Jim Croce - The Definitive Croce [3xLP - Blue/Cream/Orange]

Release Date: September 19th, 2025
Label: BMG

The Definitive Croce is a collection of Jim Croce's unparalleled run of gold-certified studio albums released in 1972 and 1973. All three albums feature updated mixes by Paul Hicks (George Harrison, John Lennon.) DISC 1 is the 1972 studio album You Don't Mess Around with Jim. The album reached #1 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 features the #1 gold-certified 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 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." Available as a limited-edition 3 LP set on bone, sky blue and tangerine color vinyl in triple gatefold jacket.

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Tracklist

1. You Don't Mess Around With Jim
2. You Don't Mess Around With Jim
3. Tomorrow's Gonna Be A Brighter Day
4. New York's Not My Home
5. Hard Time Losin' Man
6. Photographs And Memories
7. Walkin' Back To Georgia
8. Operator (That's Not The Way It Feels)
9. Time In A Bottle
10. Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy)
11. Box #10
12. A Long Time Ago
13. Hey Tomorrow
14. Life And Times
15. One Less Set Of Footsteps
16. Roller Derby Queen
17. Dreamin' Again
18. Careful Man
19. Alabama Rain
20. A Good Time Man Like Me Ain't Got No Business (Singin' The Blues)
21. Next Time, This Time
22. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
23. These Dreams
24. Speedball Tucker
25. It Doesn't Have To Be That Way
26. I Got A Name
27. I Got A Name
28. Lover's Cross
29. Five Short Minutes
30. Age
31. Workin' At The Car Wash Blues
32. I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song
33. Salon And Saloon
34. Thursday
35. Top Hat Bar And Grille
36. Recently
37. The Hard Way Every Time