Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits

by Jim Croce

Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 26 September 1974
  • Label: ABC
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 41:29
  • Community rating: 4.04/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Released exactly one year after his tragic death in an aviation accident, this retrospective solidified the working-class troubadour's massive posthumous legacy. The warm, conversational acoustic arrangements and poignant character studies became defining staples of 1970s soft rock radio.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, melodic, storytelling, classic, earnest

Tracklist

  1. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown (3:02)
  2. Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels) (3:50)
  3. Photographs & Memories (2:08)
  4. Rapid Roy (That Stock Car Boy) (2:46)
  5. Time in a Bottle (2:28)
  6. New York's Not My Home (3:09)
  7. Workin’ at the Car Wash Blues (2:34)
  8. I Got a Name (3:14)
  9. I’ll Have to Say I Love You in a Song (2:34)
  10. You Don't Mess Around with Jim (3:04)
  11. Lover's Cross (3:04)
  12. One Less Set of Footsteps (2:47)
  13. These Dreams (3:13)
  14. Roller Derby Queen (3:31)

Credits

  • Jim Croce - primary artist, written-by
  • Peter Dino - arranged by [strings]
  • Terence P. Minogue - arranged by [strings]
  • Maury Muehleisen - lead guitar
  • Charles Fox - written-by
  • Norman Gimbel - written-by
  • David Spinozza - lead guitar

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