Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
~ Recording by Jim Croce
Appears on releases
| # | Title | Length | Track Artist | Release Title | Release Artist | Release Group Type | Country/Date | Label | Catalog# |
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| 1.8 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:02 | Jim Croce | Life and Times | Jim Croce | Album |
| ABC Records (US, 65-79) | ABCX-769 |
| 1.1 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 2:57 | Jim Croce | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | Jim Croce | Single |
| Dunhill Goldies 45, ABC Records (US, 65-79) | D-2605 |
| 1.8 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:02 | Jim Croce | Life and Times | Jim Croce | Album |
| Lifesong Records | LS 6012 |
| 1.8 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:02 | Jim Croce | Life and Times (Quadraphonic Vinyl LP) | Jim Croce | Album |
| ABC Records (US, 65-79) | CQD-40007 |
| 1.1 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:01 | Jim Croce | Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| ABC Records (US, 65-79) | ABCD-835 |
| 1.8 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:03 | Jim Croce | Down the Highway | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| Lifesong Records | |
| 1.11 | Big Bad Leroy Brown | 3:03 | Jim Croce | His Greatest Songs | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| K‐tel (International budget record label) | NE 1059, NE1059 |
| 1.11 | Big Bad Leroy Brown | 3:03 | Jim Croce | Grandes Exitos | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| K‐tel (International budget record label) | 18L0223 |
| 1.8 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:01 | Jim Croce | The Legend Of Jim Croce: All His Greatest Hits | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| Roadrunner Records | RR34-9841 |
| 1.1 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:01 | Jim Croce | Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| 21 Records | 7 90467-2 |
| 1.1 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:01 | Jim Croce | Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| 21 Records | CD 90467 |
| 1.1 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:01 | Jim Croce | Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| Saja Records | 92570-2 |
| 1.8 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:00 | Jim Croce | Down the Highway | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| Castle Communications (primary imprint of Castle Communications PLC) | CLACD 118 |
| 1.20 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:03 | Jim Croce | The Jim Croce Collection | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| Castle Communications (primary imprint of Castle Communications PLC) | CCSCD 154 |
| 4.6 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:04 | Jim Croce | 20 Years of No. 1 Hits: 1956-1975 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| BMG (the former Bertelsmann Music Group, defunct since 2004-08-05; for releases dated 2008 and later, see annotation), Reader’s Digest | |
| 7.1 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:04 | Jim Croce | 20 Years of No. 1 Hits: 1956–1975 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| RCA (RCA Records: simple ‘RCA’ or ‘RCA’ with lightning bolt in circle) | RB4-243 |
| 1.1 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:01 | Jim Croce | Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| Castle Communications (primary imprint of Castle Communications PLC) | CLACD 119 |
| 1.2 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:02 | Jim Croce | Billboard: Top Rock’n’Roll Hits: 1973 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | R2 70634 |
| 1.8 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:01 | Jim Croce | Songbook | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| Commander Classics | 80044 |
| 1.8 | Bad Bad Leroy Brown | 3:04 | Jim Croce | Everlasting Pop Song, Volume 1 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Star Records (Dutch) | 84043-2 |
| 1.8 | Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown | 3:00 | Jim Croce | Jim Croce Smash Hits | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| Commander | 2648104 |
| 1.1 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:01 | Jim Croce | Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| BR Music (NL-based reissue label) | BRCD 119 |
| 1.2 | Bad Bad Leroy Brown | 3:01 | Jim Croce | The Legendary Jim Croce | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
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| 2.1 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:01 | Jim Croce | Singers & Songwriters | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Special Products, Time–Life Music | OPCD-4528, R103-33 |
| 2.1 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:02 | Jim Croce | The Story of... - Time in a Bottle | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| BR Music (NL-based reissue label) | BS 8003-2 |
| 1.2 | Bad Bad Leroy Brown | 3:00 | Jim Croce | Yesterdays Gold 1973 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| BR Music (NL-based reissue label) | th 85732 |
| 3.17 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | ?:?? | Jim Croce | 25 Years of #1 Hits | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Special Products, Time–Life Music | OPCD-8501, R103-09 |
| 1.1 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:01 | Jim Croce | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown & Other Favorites | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation | CEMA Special Markets (a division of Capitol‐EMI Music, Inc.) | 4XL 57445 | |
| 1.10 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:00 | Jim Croce | De Pre Historie 1973 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| BMG Ariola (company mostly named as distributor) | 260.745 |
| 1.1 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:01 | Jim Croce | Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| Castle Communications (primary imprint of Castle Communications PLC) | 37405034 |
| 1.7 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 2:59 | Jim Croce | Sounds of the Seventies: 1973, Take Two | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Special Products, Time–Life Music | OPCD-2623, SOD-14 |
| 3.13 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:01 | Jim Croce | The Rock ’n’ Roll Album | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Reader’s Digest | RDCD4-605 |
| 3.13 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:01 | Jim Croce | The Rock ’n’ Roll Album | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Reader’s Digest Music | RDCD4-605 |
| 1.9 | Bad Bad Leroy Brown | 3:02 | Jim Croce | The Rock Collection: Rock USA | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Time–Life Music | TL 527/06 |
| 2.11 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:03 | Jim Croce | The 50th Anniversary Collection | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| Saja Records | 7 92205-2 |
| 2.11 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 2:59 | Jim Croce | 50th Anniversary Collection | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| Unidisc (Canadian disco and dance music label) | AGEK2-2022 |
| 1.15 | Bad Bad Leroy Brown | 3:01 | Jim Croce | Arbeidsvitaminen, Volume 4 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Disky | DCD 5264 |
| 1.8 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:03 | Jim Croce | Down the Highway | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| Atlantic (Warner Music imprint), Saja Records | 92569-2 |
| 1.13 | Bad Bad Leroy Brown | 3:01 | Jim Croce | Good Morning Vietnam, Volume 2 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Disky | DCD 5251 |
| 1.9 | Bad Bad Leroy Brown | 3:01 | Jim Croce | Million Sellers 18: The Seventies | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Disky | MSCD 1918 |
| 1.1 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:01 | Jim Croce | Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| Saja Records | RTMCD 500 |
| 1.5 | Bad Bad Leroy Brown | 3:00 | Jim Croce | Rock & Roll’s Greatest Hits of the 70’s Volume 2 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| CEMA Special Markets (a division of Capitol‐EMI Music, Inc.) | S21-57805 |
| 1.2 | Bad Bad Leroy Brown | 3:00 | Jim Croce | Superhits: 1973 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Time–Life Music | SUD-13 |
| 2.11 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:03 | Jim Croce | The 50th Anniversary Collection | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| Essential! Records (division of Castle Communications) | ESDCD 188 |
| 1.1 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:01 | Jim Croce | Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| Saja Records | 1CD 7755 |
| 3.17 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:00 | Jim Croce | Best of the World | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Das Beste aus Reader’s Digest | HIT 21725572 |
| 1.1 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:01 | Jim Croce | Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| Unidisc (Canadian disco and dance music label) | AGEK-2020 |
| 1.8 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:01 | Jim Croce | Stereoplay Special CD 73: Singer and Songwriter | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| stereoplay | CD 27100739 A |
| 1.17 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:03 | Jim Croce | 24 Karat Gold in a Bottle | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| DCC Compact Classics, Saja Records | GZS-1060 |
| 1.10 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:00 | Jim Croce | Hammer Down | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
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| 1.17 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 2:59 | Jim Croce | 24 Karat Gold In A Bottle | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| ABC Records (US, 65-79) | GZS-1060 |
| 3.1 | Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown | 3:01 | Jim Croce | All-Time Greatest Hits | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| CEMA Special Markets (a division of Capitol‐EMI Music, Inc.), Saja Music Co. | 15100, S23-17830 |
| 1.1 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:01 | Jim Croce | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown & Other Favorites | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| CEMA Special Markets (a division of Capitol‐EMI Music, Inc.) | S21-57445 |
| 1.18 | Bad Bad Leroy Brown | 3:00 | Jim Croce | Country Collection 2 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Arcade Deutschland GmbH (DE branch of Dutch "Arcade" label; this is not an imprint!) | 8800216 |
| 2.19 | Bad Bad Leroy Brown | 3:00 | Jim Croce | Mega Jukebox Top 100 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Arcade (record label founded in 1970s by Herman Heinsbroek; use this as its universal imprint) | 01 8390 6 |
| 1.1 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:03 | Jim Croce | The No. 1 Hits 1973 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| SR International | 79 601 1 |
| 1.1 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:00 | Jim Croce | Time in a Bottle: His Greatest Hits | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| Woodford Music | WMCD 5703 |
| 1.1 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:01 | Jim Croce | Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| Atlantic (Warner Music imprint), Saja Records | 92570-2 |
| 1.2 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 2:59 | Jim Croce | AM Gold: 1973 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Time–Life Music, Warner Special Products | AM1-03, OPCD-2658A |
| 1.2 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:01 | Jim Croce | Jim Croce : The Ultimate Collection : Platinum | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| EMI (EMI Records, since 1972) | |
| 1.4 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:00 | Jim Croce | Time in a Bottle (The Complete Collection) | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| BR Music (NL-based reissue label) | BX 501-2 |
| 2.13 | Bad Bad Leroy Brown | 3:01 | Jim Croce | Good Morning Vietnam | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Disky | HR 863812 |
| 1.14 | Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown | 3:01 | Jim Croce | 70’s Party Mix | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| PolyGram Special Markets, Warner Special Products | DPSM 5173, OPCD-4574 |
| 1.12 | Bad Bad Leroy Brown | 3:00 | Jim Croce | And the Beat Goes On: No. 1 Hits | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| It’s Music | 22 811 |
| 1.6 | Bad Bad Leroy Brown | 3:00 | Jim Croce | Jabbedabbedoe! | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| CNR Music (Netherlands) | 2102037 |
| 1.1 | Bad Bad Leroy Brown | 3:02 | Jim Croce | The Ultimate Collection of Rock & Roll, Volume 5: #1 Hits of the 70's | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Metacom | MSD 35991 |
| 1.6 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:01 | Jim Croce | Home Alone 3 | Various Artists | Album + Soundtrack |
| Hollywood Records (a label of Disney Music Group) | HR-62138-2 |
| 1.6 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:01 | Jim Croce | Home Alone 3 | Various Artists | Album + Soundtrack |
| Hollywood Records (a label of Disney Music Group) | |
| 1.2 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:00 | Jim Croce | Best of Jim Croce | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| Music Club (Demon Music Club, UK) | MCCD 295 |
| 1.4 | Bad Bad Leroy Brown | 3:02 | Jim Croce | Billboard Top Rock & Roll Hits: 1973 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Special Projects | 9548350572 |
| 2.5 | Bad Bad Leroy Brown | 3:00 | Jim Croce | De J@ren ' 70 - Deel 4 - 1973 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| EVA (for use with NL/BE/FR releases only. see annotation) | 74321 419912 |
| 2.15 | Bad Bad Leroy Brown | 3:01 | Jim Croce | Suddenly ’70s | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Razor & Tie | DIR 9001-2 |
| 1.3 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:00 | Jim Croce | Superstars of the 70s: 1971-1979 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
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| 1.11 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:01 | Jim Croce | Jim Croce: Bad Bad Leroy Brown: The Definitive Collection | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| Recall 2cd (UK 2cd re-issue label, cat #s SMD CD ###) | SMD CD 102X |
| 1.7 | Bad Bad Leroy Brown | 3:01 | Jim Croce | Sounds of the Seventies: Super 70s | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Time–Life Music, EMI-Capitol Special Markets | 72438-19912-2-0, M18133 |
| 1.7 | Bad Bad Leroy Brown | 3:01 | Jim Croce | #1 Hits: 1970 - 1974 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
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| 1.1 | Bad Bad Leroy Brown | 3:00 | Jim Croce | 70s Heavy Hitters: #1 Pop Hits | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| K‐tel (International budget record label) | 3987-2 |
| 2.3 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:01 | Jim Croce | American Pie: Great Tales and Sagas in Song | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Reader’s Digest Music | |
| 1.2 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:02 | Jim Croce | The Very Best Of | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| Castle Select | SELCD 505 |
| 1.9 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:02 | Jim Croce | I Got a Name - Best | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| Zounds, Vereinigte Motor-Verlage GmbH & Co. KG (do not use this as an imprint!) | CD 2700020091 B |
| 2.1 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:03 | Jim Croce | The Definitive Collection: Time in a Bottle | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| Essential! Records (division of Castle Communications) | ESACD 781 |
| 2.14 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:00 | Jim Croce | All Time Greatest Pub Anthems | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Startel Entertainment | STELCD0094 |
| 1.4 | Bad Bad Leroy Brown | 3:00 | Jim Croce | AM Gold: Radio Hits '69-'74: Mellow Hits | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Time–Life Music, SBME Special Markets | M183-35, TCD-829 |
| 1.1 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | ?:?? | Jim Croce | American Bandstand’s Greatest Hits of the Century: 70’s | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| EMI-Capitol Special Markets, EMI‐Capitol Music Special Markets | 72435-22139-2-4-0, 72435-24033-2-5-0 |
| 1.1 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:02 | Jim Croce | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| LaserLight Digital | 21164 |
| 2.10 | Bad Bad Leroy Brown | 2:59 | Jim Croce | Good Morning Vietnam | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Disky | BX 886892 |
| 10.16 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 2:59 | Jim Croce | The Best Singles of All Time | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Startel Entertainment | SAN0028, SANCD0028A |
| 1.9 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:02 | Jim Croce | The Jim Croce Collection | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| Castle Pie | |
| 1.9 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:02 | Jim Croce | Entertainment Weekly: The Greatest Hits 1973 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Buddha Records (1998–2002, formerly known as Buddah Records) | 74465 99735 2 |
| 2.14 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 2:59 | Jim Croce | Classic Rock: The Immortals | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Reader’s Digest | 0350908-1/2/3 |
| 1.7 | Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown | 3:03 | Jim Croce | Radio Days | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Special Products, Rock River Communications | OPCD-1919 |
| 1.7 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:01 | Jim Croce | The Singles | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| BR Music (NL-based reissue label) | BX 540-2 |
| 1.21 | Bad Bad Leroy Brown | 3:00 | Jim Croce | Top 40 Hitdossier 1973–1974 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Universal TV (Netherlands & Belgium) | 520 806-2 |
| 1.8 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:00 | Jim Croce | Once Upon a Song | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
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| 1.8 | Bad Bad Leroy Brown | 3:00 | Jim Croce | Once Upon a Song | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Sony Music (global brand, excluding JP, owned by Sony Music Entertainment) | A52573 |
| 1.1 | Bad Bad Leroy Brown | 3:02 | Jim Croce | Singer Songwriter | Jim Croce | Album + Compilation |
| EMI Plus | 724357626125 |
| 2.7 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:02 | Jim Croce | Singers and Songwriters: Mid-'70s | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Special Products, Time–Life Music | OPCD-2797, R812-08 |
| 1.20 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:00 | Jim Croce | Skeive Skiver 4 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
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| Promotion | |||||||||
| 1.10 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 2:59 | Jim Croce | Rock n' Pop - Natwest Live! | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| CEMA Special Markets (a division of Capitol‐EMI Music, Inc.) | S21-18472 |
| 1.8 | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | 3:00 | Jim Croce | Open Road Rock, Volume 3 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| BMG Direct Marketing, Inc. (BMG company that owned their direct marketing company/club editions) | DPC1-1463 |
Relationships
| vocals: | Jim Croce (on 1972-06-02) |
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| recorded at: | The Hit Factory in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States (on 1972-06-02) |
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| recording of: | Bad, Bad Leroy Brown (on 1972-06-02) |
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Related works
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
| lyricist and composer: | Jim Croce |
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| publisher: | American Broadcasting Music, Inc. Blendingwell Music, Inc. Denjac Music Co. DenJac Music Company MCA Music (not for release label use! this is a music publisher, ASCAP-affiliated) MCA, Inc. (this was the US media company that became Universal Studios, Inc. in Dec 1996) |
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| later translated versions: | De rat van de stad Supertyp |
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| later versions: | Bye bye Leroy Brown |