In his third album in just two years, Jim Croce continued to mine the success of his previous efforts.

Released at the height of the singer-songwriter era, Life And Times put Jim Croce up there with the best of them.

Croce's debut ABC album was also his commercial breakthrough, topping the charts for five weeks, largely due to the comic, up-tempo title tune, a story song about competing pool hustlers, although Croce also reached the Top 20 with the change-of-pace ballad "Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels).