• "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" is an uptempo, strophic story song written by American folk rock singer Jim Croce. Released as part of his 1973 album Life and Times...
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  • ring name "Bad Bad" Leroy Brown, was an American professional wrestler. He took his ring name from the Jim Croce song "Bad, Bad" Leroy Brown, which also...
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  • The Bad Seed is a 1956 American psychological thriller film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Henry Jones and Eileen...
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  • Maxwell Anderson and into an Academy Award-nominated film directed by Mervyn LeRoy in 1956. Eight-year-old Rhoda Penmark appears to be what every little girl...
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  • January 1973. The album contains the No. 1 Billboard chart hit "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown". Croce was nominated for two 1973 Grammy awards in the "Pop Male...
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    singles "One Less Set of Footsteps", "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown", and "It Doesn't Have to Be That Way". "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" achieved great success, reaching...
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    Croce died. The follow-up album, Life and Times, included the song "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown", Croce's only No. 1 hit during his lifetime. On September 20, 1973...
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  • Leroy Brown (wrestler) (1950–1988), American professional wrestler Leroy Brown, fictional protagonist of the book series Encyclopedia Brown "Bad, Bad...
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  • goes to live with Richard. Blair Brown as Christine Penmark Lynn Redgrave as Monica Breedlove David Carradine as Leroy Jessup Carrie Wells as Rachel Penmark...
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    Allen Coage (redirect from Bad News Brown)
    Pro-Wrestling and Stampede Wrestling under the ring names Bad News Brown, Buffalo Allen, and Bad News Allen. Coage was born in Harlem, New York City and...
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    three singles in 1973, including a No. 33 cover of Jim Croce's "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown". He recorded for Homa Records in the 1970s but did not have any...
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    featured Jim Morrison. "Remember bad bad Leroy Brown, Hey Jimmy touched us with that song" refers to "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" by Jim Croce. "Bobby gave us...
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  • nearby Endicott N.Y. The team was known for using the Jim Croce song "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" as their entrance theme. The Broome County Dusters originated as...
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  • Hammerstein, Jerome Kern) – 2:27 "Which Way Are You Goin'?" – 2:19 "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" – 3:01 "Walkin' Back to Georgia" – 2:50 "Box #10" – 2:26 "Speedball...
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  • on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, kept from the number 1 spot by "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" by Jim Croce. It was the duo's fifth number two hit and makes them...
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  • "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"". Stereogum. Retrieved June 18, 2023. Three Dog Night's ecstatic mystic-gospel singalong "Shambala" peaked at #3 behind "Bad, Bad...
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  • admiral Xavier Leroy (born 1968), French computer scientist and programmer "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown", protagonist of a song by Jim Croce "Leroy Johnson", a...
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    a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" Tony Orlando and Dawn 2 "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" Jim Croce 3 "Killing Me Softly with His Song" Roberta Flack 4 "Let's...
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  • comeuppance from someone even tougher— in his later hit single "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown". Cash Box described it as being "perfectly polished and honed for...
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    rounds while trying to recover her world title. Nevertheless, Ali suffered a bad cut on her right eyelid for the first time in her career, inflicted by Mahfood...
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  • and Phil Cunningham as well as Rambo & Leroy's Jake Evans. The name of the band is taken from the 1992 film Bad Lieutenant directed by Abel Ferrara, which...
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  • more prominent. The title of "Bring Back That Leroy Brown" alludes to the then-recent hit "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" by American singer-songwriter Jim Croce, who...
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  • 5. "School Day (Ring! Ring! Goes the Bell)" Chuck Berry 2:42 6. "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" (version not in the film) Jim Croce 3:01 7. "Green-Eyed Lady" (version...
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  • constant touring becoming a grind, and a No. 1 record on the charts ("Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"), Muehleisen and Croce returned to New York's The Hit Factory in...
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    or using "Downtown" to convey lower socioeconomic status (as in "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" by Jim Croce). Cultural diversity and media literacy educators use...
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  • Me Try Again" "Autumn in New York" "I've Got You Under My Skin" "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" "Angel Eyes" "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" "The House I Live...
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  • fast-paced humorous numbers like "You Don't Mess Around with Jim" and "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown." Yet when the need arises for quieter vocals carrying more depth...
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    News Country Awards in 1994. In 1997, Carnes recorded a cover of "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" for a tribute album to Jim Croce. Numerous country artists recorded...
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  • "Will It Go Round in Circles" A&M 2 299 July 21, 1973 Jim Croce "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" ABC 2 300 August 4, 1973 Maureen McGovern "The Morning After" 20th...
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  • "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" (1973) "I Got a Name" (1973) "Time in a Bottle" (1973)...
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