Jim Croce - The Definitive Croce [3CD]

BMG

£17.85

Format: 3 x CD
Catalogue No.: 4050538896190
Release Date: 13 Oct 2023
Genre: Folk/Americana

BMG celebrates what would have been JIM CROCE’s 80th birthday and marks 50 years since his untimely passing with The Definitive Croce, a collection of his unparalleled run of studio albums released in 1972 and 1973 — available as a limited 3LP (180 gram black vinyl) or 3CD set. Disc 1 is the 1972 studio album You Don’t Mess Around with Jim. The album reached #1 and is certified GOLD, and features the #1 single “Time In A Bottle,” plus the hits “You Don’t Mess Around With Jim” and “Operator (That’s Not The Way It Feels.”)

Disc 2 is the 1973 studio album Life and Times. The album reached the Top 10 and is certified GOLD, and features the GOLD #1 single “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown,” plus the hit “One Less Set Of Footsteps.

Disc 3 is the final Jim Croce studio album I Got A Name, released in 1973. The album reached #2 and is certified GOLD, and features the Top 10 Hits “I’ll Have To Say I Love You In A Song,” and “I Got A Name” plus the Top 40 Hit “Workin’ At The Car Wash Blues.”

You Don’t Mess Around With Jim
1. You Don’t Mess Around With Jim
2. Tomorrow’s Gonna Be A Brighter Day
3. New York’s Not My Home
4. Hard Time Losin’ Man
5. Photographs and Memories
6. Walkin’ Back To Georgia
7. Operator (That’s Not The Way It Feels)
8. Time In A Bottle
9. Rapid Royy (The Stock Car Boy)
10. A Long Time Ago
11. Hey Tomorrow

Life and Times
1. One Less Set of Footsteps
2. Roller Derby Queen
3. Dreamin’ Again
4. Careful Man
5. Alabama Rain
6. A Good Tie Man Like Me Ain’t Got No Business (Singin’ The Blues)
7. Next Time, This Time
8. Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown
9. These Dreams
10. Speedball Tucker
11. It Doesn’t Have To Be That Way

I Got A Name
1. I Got A Name
2. Lover’s Cross
3. Five Short Minutes
4. Age
5. Workin’ At The Car Wash Blues
6. I’ll Have To Say I Love You In A Song
7. Salon And Saloon
8. Thursday
9. Top Har Bar and Grille
10. Recently
11. The Hard Way Every Time