Jim Croce Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits

Artist: Jim Croce
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music

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Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 075679257024
EAN: 0075679257024
ASIN: B000002JUC

Release Date: 1995-09-19

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Listmania:

Talented singer/songwriters and some classics
My Music to Write By
My favorite CD's, many different genres PART 2
Great albums on rotation...in no particular order
Music That Speaks
albums neither of us can live without (in order, i guess)
Essential Jim Croce
Relax to a Variety of Great Albums
Guilty pleasures of the musical kind
Deaths of Music, Part 1

Tracks:

Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
Operator (That's Not The Way It Feels)
Photographs & Memories
Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy)
Time In A Bottle
New York's Not My Home
Workin' At The Car Wash Blues
I Got A Name
I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song
You Don't Mess Around With Jim
Lover's Cross
One Less Set Of Footsteps
These Dreams
Roller Derby Queen

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Customer Reviews:

Croce's best.......2007-01-11

This CD has all of what I consider to be Croce's best known songs on it and is really worth buying. The sound quiality is great and if you're a Croce fan or just want to check him out, this is the CD to buy. The only bad thing is that he's not around to put out more great tunes like those on this CD.

A man lost in time........2006-05-10

Right after he died, he was everywhere on the radio. Since then he have disappear from the musical face of the earth. "Time in a Bottle", "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown","Don't Mess around with Jim" and "I got a name" are just the tip of this musical iceberg. His songs range from the touching "Photograph and Memories" to the fun hearthed "Car Wash Blues" and "Roller Derby Queen".

This album hits everything that you need from one of the Great Singer/Songwriter of the 70s. There are a lot of imposters out there, this is really the top of the chart and the only Croce ablum you need. The tragic is that his career was cut so short by his untimely death.

You Don't Mess Around With Jim.......2006-05-08

As with any greatest hits album you get someone else's idea of greatest hits. Yet if you only intend to buy one Jim Croce album you can not go wrong with this one. At least it has my favorites. In case you have not heard Jim before, the album is a mixture of fast and slow paced songs; yet all of them have his signature voice and style. These are his later recordings and were released just before he was killed in a plane crash. You may also want to pick up am album of his earlier recordings to see how he progresses through the years.

I wouldn't listen to the fact that he was genius.......2006-01-28

I'm probably like most guys who weren't around when Croce made his music. I know a handful of hits and thought the rest of this would be pleasant but bland folkish pop. (The disc is actually my wife's.) Once I found the time to sample this, I was pleasantly surprised for the most part. Croce seems able to both write convincing uptempo pop-rockers as well as melancholy balladry with an eye for the telling detail that marks the best lyricists.

HIGHLIGHTS:
"Bad,Bad Leroy Brown" was a man 'meaner than a junkyard dog' who meets his comeuppance when he dallies with the wrong man's wife. "Operator" is told stream of consciousness style..Croce trying to call and make amends with the woman who ran off with his best friend and faltering again and again ("Operator/oh could you help me place this call/'cause i can't read the number that you just gave me/There's something in my eyes/You know it happens every time/I think about the love that I thought would save me..") "Rapid Roy" combines Croce's musical attempt at an acoustic rendering of the classic Chuck Berry riff with a character study of an ex moonshine runner turned racer. Croce's wit is apparent here. ("He got a tattoo on his arm that says "Baby"/He got another one that just say "Hey") "Time in a Bottle" is a transcendent expression of love that deserves every bit of the airplay it gets. Anyone who argues this is "sappy" is devoid of heart. "Workin' at the Car Wash Blues" is rapid fire wordplay with a fantastic opening line. ("Well, i had just got out from the county prison/Doin' 90 days for non-support..") It's a shaggy dog tale of a man trying to pick up the pieces at a thankless job. "I Got a Name" is a classic plea for recoginition of self-worth amid the sea of people that is our world. "You Don't Mess Around with Jim" is another catchy tale of a tough guy being done in. Despite repeating the theme of "Leroy Brown" more or less, it's still a keeper. "Lover's Cross" is Croce's refusal to become a martyr for the sake of a woman.

LOWS:
"These Dreams" is a great lyric about breaking up ("Once we were lovers/But that was long ago/We lived together then/And now we do not even say hello..") but the melody comes off like an attempt to re-write "Time in a Bottle". "Roller Derby Queen" suffers from the same fate, sounding like a carbon copy of "You Don't Mess Around with Jim" musically. The lyric's also not terribly memorable.

BOTTOM LINE:
I've underestimated Croce. "Rapid Roy" and "Lover's Cross" are likely to become favourites of mine with more play, and I already knew I loved the "radio stuff" (Operator,You Don't Mess Around with Jim,Bad Bad Leroy Brown, Time in a Bottle) A nice collection from an underrated singer-songwriter.

Super Singer/Songwriter!.......2005-12-23

When Billy Joel wrote "Only the Good Die Young" Jim Croce could have easily made the list of the greats called back to God's house in the prime of their careers. Photographs and Memories Jim Croce's Greatest Hits is still to this date a big seller. This was his first Hit's CD. Jim was just scratching the surface of being a star. By producing 8 top 40 hits and released 3 #1 albums in a 2 year span, TV appearances, radio talk shows and a cartoon version of Bad Bad Leroy Brown (which can be seen on his DVD "Have You Heard Jim Croce Live" a very likeable artist. Could you imagine what this guy could have done if his career was able to continue? Great collection of hits.

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