Talk:Bad, Bad Leroy Brown

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Bad, Bad Leroy Brown article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Chicago Low‑importance

	Chicago portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Chicago, which aims to improve all articles or pages related to Chicago or the Chicago metropolitan area.ChicagoWikipedia:WikiProject ChicagoTemplate:WikiProject ChicagoChicago
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Songs

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Songs, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of songs on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.SongsWikipedia:WikiProject SongsTemplate:WikiProject Songssong

Rock music Low‑importance

	Rock music portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Rock music, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Rock music on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Rock musicWikipedia:WikiProject Rock musicTemplate:WikiProject Rock musicRock music
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Bad Lee Brown

I've come across a couple of speculative references that the song might have been inspired by the character "Bad Lee Brown" in the traditional song "Little Sadie". Anyone know anything about this? BobFromBrockley (talk) 11:26, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Pop culture

in the song "Soul By the Pound" by the rapper "Common" the opening lines are "I'm as bad, bad / as Leroy Brown, Brown." Possibly worth a mention? Thoughts? I mean if the Kid Rock lyric is worth a mention, surely Common's lyrics warrant it aswell? 219.89.34.34 (talk) 09:46, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Inspiration for the Song

This section says that the inspiration for the song was a fellow he met in the Army at Fort Jackson; however the cited reference:

http://www.superseventies.com/1973_2singles.html

quotes Croce as saying they met in Fort Dix, New Jersey. On Track 12 of "Have You Heard Jim Croce Live," Croce says that it was Fort Jackson, S.C.

Anyone know what if anything is true about this? Ileanadu (talk) 03:06, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've seen it repeated that it was Fort Jackson. I grew up a few blocks away, and I know it's been printed in numerous articles. He says it in this performance. Have You Heard: Jim Croce Live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTrsS8SGwx4 129.252.113.199 (talk) 13:19, 19 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The following article refers to a biography which was co-authored by his widow Ingrid. It indicates that there was a platoon sergeant at Fort Jackson "whose real name was said to be Leroy Brown" but that the character in the song "was a composite of the personalities of several people he had met", including the platoon sergeant and a private from Fort Dix: https://www.thecolumbiastar.com/articles/fort-jackson-played-a-role-in-two-of-jim-croces-greatest-hits/ Gmporr (talk) 16:46, 5 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Meet the Browns

In the Tyler Perry sitcom Meet the Browns, the main character's first name is Leroy. Contrary to the tough, nasty Leroy Brown in the song, this Brown is a foppish milquetoast. --The_Iconoclast (talk) 22:59, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to one external link on Bad, Bad Leroy Brown. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add {{cbignore}} after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add {{nobots|deny=InternetArchiveBot}} to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:

Added archive https://web.archive.org/20090925055303/http://theenvelope.latimes.com:80/factsheets/awardsdb/env-awards-db-landing,0,3713019.htmlstory to http://theenvelope.latimes.com/factsheets/awardsdb/env-awards-db-landing,0,3713019.htmlstory

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—^{cyberbot II}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 07:05, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

"Cover version and tribute"

Is this a better section heading than "In Culture"? It contains one cover, by Frank Sinatra, and a "tribute" track by Queen. Martinevans123 (talk) 19:27, 18 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]