Jim Croce - The Definitive Croce *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 19th September 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

The Definitive Croce, a collection of Jim Croce’s unparalleled run of studio albums released in 1972 and 1973, is available again as a limited 3LP set on colour vinyl or a limited 3CD set.  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 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.

3CD TRACKLIST:

Disc 1

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 Roy (The Stock Car Boy)

10. Box #10

11. A Long Time Ago

12. Hey Tomorrow

Disc 2

1. One Less Set of Footsteps

2. Roller Derby Queen

3. Dreamin’ Again

4. Careful Man

5. Alabama Rain

6. A Good Time 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

Disc 3

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 Hat Bar and Grille

10. Recently

11. The Hard Way Every Time

3LP TRACKLIST:

Disc 1

Side A

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

Side B

7. Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)

8. Time in a Bottle

9. Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy)

10. Box #10

11. A Long Time Ago

12. Hey Tomorrow

Disc 2

Side C

1. One Less Set of Footsteps

2. Roller Derby Queen

3. Dreamin’ Again

4. Careful Man

5. Alabama Rain

6. A Good Time Man Like Me Ain't Got No Business (Singin' the Blues)

Side D

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

Disc 3

Side E

1. I Got a Name

2. Lover's Cross

3. Five Short Minutes

4. Age

5. Workin’ at the Car Wash Blues

Side F

6. I’ll Have to Say I Love You in a Song

7. Salon and Saloon

8. Thursday

9. Top Hat Bar and Grille

10. Recently

11. The Hard Way Every Time

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