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

List Price: ~~$18.98~~
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Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4

MPN: 73890
UPC: 081227389024
EAN: 0081227389024
ASIN: B00013BN4I

Release Date: January 27, 2004
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The best single CD collection February 6, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

This is the best single CD Jim Croce collection available. It includes nearly all of his hits (it is missing his "Chain Gang Medley") and some of his classic album cuts. Highly recommended!

5 out of 5 stars

Phonographs and memories September 26, 2007
Fantastic album of all of Jim's great hits, brings back a lot of good memories. Tragic shame he was killed in a plane crash in 1973, who knows what more the world would have gained from his song writing.

5 out of 5 stars

Back In Time May 16, 2007
Close your eyes and you're listening to records again in High School. Just as good as I had remembered. How sad that he died so young, so talented.

5 out of 5 stars

Great Album March 23, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Best compilation of his work that I could find. Excellent price as well.

5 out of 5 stars

"It's what we've done/That makes us what we are." March 12, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

Jim Croce was at the peak of his talents when a tragic plane crash ended his life in 1973. The majestic "I Got A Name" had yet to be released, but when it did, it defined Jim Croce's short but brilliant stardom. br /br /"Like a fool I am and I'll always be,br /I've got a dream, I've got a dream.br /The can change their minds, but they can't change me,br /I've got a dream, I've got a dream.br /I know I can share it if you want me to,br /if you're going my way, I'll go with you."br /br /That "I Got A Dream" was not written by Croce hardly matters...it defined a free spirit that looked for others to join him on his quest. Afterwards, "Time In A Bottle" was plucked for re-issue of from his first album as a memoriam to Croce, and has become a signature song of not just the artist, but the decade he came from. br /br /That debut album, "You Don't Mess Around With Jim," and its title song introduced to Jim Croce by way of his first hit character song. Like so many of his other story songs, Croce managed to perfectly encapsulate blue collar folksongs with a dash of humor. Songs like "Rapid Roy," "Working at The Car Wash Blues" and yet another signature song, "Bad Bad Leroy Brown," were snappy and sing-a-long exact.br /br /There was also that everyman who had just a hint of sadness around the edges. On "Operator," Croce debates the whys and hows of a relationship that has crumbled. He also wasn't always a romantic idealist, as "Lover's Cross" sends an ex-lover off with "I guess you wanted a super guy, or maybe a super God." (The realist is counter-balanced perfectly by the shy encounter in "I'll Have to Say I Love You In A Song.")br /br /Croce's untimely death will always leave a question mark on where his muse would have ultimately led him. He seemed on a course that would have him paralleling the likes of James Taylor, Gordon Lightfoot or Cat Stevens as vanguards of seventies male singer-songwriters. With three albums that have maintained their integrity over 30 years of time's passage, this single disc "Classic Hits" culls together a life's work that will long remind us that Jim Croce became a folk icon not just because of his early departure, but because of the brilliance and accessibility of his work.

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