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    • Croce's wife Ingrid Croce [6] has an autobiographical cookbook, Thyme In A Bottle, in which she writes interesting anecdotes about Jim.

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    We settled in to enjoy our time alone together. Though Jim was expecting company the next day, avoiding confrontation he never told me that we were to be joined by an entire film crew! The next morning, 15 people from Acorn Productions descended upon our house to record a promotional film of Jim Croce at Home on the Farm.

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    After a year and a half of his working so very hard on the road, we were barely making ends meet, but Jim wouldn't talk about it. He hated questions as much as he hated confrontation, especially about money.

    He stormed out of our bedroom and went down to the kitchen table to brood. The next morning he woke me gently by singing his new song.

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    So I'll have to say "I love you" in a song. Croce was chosen by Fox and Gimbel to sing the song after hearing Croce sing for the first time on a Croce record they had been playing. Fox thought that Croce's voice was a perfect fit for both the song and the film.

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    Croce agreed to sing the song after hearing Fox play it over the telephone. The version of the song that appears in the film was recorded exclusively for the film. The version on the album is a totally different recording.

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    In a version of the song was used in a commercial for Western Air Lines. General Comment I love this song too. It expresses pride, not in the sense of a feeling of superiority, but in terms of self-respect. I think this song also recognizes that we owe a debt to our ancestors, and that it expresses gratitude for the opportunities that they didn't have.

    There is also an interesting progression from name to song to dream. It symbolizes identity, expression and fulfillment.

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    I Got a Name is the fifth and final studio album (and first posthumous release) by American singer-songwriter Jim Croce, released on December 1, "I Got a Name" is a single recorded by Jim Croce with lyrics by Norman Gimbel and music by Charles Fox. It was the first single from his album of the same.

    At the same time it seems to mark a life progression from childhood, to maturity, and completion with a soulmate. Like nearly all of Croce's work, this song is thought-provoking, written artfully, yet clearly and undertstandably, and prompts an emotional response. There was an error. This is exactly how I feel about this song. Flag TheGooseandtheFox on January 22, General Comment this song, to me, is about finding or creating individualism in a monotonous society. No Replies Log in to reply. In an interview with Billboard magazine, writer Norman Gimbel revealed the reason Croce chose to record the song, stating that "Jim liked it because his father had a dream for him but had died before his son's first success.

    The song features a narrator who is proud of who he is and where he is going in life, undeterred by the naysaying of others. He begins by declaring that like any plant or animal, he has a name of which he can be proud.

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    The narrator acknowledges, however, that not all people take pride in who they are in such a way: In the second verse, the narrator goes on to note that like the wind, birds, or even crying babies, he has a song to sing. Much like he does with his name, he holds his song up as a proud part of his identity, and resolves to sing it no matter what. Even if singing "gets [him] nowhere," by declaring his identity and worth to the world, the narrator can go to "nowhere" proudly.

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    In the final verse, the narrator declares that he will go forward in life "free," acknowledging that he will forever thus be a "fool. He then notes that while others may "change their minds" about him and his dream, their naysaying can never change his identity. Even so, the narrator is willing to "share" his dream with others, and announces that if anyone else is "going [his] way"—i. However, the culmination of the narrator's beliefs and pride in his identity is really in the chorus, as he declares that no matter what, he is joyfully "moving" and "rolling" himself "down the highway" of life.

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    All in all, as he moves forward in life, carrying his name, his song, and his dream as part of him, his biggest goal is to simply not focus on the past, but look to the present and future instead. The narrator ends by sharing his hope that he can live each day to the fullest, "moving ahead so life won't pass [him] by.

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    In , Billboard wrote, "The song is bigger and more grandiose in lyric and melody content than Croce's usual funky material which makes interesting contrast. Jim Croce performed the song live on an episode of the Midnight Special in We have a name to live up to.