"LeRoy Brown"

"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" is song written by folk rock singer Jim Croce. The song's character is a 6'4" man from the South Side of Chicago whose size, attitude, and tendency to carry weapons have given him a reputation in which he is adored by women and feared by men. He is said to dress in fancy clothes and wear diamond rings, and to own a custom Lincoln Continental and a Cadillac Eldorado. The song was a No. 1 hit for him, spending two weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in July 1973. It was still on the charts on September 20 when Croce died in a plane crash in Natchitoches, Louisiana.