Have You Heard Jim Croce Live

Jim Croce | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 24, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Shout Factory
• ASIN: B000BTFZLY
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #240,314 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. You Don't Mess Around With Jim

2. Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)

3. Introduction to Roller Derby Queen

4. Roller Derby Queen

5. One Less Set of Footsteps

6. Next Time, This Time

7. Introduction to Speedball Tucker

8. Speedball Tucker

9. Lover's Cross

10. Introduction to Workin' at the Car Wash Blues

11. Workin' at the Car Wash Blues

12. Introduction to Bad, Bad Leroy Brown

13. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown

14. New York's Not My Home

15. The Hard Way Every Time

16. Introduction to Rapid Roy

17. Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy)

18. These Dreams

19. Hard Time Losin' Man

Editorial Reviews

Classic Live Performances on CD for the First Time!

In 2003, Shout! Factory released the first and only DVD of Jim Croce's legendary live television performances, pleasing fans and critics alike. Now, for the first time ever, the music from those live television performances is available on CD, on an album also entitled Have You Heard Jim Croce Live.

Featuring Croce and his collaborator, Maury Muehliesen, performing "Unplugged"-style, the album contains live versions of such classics as "You Don't Mess Around With Jim," "Operator (That's Not The Way It Feels)," "Bad, Bad LeRoy Brown," and others, taken from such hit music shows as "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert," "The Old Grey Whistle Test," "Rollin' on the River," and others.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Jim Croce Live, The Most Creative Writer..., June 18, 2010

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R. Webb "minstrel man" (u.s.a.) - See all my reviews
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If you haven't heard Jim Croce live, now's the time. The great singer/songwriter and his partner guitarist Maury Muehleisen take it to the limit with the songs that bring back all your photographs and memories, all acoustic with no orchestration. The set starts with two of my favorites, "You Don't Mess Around With Jim", "Operator (that's not the way it feels)". Croce then moves on to tell the stories of how some of his written songs actually came to be. The ideas were taken from real live people, real characters, "Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown", "Roller Derby Queen", "Speedball Tucker" is about a truck driver who has no trouble completing a destination at any distance, with a little help from those poppin' "west coast turn arounds", of course Jim Croce was a truck driver himself before his brief success in the music field. Listening to Jim Croce, no other songwriter could project so much reality of life, the lyrics soak deep down in your soul, always leaving a good feeling with a positive outlook, Croce's songs were that good, with a natural singing voice to match. Croce's career was cut way to short, a music man who still had alot to say. Take the opportunity to listen to this live recording, and check out "The Final Tour" recording, the audio on both compilations are excellent. Remember Jim Croce.

5.0 out of 5 stars Jim at his best., May 18, 2010

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Michael Carnevale (Chepachet, RI) - See all my reviews
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You may not know every song, however, if you are a Croce fan, you will truly enjoy this CD.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Sound - too soon gone, August 3, 2008

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Vette Man "Wild Bill" (Clifton Park, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Have You Heard Jim Croce Live (Audio CD)

Before his tragic accident, Jim Croce was on his way to becoming one of the Greatest Balladeers we have had. This CD captures some of Jim's best songs and stories and provides a glimpse of the man behind the stories. If you did not get a chance to see him in a live concert, you want to get this CD and the DVD of the same name. They our both great!