Jim Croce's The Definitive Croce on 180g 3LP. This Release Is a Collection of His Unparalleled Run of Studio Albums From 1972 and 1973.
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 3LP 180 gram black vinyl 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 #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.”
LP1: You Don’t Mess Around with Jim
Side A
- You Don't Mess Around with Jim
- Tomorrow's Gonna Be a Brighter Day
- New York's Not My Home
- Hard Time Losin' Man
- Photographs and Memories
- Walkin' Back to Georgia
Side B
- Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)
- Time in a Bottle
- Rapid Roy (That Stock Car Boy)
- Box #10
- A Long Time Ago
- Hey Tomorrow
LP2: Life and Times
Side A
- One Less Set of Footsteps
- Roller Derby Queen
- Dreamin' Again
- Careful Man
- Alabama Rain
- A Good Time Man Like Me Ain't Got No Business (Singin' the Blues)
Side B
- Next Time, This Time
- Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
- These Dreams
- Speedball Tucker
- It Doesn't Have to Be That Way
LP3: I Got A Name
Side A
- I Got a Name (Stereo Version)
- Lover's Cross
- Five Short Minutes
- Age
- Workin' at the Car Wash Blues
Side B
- I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song
- Salon and Saloon
- Thursday
- Top Hat Bar & Grille
- Recently
- The Hard Way Every Time
