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JIM CROCE
Philadelphia 1967/Cleveland 1972 [no label, 1CD]
Live with Ingrid Croce on the Gene Shay Program, WIOQ 102.5 FM, Philadelphia; 1967 (rebroadcast 1984). Very good FM. Live at the Agora Ballroom, Cleveland, OH; November 15, 1972. Very good soundboard (vinyl rip; slight vinyl noise).
With hits such as I Got A Name, I’ll Have To Say I Love You In A Song, Time In A Bottle and Bad Bad Leroy Brown, one tends to think of Jim Croce more as a singer-songwriter than a folk singer. Back then, with the Jim Croce Trio in 1967, he was closer to Peter, Paul And Mary; and when Croce put Kipling’s Gunga Din poem to music, he recalled Phil Ochs. In 1973, Jim Croce and lead guitarist Maury Muehleisen and five others were killed when their airplane crashed in Louisiana.
Thanks to John G Huber who shared the Philadelphia show at The Traders’ Den.
Thanks to wolfsbane for sharing the Cleveland show at Dime.
wolfsbane noted:
This is a great show that I had on vinyl back in the late ’70s, and fortunately my brother still had a copy. This is a fresh rip from his vinyl bootleg. The name of the boot is “Dead Men Still Tell Tales”.
I had recently seeded this show at a couple of other torrent sites, but this one is a bit different. The previous lineage was “vinyl > Magix > CD > EAC > WAV > FLAC Level 6″. At the urging of some folks, I was able to remove a generation by getting the direct rip from vinyl from my brother for this torrent. I don’t know that there is an appreciable difference in sound quality, but there you have it. A “generation” has now been removed.
Anyway, the sound is really great - my old copy of the bootleg guide “Hot Wacks” calls it “excellent stereo” and I can’t argue. It’s up there with the best of the Jim Croce boots in terms of sound quality and performance, in my opinion. Hope you enjoy this!
Lineage:
Philadelphia: FM > master cassette > cdr > wav > FLAC
Cleveland: vinyl > Magix > WAV > FLAC Level 6
Click on the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (224 kbps). As far as we can ascertain, these tracks have never been officially released on CD.
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Philadelphia 1967
Track 01. Interview #1 0:55 (1.5MB)
Track 02. Darcy Farrow 2:38 (4.4MB)
Track 03. Interview #2 2:26 (4.1MB)
Track 04. Gunga Din 4:00 (6.7MB)
Track 05. Interview #3 1:26 (2.4MB)
Track 06. Coconut Grove 1:34 (2.6MB)
Track 07. Interview #4 1:27 (2.4MB)
Track 08. Bringing Mary Home 3:12 (5.4MB)
Track 09. Interview #5 2:07 (3.6MB)
Track 10. Any Old Time 3:02 (5.1MB)
23 mins
Jim Croce - vocals & guitar
Ingrid Croce - Vocals
Carl (?) - upright bass
Ken (?) - cornet
Jim Croce & Maury Muehleisen (guitar)
Cleveland 1972
Track 11. Operator 3:54 (6.6MB)
Track 12. It Doesn’t Have To Be That Way (story) 0:46 (1.3MB)
Track 13. It Doesn’t Have To Be That Way 2:39 (4.5MB)
Track 14. Roller Derby Queen (story) 5:28 (9.2MB)
Track 15. Roller Derby Queen 2:57 (5.0MB)
Track 16. Box #10 (story) 1:02 (1.7MB)
Track 17. Box #10 2:29 (4.2MB)
Track 18. I’ve Been Framed (story) 0:29 (830k)
Track 19. I’ve Been Framed 2:37 (4.4MB)
Track 20. I’ll Have To Say I Love You In A Song 3:57 (6.6MB)
Track 21. Speedball Tucker (story) 6:37 (11.1MB)
Track 22. Speedball Tucker 4:19 (7.2MB)
Track 23. New York’s Not My Home 3:26 (5.8MB)
Track 24. You Don’t Mess Around With Jim (story) 0:58 (1.6MB)
Track 25. You Don’t Mess Around With Jim 2:52 (4.8MB)
45 mins
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