the way they say it goes?
But let's forget all that
And give me the number if you can find it
So I can call just to tell 'em
I'm fine and to show I've overcome the blow
I've learned to take it well
I only wish my words could just convince myself
That it just wasn't real
But that's not the way it feels
No, no, no, no
That's not the way it feels
Operator
Oh, let's forget about this call
There's no one there I really wanted to talk to
Thank you for your time
Oh, you've been so much more than kind
You can keep the dime
Isn't that the way they say it goes?
But let's forget all that
And give me the number if you can find it
So I can call just to tell 'em
I'm fine and to show I've overcome the blow
I've learned to take it well
I only wish my words could just convince myself
That it just wasn't real
But that's not the way it feels
So many great songs in few short years..He was a substitute teacher in a city I grew up in ( before my time)...He and Maury were gone too soon
Oi oi let’s have a big shout out for Jim’s backing singer and guitarist Maury Muehleisen. His playing and harmonising helped Jim enormously to become the brilliant act that he was 👏👏👏👏
Operator...Jim Croce
Amazing,amazing !
Wonderful song ! 🎶
Have to have my daily dosage of BS,,,,Bob Seger,,,,and his, Silver Bullet Band,,,,Detroit, Michigan,,,,,the Home of Rock and Roll,,,,Still the same,,,🎉
Jim Croce - Greatest Love Songs - Operator (That's Not The Way It Feels)
213.556 visualizaciones•26 sept. 2011 enjoy his voice at home by covid 19 time ok bless
you know , of all the shit that's going on in this world today , it sure is nice hearing his voice again .
This song transcends time.
All time
Favorite 😍 love from India I feel I'm alive everytime I listen to his music and voice
Yaa I notice that, Jim is universally loved everywhere...
My favorite song from that year. Singer, musician, and songwriter Jim Croce. One of a kind!
She really broke my heart
7 years
any 16 year olds in 2020? lol probably not
There's hope for the future if a 16 year old is listening
I hope you not looking like looking for a 16!🙏
@@HDB316 I am 15
@@theheat903 do you listen to John prime
Imagine if this guy lived longer than 31 what could have been
Jim.the.old.jim.groce..simple..the.best.on.this.kind.of.music..l.was.a.teenager..and..lm.growing..old.53.now.but.thank.god.stiil..enjoy..the.feelings..of.this.song..its..awesome..just.cant..belive..the.old.jim.past.away..many..years..ego.and.good.spirit..its.still...here..with..us
magic song from a genuis huge in Australia thank you mate
Bellissima
Great sound quality on this one! As a bass player, I appreciate this - the bass lines come across crystal clear! Good mix, good ear, bro.!
magic voice legend on time
Jim Croce - Greatest Love Songs - Operator (That's Not The Way It Feels)
246.143 visualizaciones•26 sept. 2011
If only I were a billionaire, I would reopen Croce's in downtown San Diego.
Prodigal Son brought me here...this time 😁😥🖤💔
REST IN PEACE FELLA!
Never noticed the bass line was so busy until now , good sound quality , t4p
his faith burned bright at both ends...
My mom and dad introduced me to him before I can remember I just love his songs they really touch my heart...and he was gone way too soon...
Wondering if Jim and Frank did music together? Both had a dark face and hair. And both were great at writing good music.
Still listening , will never forget JC , july 2024 ❤
One of the greatest singers of all time.
Thank you for your time.
What a Great Voice Legend JC.
I'm from The OA 😁
You can keep the dime, who knows today what a dime is? ;)
❤️ i wish my words could convince myself ☹️
Outstanding
How to explain to women you love.....