The Essential Collection

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  You Don’t Mess Around With Jim
  3:03
  4.8 ★
• 2
  Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
  3:02
  5.0 ★
• 3
  Roller Derby Queen
  3:29
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Workin’ at the Car Wash Blues
  2:33
  3.4 ★
• 5
  Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy)
  2:46
  3.0 ★
• 6
  A Good Time Man Like Me Ain’t Got No Business (Singin’ the Blues)
  2:06
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Hard Time Losin’ Man
  2:28
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Box #10
  2:27
  5.0 ★
• 9
  Mississippi Lady
  3:59
• 10
  Tomorrow’s Gonna Be a Brighter Day
  2:53
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Speedball Tucker
  2:27
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Top Hat Bar and Grill
  2:49
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Walkin’ Back to Georgia
  2:52
  3.5 ★
• 14
  A Long Time Ago
  2:23
  3.0 ★
• 15
  Hey Tomorrow
  2:46
  4.0 ★
• 16
  Five Short Minutes
  3:27
  4.5 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  Time in a Bottle
  2:28
  4.5 ★
• 2
  Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)
  3:50
  4.8 ★
• 3
  New York’s Not My Home
  3:08
  3.6 ★
• 4
  Photographs and Memories
  2:08
  3.6 ★
• 5
  Age
  3:45
  4.0 ★
• 6
  One Less Set of Footsteps
  2:48
  3.4 ★
• 7
  Next Time, This Time
  2:54
• 8
  Alabama Rain
  2:15
  3.2 ★
• 9
  It Doesn’t Have to Be That Way
  2:35
  3.6 ★
• 10
  Dreamin’ Again
  2:42
  3.4 ★
• 11
  I Got a Name
  3:13
  4.0 ★
• 12
  I’ll Have to Say I Love You in a Song
  2:33
  4.8 ★
• 13
  Lover’s Cross
  3:04
  3.5 ★
• 14
  Which Way Are You Goin’
  2:20
• 15
  Careful Man
  2:23
  5.0 ★
• 16
  Recently
  2:34
  4.0 ★
• 17
  The Hard Way Every Time
  2:27
  4.0 ★

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 [1.4, 1.16, 2.16]
• Ellie Greenwich
  background vocals [12]
• Gary Chester
  drums (drum set) [12]
• George Devens
  percussion [2.5, 2.11-12, 1.12]
• Henry Gross
  guitar [16], slide guitar [4]
• Jim Croce
  background vocals [5, 11], guitar [2.5, 2.12-13, 2.16-17, 1.4, 1.12, 1.16], vocal
• Joe Macho
  bass [1.12, 2.5, 2.11-13, 2.16]
• Marty Nelson
  background vocals [1.16, 2.12, 2.17]
• Maury Muehleisen
  acoustic guitar [1.4, 1.12, 2.11-13, 2.16-17], background vocals [2.11, 1.4], guitar [5]
• Michael Kamen
  oboe [17], synthesizer [1.4, 2.17]
• Rick Marotta
  drums (drum set) [2.5, 2.11, 1.12], percussion [16]
• Steve Gadd
  drums (drum set) [2.17, 1.16]
• Stu Woods
  bass [1.4, 1.16, 2.17]
• Tasha Thomas
  background vocals [12, 16]
• Terence P. Minogue
  arranger [1.4, 1.16, 2.11-12, 2.17], background vocals [17], conductor [2.11-12, 2.17, 1.4, 1.16]
• Terry Cashman
  producer [1.1, 1.5, 1.7-10, 1.13-14, 2.1-4, 2.14]
• Tommy West
  background vocals [1.4, 1.12, 1.16, 2.11-12, 2.17], electric piano [12], guitar [5, 11], keyboard [5, 16], piano [1.12, 1.16, 2.11, 2.17], producer [2.1-4, 2.14, 1.1, 1.5, 1.7-10, 1.13-14]
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Issues

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  The Essential Collection

  2x CD
  2005