Jim Croce’s three studio albums for ABC Records are being issued as a limited edition collection. The Definitive Croce compiles the Gold-certified albums released in 1972 and 1973. All three albums feature updated mixes by Paul Hicks. The title, arriving September 19, 2025, on 3-CDs or 3-LPs on color vinyl, is available for pre-order in the U.S. here, in Canada here and in the U.K. here.
Disc One 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 Two is the 1973’s Life and Times. The album reached the Top 10 and features the #1 gold-certified single “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.”
Disc Three is the singer-songwriter’s final studio LP, I Got a Name, released posthumously in 1973. The album reached #2 and features the Top 10 hits “I’ll Have To Say I Love You In A Song” and the title track, plus the Top 40 hit “Workin’ at the Car Wash Blues.” Croce died on September 20, 1973, at age 30, in a plane crash while on tour.
The vinyl set is available as a limited-edition on bone, sky blue and tangerine color vinyl in triple gatefold jacket.
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