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Jerry Reed Sings Jim Croce

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Jerry Reed Sings Jim Croce
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 1980
GenreCountry
Length29:41
LabelRCA Records
Jerry Reed chronology
Live! Featuring Hot Stuff
(1979)
Jerry Reed Sings Jim Croce
(1980)
Dixie Dreams
(1981)
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Jerry Reed Sings Jim Croce is an album by American country singer Jerry Reed, released by RCA Records in 1980. The album is a tribute album for Jim Croce who died in 1973 in a plane crash during the peak of his career. Seven of the ten songs were singles released by Croce. The album peaked at number 56 on the Billboard country chart. The song "Age" (b/w "Workin' at the Car Wash Blues") was the only single released from the album. It peaked at 36 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Jim Croce, except "Age" which was co-written with Ingrid Croce and "I Got a Name", written by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel

No.TitleLength
1."Workin' at the Car Wash Blues"2:17
2."One Less Set of Footsteps"2:43
3."You Don't Mess Around with Jim"3:08
4."I Got a Name"3:20
5."Time in a Bottle"2:54
6."Age"3:47
7."I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song"3:00
8."The Hard Way Every Time"2:25
9."Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"3:04
10."Careful Man"3:04

Chart performance

Chart (1980) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 56

Personnel

  • Jerry Reed - guitar, vocals
  • Kenny Penny - guitar
  • Stan Dacus - engineer
  • Wayne 'The Professor' Harrison - keyboards
  • Paul Cooke - drums