The Definitive Croce

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Time in a Bottle
  2:25
  4.3 ★
• 2
  Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)
  3:46
  4.8 ★
• 3
  I’ll Have to Say I Love You in a Song
  2:30
  4.8 ★
• 4
  You Don’t Mess Around with Jim
  2:59
  4.8 ★
• 5
  I Got a Name
  3:10
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Photographs & Memories
  2:05
  3.5 ★
• 7
  Workin’ at the Car Wash Blues
  2:33
  3.4 ★
• 8
  New York’s Not My Home
  3:06
  3.6 ★
• 9
  Age
  3:46
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Lover’s Cross
  3:01
  3.5 ★
• 11
  Tomorrow’s Gonna Be a Brighter Day
  2:50
  3.5 ★
• 12
  Walkin’ Back to Georgia
  2:50
  3.5 ★
• 13
  Hey Tomorrow
  2:43
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Dreamin’ Again
  2:39
  3.4 ★
• 15
  Hard Time Losin’ Man
  2:25
  4.0 ★
• 16
  Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy)
  2:43
• 17
  Thursday
  2:26
  3.4 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
  2:59
  4.6 ★
• 2
  One Less Set of Footsteps
  2:45
  3.4 ★
• 3
  It Doesn’t Have to Be That Way
  2:31
  3.6 ★
• 4
  A Good Time Man Like Me Ain’t Got No Business (Singin’ the Blues)
  2:03
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Roller Derby Queen
  3:28
  3.0 ★
• 6
  These Dreams
  3:11
  3.5 ★
• 7
  Speedball Tucker
  2:24
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Alabama Rain
  2:12
  3.2 ★
• 9
  The Hard Way Every Time
  2:26
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Box #10
  2:24
  5.0 ★
• 11
  Five Short Minutes
  3:32
  4.5 ★
• 12
  Top Hat Bar & Grill
  2:47
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Careful Man
  2:21
  5.0 ★
• 14
  Next Time, This Time
  2:51
• 15
  Salon & Saloon
  2:31
  2.6 ★
• 16
  Recently
  2:32
  4.0 ★
• 17
  A Long Time Ago
  2:19
  3.0 ★

More by Jim Croce

Classic Hits

Classic Hits 2004

Back to Back Hits

Back to Back Hits 1995

All-Time Greatest Hits

All-Time Greatest Hits 1994

Bad, Bad Leroy Brown & Other Favorites

Bad, Bad Leroy Brown & Other Favorites 1991

Jim Croce Live: The Final Tour

Jim Croce Live: The Final Tour 1989

Time in a Bottle: Jim Croce’s Greatest Love Songs

Time in a Bottle: Jim Croce’s Greatest Love Songs 1978

Release credits

• Bobby Matos
  percussion [1.7, 2.11, 2.16]
• Ellie Greenwich
  background vocals [12]
• Gary Chester
  drums (drum set) [3]
• George Devens
  percussion [1.3, 1.5, 1.9, 1.17, 2.12]
• Henry Gross
  guitar [11], slide guitar [7]
• Jim Croce
  background vocals [5, 9, 17], guitar [1.3, 1.7, 1.9-10, 1.17, 2.9, 2.11-12, 2.16], vocal [2.1-17, 1.1-15, 1.17]
• Joe Macho
  bass [1.3, 1.5, 1.9-10, 1.17, 2.12, 2.16]
• Marty Nelson
  background vocals [1.3, 2.9, 2.11]
• Maury Muehleisen
  acoustic guitar [2.9, 2.12, 2.16, 1.3, 1.5, 1.7, 1.10, 1.17], background vocals [5, 7, 17], guitar [9]
• Michael Kamen
  oboe [9], synthesizer [1.7, 2.9]
• Rick Marotta
  drums (drum set) [2.12, 1.5, 1.9, 1.17], percussion [16]
• Steve Gadd
  drums (drum set) [9, 11]
• Stu Woods
  bass [1.7, 2.9, 2.11]
• Tasha Thomas
  background vocals [11-12]
• Terence P. Minogue
  arranger [2.9, 2.11, 1.3, 1.5, 1.7], background vocals [9], conductor [1.3, 1.5, 1.7, 2.9, 2.11]
• Terry Cashman
  producer [2.10, 2.17, 1.1-2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8, 1.11-12, 1.15]
• Tommy West
  background vocals [2.9, 2.11-12, 1.3, 1.5, 1.7, 1.17], electric piano [3], guitar [5, 9], keyboard [2.16, 1.9, 1.17], piano [1.5, 2.9, 2.11-12, 2.15], producer [2.10, 2.17, 1.1-2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8, 1.11-12, 1.15]
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  The Definitive Croce

  2x CD
  25 May 2015
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  The Definitive Croce

  Digital Media
  25 May 2015
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  The Definitive Croce

  3x CD
  17 November 2023
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  The Definitive Croce

  3x 12" Vinyl
  2023