Jim Croce 50th Anniversary Collection CD

THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION covers the years 1969 through 1973 and includes 6 previously unreleased tracks and liner notes by Ingrid Croce.

All tracks have been digitally remastered from the original master tapes.

If the single disc Jim Croce collections PHOTOGRAPHS & MEMORIES and TIME IN A BOTTLE have you hungry for more of this tragic singer songwriter, then the 1992 double disc THE 50th ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION will definitely satisfy your appetite. At a whopping forty nine tracks in length, THE 50th ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION contains all the tracks from three key Croce releases from the early 70's - YOU DON'T MESS AROUND WITH JIM, I GOT A NAME, and LIFE AND TIMES - as well as previously unreleased songs, and selections from the '75 release THE FACES I'VE BEEN and from when he and his wife Ingrid performed as a duo in the late 60's (as well as a plethora of pictures and a bio written by Ingrid). Such folk rock classics as "You Don't Mess Around With Jim," "Photographs and Memories," "Time In A Bottle," "Operator (That's Not The Way It Feels)," "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" have only improved with age, while such lesser known selections as "New York's Not My Home" and the superb "Walkin' Back To Georgia" make THE 50th ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION the best and most extensive Jim Croce collection ever.

Personnel includes: Jim Croce (vocals, guitar); Ingrid Croce (vocals); Maury Muelheisen (guitar, harmonica, background vocals); Charlie Brown (guitars, harmonica); Tommy West (guitar, harmonium, piano, keyboards, percussion, background vocals); Alan Rolnick (guitar, background vocals); David Mansfield (pedal steel guitar); Dick Wiessman (banjo); Eric Weissberg (mandolin, fiddle); Michael Kamen (oboe, synthesizer); Kenny Ascher (organ); John Stockfish, Joe Macho, Stu Woods, Jim Ryan (bass); Tom Rossetter (drums, percussion); Gary Chester, Rick Marotta, Steve Gadd (drums); George Devens, Bobby Matos (percussion).

Producers: Terry Cashman, Gene Pistilli, Tommy West, Venet.

Personnel: Jim Croce (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, 12-string guitar); Jim Croce; Maury Muehleisen (guitar, acoustic guitar, harmonica, background vocals); Tommy West (guitar, acoustic guitar, piano, electric piano, harmonium, keyboards, percussion, background vocals); Charlie Brown (guitar, harmonica); Alan Rolnick (guitar, background vocals); Gene Pistilli, Henry Gross (guitar); Charlie Brown (electric guitar, harmonica); Rob Stevens (electric guitar); David Mansfield (pedal steel guitar); Eric Weissberg (mandolin, fiddle); Michael Kamen (oboe, synthesizer); Jim Ryan (bass instrument); Gary Chester , Steve Gadd (drums); Ellie Greenwich (percussion, background vocals); George Devens, Bobby Matos (percussion); David Spinozza, Mary Nelson, Alan Rolnick, Terry Cashman, The Briggs , Tasha Thomas (background vocals); Ingrid Croce (vocals); Dick Weissman (banjo); Kenny Ascher (organ); Rick Marotta, Tom Rossetter (drums, percussion).

Liner Note Author: Ingrid Croce.

Recording information: Epic Records, New York, NY (05/28/1969-09/13/1973); Hit Factory, New York, NY (05/28/1969-09/13/1973); Records Plant, New York, NY (05/28/1969-09/13/1973).

Photographers: Ingrid Croce; Paul Wilson; Benno Friedman.