Editing You Don't Mess Around with Jim (section)

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{{Infobox album
| name       = You Don't Mess Around with Jim
| type       = Album
| artist     = [[Jim Croce]]
| cover      = Jim Croce - You Don't Mess Around with Jim.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = April 1972<ref>Strong, Martin Charles & John Peel [https://books.google.com/books?id=_WoRAPJQ58sC&dq=Bad%2C+Bad+Leroy+Brown%3A+Jim+Croce%27s+Greatest+Character+Songs&pg=PA357 The Great Rock Discography]{{dead link|date=March 2015}}</ref>
| recorded   = 1971–1972
| venue      =
| studio     = [[Hit Factory]], New York City
| genre      = [[Folk rock]]
| length     = 33:22
| label      = [[ABC Records|ABC]] <small>(USA)</small><br>[[Vertigo Records|Vertigo]] <small>(UK)</small>
| producer   = [[Terry Cashman]], [[Tommy West (producer)|Tommy West]]
| prev_title = [[Jim & Ingrid Croce]]
| prev_year  = 1969
| next_title = [[Life and Times (Jim Croce album)|Life and Times]]
| next_year  = 1973
| misc       = {{Singles
 | name        = You Don't Mess Around with Jim
 | type        = studio
 | single1     = [[You Don't Mess Around with Jim (song)|You Don't Mess Around with Jim]]
 | single1date = July 1972
 | single2     = [[Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)]]
 | single2date = October 1972
 | single3     = [[Time in a Bottle]]
 | single3date = November 1973
}}
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[Allmusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="AllMusic" />
| rev2 = ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|Christgau's Record Guide]]''
| rev2Score = B−<ref>{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]|publisher=[[Ticknor & Fields]]|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: C|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=C&bk=70|access-date=February 23, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev3score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2007 |publisher=Omnibus Press |page=374 |isbn=9781846098567 |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofpo0000unse_v3u2/page/374/mode/2up |accessdate=20 September 2024}}</ref>
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'''''You Don't Mess Around with Jim''''' is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter [[Jim Croce]]; it released in April 1972 by [[ABC Records]].