• The B.T.R.C. Collector’s Series
• 180G Audiophile Vinyl
• 3 Vinyl LP Set
• Release Date: 10/13/2023

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).

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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.”)

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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.

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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.”

TRACK LISTING:

– Disc 1 –

• 1You Don’t Mess Around with Jim
• 2Tomorrow’s Gonna Be a Brighter Day
• 3New York’s Not My Home
• 4Hard Time Losin’ Man
• 5Photographs and Memories
• 6Walkin’ Back to Georgia

– Disc 2 –

• 1Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)
• 2Time in a Bottle
• 3Rapid Roy (That Stock Car Boy)
• 4Box #10
• 5A Long Time Ago
• 6Hey Tomorrow

– Disc 3 –

• 1One Less Set of Footsteps
• 2Roller Derby Queen
• 3Dreamin’ Again
• 4Careful Man
• 5Alabama Rain
• 6A Good Time Man Like Me Ain’t Got No Business (Singin’ the Blues)

– Disc 4 –

• 1Next Time, This Time
• 2Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
• 3These Dreams
• 4Speedball Tucker
• 5It Doesn’t Have to Be That Way

– Disc 5 –

• 1I Got a Name (Stereo Version)
• 2Lover’s Cross
• 3Five Short Minutes
• 4Age
• 5Workin’ at the Car Wash Blues

– Disc 6 –

• 1I’ll Have to Say I Love You in a Song
• 2Salon and Saloon
• 3Thursday
• 4Top Hat Bar & Grille
• 5Recently
• 6The Hard Way Every Time