Croce,Jim Definitive Croce CD

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."

1. *** YOU DONÆT MESS AROUND WITH JIM (1972) 2. You DonÆt Mess Around With Jim | 3. TomorrowÆs Gonna Be a Brighter Day | 4. New YorkÆs Not My Home | Hard Time LosinÆ Man | 5. Photographs and Memories | WalkinÆ Back to Georgia | 6. Operator (ThatÆs Not the Way it Feels) | 7. Time in a Bottle | Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy) | 8. Box #10 | A Long Time Ago | Hey Tomorrow 9. *** LIFE AND TIMES (1973) 10. One Less Set of Footsteps | Roller Derby Queen | 11. DreaminÆ Again | Careful Man | Alabama Rain | 12. A Good Tie Man Like Me AinÆt Got No Business 13. (SinginÆ the Blues) | Next Time, This Time | 14. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | These Dreams | 15. Speedball Tucker | It DoesnÆt Have to Be That Way 16. *** I GOT A NAME (1973) 17. I Got a Name | LoverÆs Cross | Five Short Minutes | 18. Age | WorkinÆ At the Car Wash Blues | 19. IÆll Have to Say I Love You in a Song | 20. Salon and Saloon | Thursday | 21. Top Hat Bar and Grille | Recently | 22. The Hard Way Every Tim