The Croce cover is part of the first Croce album, "Facets" which has just been re-released on the Shout Factory label. Here's an excerpt from the press release:
"His parents gave Croce $500 as a wedding gift, with one stipulation: It must be used to record an album. Croce's parents figured the task would be so difficult that he would give up on music.
But the plan backfired -- 500 copies of the album quickly sold out among fans who heard Croce play at local bars, and Croce then devoted himself to music.
Now, 31 years after Croce's death in a plane crash, Ingrid Croce and their son -- also a musician -- are re-releasing the album, "Facets," along with a DVD of his performances, an early session recorded at the family's kitchen table, and a collection of photos paired in a hardcover book with the lyrics to "Time In A Bottle" and family reminiscences ... Croce's penchant for working-class tales is displayed in his covers of Gordon Lightfoot's "Steel Rail Blues" and "Coal Tattoo" by Billy Edd Wheeler. His musical arrangement of Rudyard Kipling's poem "Gunga Din" is a melancholy ode to soldiers. And the upbeat "Sun Come Up," written with his brother, Richard, stands out for its pop sensibility."
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