Jim Croce Bad Bad Leroy Brown: The Definitive Collection CD

Digitally mastered 1997 retrospective on the Recall labelfeaturing 39 tracks, including the original versions of allhis top 40 hits: the #1 smashes 'Time In A Bottle' & 'Bad,Bady Leroy Brown', plus 'You Don't Mess Around With Jim','Operator', 'One Less Set Of Footsteps', 'I Got A Name','Working At The Car Wash Blues' & 'I'll Have To Say I LoveYou In A Song'. Double slimline jewelcase. The full title is'Bad Boy Leroy Brown: The Definitive Collection'.

1998 saw the release of the Jim Croce best-of set BAD BAD LEROY BROWN: THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION. This two-disc set clocks in at 39 tracks overall, and covers much of the same ground as another Croce double-disc set--1992's THE 50th ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION. But while the '92 collection included many rarities, BAD BAD LEROY BROWN focuses primarily on material that was included on Croce's studio albums released during his lifetime, like YOU DON'T MESS AROUND WITH JIM and I GOT A NAME. Name a Croce classic, and chances are it's here, tops being the humorous "You Don't Mess Around With Jim," "Photographs and Memories," the haunting love ballad "Time In A Bottle," the wistful, lovelorn "Operator (That's Not The Way It Feels)," and the rocking bad-man anthem "Bad Bad Leroy Brown." Keying in on the high points of this folk-pop legend's discography, BAD BAD LEROY BROWN: THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION proves to be an expertly selected anthology.