STUCK IN THE VINYL AGAIN - JIM CROCE - PHOTGRAPHS & MEMORIES : HIS GREATEST HITS

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Good morning record enthusiasts and welcome back to the Thursday edition of Stuck In The Vinyl Again . In another example of we didn't want the week to get away, we didn't want the week to get away without mentioning that Monday (01/10/22) would have been Pennsylvania born folk and rock singer-songwriter, Jim Croce's 79th Birthday. He died  September 20, 1973 when he and five others perished in an airplane crash. Jim was 30 years old.  With him in mind, we spotlight his first greatest hits compilation, Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits. The record was released September 26, 1974 on the ABC label and produced by Terry Cashman and Tommy West. The disc collects 14 tracks from the three albums Life and Times, You Don't Mess Around with Jim, and I Got a Name, including his only #1 while he was alive, "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown".

1. "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" Life and Times 3:00

2. "Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)" You Don't Mess Around with Jim 3:49

3. "Photographs and Memories" You Don't Mess Around with Jim 2:04

4. "Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy)" You Don't Mess Around with Jim 2:45

5. "Time in a Bottle" You Don't Mess Around with Jim 2:28

6. "New York's Not My Home" You Don't Mess Around with Jim 3:07

7. "Workin' at the Car Wash Blues" I Got a Name 2:32

8. "I Got a Name" I Got a Name 3:13

9. "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song" I Got a Name 2:34

10. "You Don't Mess Around with Jim" You Don't Mess Around with Jim 3:07

11. "Lover's Cross" I Got a Name 3:05

12. "One Less Set of Footsteps" Life and Times 2:45

13. "These Dreams" Life and Times 3:12

14. "Roller Derby Queen" Life and Times 3:28

Jim Croce – guitar, rhythm guitar, lead vocals, backing vocals

Maury Muehleisen – lead acoustic guitar, backing vocals
The Briggs – backing vocals

Terry Cashman – backing vocals on "Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels")
Tommy West – bass, percussion, piano, rhythm guitar, keyboards, electric piano, backing vocals
Joe Macho – bass

Gary Chester – drums

Ellie Greenwich, Tasha Thomas - backing vocals
Peter Dino - arrangements

Willie "Slim" McCoy - backing vocals on "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown

George Devens – percussion
Steve Gadd – drums

Rick Marotta – drums, percussion
Bobby Matos – percussion

Marty Nelson – backing vocals
Alan Rolnick – guitar, backing vocals

Stu Woods – bass