Playlist
Jim Croce Essentials
Tracks: 1646:59
A promising career cut tragically short.
Updated Oct 30, 2025
Tracks 16
- 1The Definitive Croce2:25
- 2Life & Times2:59
- 3You Don't Mess Around With Jim3:02
- 4The Original Albums…Plus3:14
- 5You Don't Mess Around With Jim3:49
- 6Greatest2:08
- 7The Original Albums…Plus2:34
- 8The Original Albums…Plus2:46
- 9Greatest2:47
- 10The Definitive Croce2:33
- 11I Got a Name3:04
- 12The Original Albums…Plus3:07
- 13It Doesn't Have To Be That Way (His Christmas Love Song) - Single3:28
- 14The Original Albums…Plus3:14
- 15I Got a Name2:48
- 16You Don't Mess Around With Jim2:53
About this playlist
One of the most promising singer/songwriters of the early ‘70s, Jim Croce was also among the most versatile, painting wry character sketches of tough men, writing unsentimental tales of working class life and crafting sensitive love songs. Having already enjoyed a smash single ("Bad, Bad Leroy Brown") and a string of hit albums, Croce died at the age of 30 in a private plane crash. After his death, a song reissued from his debut LP, "Time in a Bottle”, quickly became known as Croce's signature tune.