Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)

Name: Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)
Duration: 3 min 48 s

~ Recording by Jim Croce

Appears on releases

#	Title	Length	Track Artist	Release Title	Release Artist	Release Group Type	Country/Date	Label	Catalog#
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1.7	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:45	Jim Croce	You Don’t Mess Around With Jim	Jim Croce	Album	US1972-05	ABC Records (US, 65-79)	ABCX-756
1.7	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:50	Jim Croce	You Don’t Mess Around With Jim (Quadraphonic 8-Track)	Jim Croce	Album	US1972	ABC Records (US, 65-79)	7022-756 H
1.7	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:45	Jim Croce	You Don’t Mess Around With Jim	Jim Croce	Album	GB1972	Vertigo (originally a British rock label; German since 1998)	6360 700
1.2	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:48	Jim Croce	Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	CA1974	ABC Records (US, 65-79)	ABCD-835
1.1	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:50	Jim Croce	His Greatest Songs	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	GB1980	K‐tel (International budget record label)	NE 1059, NE1059
1.1	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:50	Jim Croce	Grandes Exitos	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	ES1981	K‐tel (International budget record label)	18L0223
1.2	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:48	Jim Croce	Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	US1985	Saja Records	92570-2
1.2	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:48	Jim Croce	Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	US1985	21 Records	7 90467-2
1.2	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:48	Jim Croce	Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	CA1985	21 Records	CD 90467
1.2	Operator	3:50	Jim Croce	Time in a Bottle: Jim Croce's Greatest Love Songs	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	US1985	Saja Records	92567-2
1.2	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:49	Jim Croce	The Jim Croce Collection	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	GB1986	Castle Communications (primary imprint of Castle Communications PLC)	CCSCD 154
1.2	Operator	3:50	Jim Croce	Time in a Bottle: Jim Croce's Greatest Love Songs	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	GB1986	Castle Communications (primary imprint of Castle Communications PLC)	CLACD 117
1.2	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:48	Jim Croce	Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	GB1987	Castle Communications (primary imprint of Castle Communications PLC)	CLACD 119
2.2	Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)	3:49	Jim Croce	Songbook	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	DE1988	Commander Classics	80044
1.2	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:48	Jim Croce	Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	SE1989	BR Music (NL-based reissue label)	BRCD 119
1.12	Operator	3:49	Jim Croce	The Legendary Jim Croce	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	NL1989
1.2	Operator	3:49	Jim Croce	The Story of... - Time in a Bottle	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	-1990	BR Music (NL-based reissue label)	BS 8003-2
1.7	Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)	3:49	Jim Croce	Bad, Bad Leroy Brown & Other Favorites	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	CA1991 US1991	CEMA Special Markets (a division of Capitol‐EMI Music, Inc.)	4XL 57445
1.2	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:48	Jim Croce	Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	DE1991	Castle Communications (primary imprint of Castle Communications PLC)	37405034
1.21	Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)	3:50	Jim Croce	The 50th Anniversary Collection	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	US1992-09-22	Saja Records	7 92205-2
1.4	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:48	Jim Croce	AM Gold: Early ’70s Classics (Superhits reissue with two tracks changed)	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US1992	Time-Life, Warner Special Products	AMI-15, OPCD-2683A
1.6	Operator	3:47	Jim Croce	Million Sellers 15: The Seventies	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	NL1992	Disky	MSCD 1915
1.2	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:48	Jim Croce	Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	ZA1992	Saja Records	RTMCD 500
1.4	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:48	Jim Croce	Superhits: Early '70s Classics	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US1992	Time–Life Music	SUD-20
1.21	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:50	Jim Croce	The 50th Anniversary Collection	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	GB1992	Essential! Records (division of Castle Communications)	ESDCD 188
1.12	Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)	3:48	Jim Croce	Love Hurts	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	AU1993-04	Castle Communications (primary imprint of Castle Communications PLC)	MAT CD 275
1.2	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:48	Jim Croce	Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	US1993-11-03	Saja Records	1CD 7755
1.12	Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)	3:48	Jim Croce	Love Hurts	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	XE1993	Castle Communications (primary imprint of Castle Communications PLC)	MAT CD 275
1.12	Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)	3:48	Jim Croce	Love Hurts	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	GB1993	Castle Communications (primary imprint of Castle Communications PLC)	MAT CD 275
1.2	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:49	Jim Croce	Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	CA1993	Unidisc (Canadian disco and dance music label)	AGEK-2020
1.7	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:50	Jim Croce	24 Karat Gold in a Bottle	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	US1994-07-15	DCC Compact Classics, Saja Records	GZS-1060
2.1	Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)	3:48	Jim Croce	All-Time Greatest Hits	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	US1994	CEMA Special Markets (a division of Capitol‐EMI Music, Inc.), Saja Music Co.	15100, S23-17830
1.2	Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)	3:49	Jim Croce	Bad, Bad Leroy Brown & Other Favorites	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	US1994	CEMA Special Markets (a division of Capitol‐EMI Music, Inc.)	S21-57445
2.3	Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)	3:49	Jim Croce	Entertainment Weekly: Lite Gold	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US1994	Sony Music Special Products	A2 25282
1.15	Operator	3:48	Jim Croce	Time in a Bottle: His Greatest Hits	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	XE1994	Woodford Music	WMCD 5703
1.2	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:48	Jim Croce	Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	US1995-09-15	Atlantic (Warner Music imprint), Saja Records	92570-2
1.4	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:48	Jim Croce	AM Gold: Early ’70s Classics (unchanged Superhits reissue)	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US1995	Time–Life Music, Warner Special Products	AM1-15, OPCD-2683A
1.6	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:49	Jim Croce	Back to Back Hits	Jim Croce & Don McLean	Album + Compilation	US1995	CEMA Special Markets (a division of Capitol‐EMI Music, Inc.)	S21-18677
1.6	Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)	3:49	Jim Croce	Jim Croce : The Ultimate Collection : Platinum	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	XW1995	EMI (EMI Records, since 1972)
1.8	Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)	3:46	Jim Croce	The Ralph Lauren Songs Across America Collection	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US1995
1.2	Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)	3:48	Jim Croce	Time in a Bottle (The Complete Collection)	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	BE1995	BR Music (NL-based reissue label)	BX 501-2
1.3	Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)	3:47	Jim Croce	Best of Jim Croce	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	GB1997	Music Club (Demon Music Club, UK)	MCCD 295
1.12	Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)	3:48	Jim Croce	Love Hurts	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	-1997	Kaz Records	PLS CD 199
1.9	Operator (That's Not The Way It Feels)	3:48	Jim Croce	Mellow Rock Hits of the '70s: Sundown	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US1997	Warner Special Products, Rhino (reissue label)	OPCD 1739, R2 72519
2.11	Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)	3:48	Jim Croce	Soft Rock	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	GB1997
1.8	Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)	3:48	Jim Croce	Story Songs	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US1997	K‐tel (International budget record label)	3885-2
1.4	Operator	3:50	Jim Croce	Jim Croce: Bad Bad Leroy Brown: The Definitive Collection	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	GB1998-04-21	Recall 2cd (UK 2cd re-issue label, cat #s SMD CD ###)	SMD CD 102X
2.16	Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)	3:48	Jim Croce	American Pie: Great Tales and Sagas in Song	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US1998	Reader’s Digest Music
1.1	Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)	3:50	Jim Croce	I Got a Name - Best	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	DE1999-08-01	Zounds, Vereinigte Motor-Verlage GmbH & Co. KG (do not use this as an imprint!)	CD 2700020091 B
1.3	Operator	3:50	Jim Croce	The Definitive Collection: Time in a Bottle	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	GB1999-09-13	Essential! Records (division of Castle Communications)	ESACD 781
1.10	Operator	3:49	Jim Croce	Bad, Bad Leroy Brown	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	DE1999	LaserLight Digital	21164
1.18	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:49	Jim Croce	Classic Love Songs	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	GB1999	Pulse (UK budget label)	PLS CD 179
1.2	Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)	3:50	Jim Croce	Time in a Bottle (Jim Croce's Greatest Love Songs)	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	GB1999	Castle Music (subsidiary of Sanctuary Records Group Ltd.)	ESM CD 697
1.2	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:49	Jim Croce	Words And Music	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	US1999	DCC Compact Classics, Saja Records	GZS-1134
1.2	Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)	3:47	Jim Croce	Singers and Songwriters: Early '70s	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US2000	Warner Special Products, Time–Life Music	OPCD-2796A, R812-09
1.2	Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)	3:47	Jim Croce	Singers and Songwriters: Early '70s	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US2000	Warner Special Products, Time–Life Music	OPCD-2796, R812-09
1.3	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:48	Jim Croce	The Singles	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	XE2000	BR Music (NL-based reissue label)	BX 540-2
1.9	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:49	Jim Croce	Singer Songwriter	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	-2001	EMI Plus	724357626125
1.7	Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)	3:44	Jim Croce	Singers & Songwriters, Volume 3	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US2001	Sony Music (global brand, excluding JP, owned by Sony Music Entertainment)
1.21	Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)	3:48	Jim Croce	The Complete Collection	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	NL2001	BR Music (NL-based reissue label), Saja Records	BS 8040-2
1.7	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:51	Jim Croce	VH1 Behind the Music: The Jim Croce Collection	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	US2001	Rhino (reissue label)	R2 74331
1.2	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:49	Jim Croce	Stories & Characters: Best of Jim Croce	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	US2004-01-20	BMG (the former Bertelsmann Music Group, defunct since 2004-08-05; for releases dated 2008 and later, see annotation)	74321529442
1.2	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:50	Jim Croce	Classic Hits (Remastered)	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	US2004-01-27	Rhino (reissue label)	R2 73890
1.7	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:49	Jim Croce	The Way We Used to Be - The Anthology	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	US2004-09-13	Sanctuary Midline	SMETD117
2.2	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:50	Jim Croce	The Essential Collection	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	GB2005	Metro Doubles (UK double-disc reissue/compilation imprint, METRDCD cat prefix)	METRDCD554
1.7	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:49	Jim Croce	You Don’t Mess Around With Jim	Jim Croce	Album	XE2006	Castle Music (subsidiary of Sanctuary Records Group Ltd.)	CMDDD1332
1.3	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:47	Jim Croce	Gold – Soft Rock	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	XW2007-04-03	Hip‐O Records
1.3	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:49	Jim Croce	Gold: Soft Rock	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US2007-04-03	Hip‐O Records	B0008534-02
1.2	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:48	Jim Croce	Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	US2007-10-29	Saja Records	7 90467-2
1.7	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:49	Jim Croce	You Don’t Mess Around With Jim	Jim Croce	Album	US2008-09-30	R2M Music (BMI)	R2-514257
1.7	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:49	Jim Croce	You Don’t Mess Around With Jim	Jim Croce	Album	US2008-09-30	Rhino (reissue label)
1.2	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:47	Jim Croce	Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	US2009-08-04	Rhino (reissue label)
1.2	Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)	3:49	Jim Croce	Lover's Cross	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	US2009	Woodstock Tapes
2.11	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:46	Jim Croce	Singers & Songwriters: Troubadours	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US2010	Time-Life	25747-D
1.7	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:50	Jim Croce	You Don’t Mess Around with Jim / Life and Times / I Got a Name	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	GB2011-07-25	Edsel Records	EDSD2116
2.9	Operator (That's Not The Way It Feels)	3:49	Jim Croce	Greatest Ever! Country Rock	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	-2013-02-18	Union Square Music	GTSTCD074
1.1	Operator	3:49	Jim Croce	Transparent, Volume 1	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US2014-12-09	Amazon Content Services (label for Amazon.com related ventures via Amazon Publishing such as Amazon Studios, Inc.)
1.2	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:46	Jim Croce	The Definitive Croce	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	GB2015-05-25	Music Club Deluxe	MCDLX207
4.7	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:49	Jim Croce	The Studio Album Collection	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	GB2015	Edsel Records	CROCEBOX01
1.2	Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)	3:49	Jim Croce	An Introduction to Jim Croce	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	US2019-03-29	Rhino (reissue label)	R2-587460
1.2	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:48	Jim Croce	Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	XE2021-02-12 US2021-02-12	BMG (imprint of BMG Rights Management, 2008-present)	538630432
1.7	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:49	Jim Croce	You Don't Mess Around With Jim (50th Anniversary Edition)	Jim Croce	Album	US2022-10-07
2.2	Operator	3:48	Jim Croce	Easy ’70s	Various Artists	Album + Compilation
1.2	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:47	Jim Croce	Greatest Hits	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	FR-	Commander	CD 99010
1.2	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:47	Jim Croce	Greatest Hits	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation
1.2	Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)	3:49	Jim Croce	Lover's Cross	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation		Woodstock Tapes
1.3	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:46	Jim Croce	Reflections	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation
5.4	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:46	Jim Croce	Rock & Romance Collection	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US-	Time-Life Records (Time-Life Music subsidiary)
1.5	Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)	3:48	Jim Croce	Signature Collection of Communication Classics	Various Artists	Album + Compilation
1.6	Operator (That's Not the Way If Feels)	3:47	Jim Croce	Simple Living 2	Various Artists	Album + Compilation
1.2	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:50	Jim Croce	The Very Best Of	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation
1.3	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:47	Jim Croce	Time in a Bottle - All Time Favorites by Jim Croce	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	US-	Saja Records
Promotion
1.1	Operator	3:49	Jim Croce	Ford Dial Your Number 06 0720	Various Artists		NL1995		RE 060720
1.1	Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)	3:50	Jim Croce	Jim Croce	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	CA2008	EMI Music Publishing (do not use as a release label!)
(unknown)
1.7	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:45	Jim Croce	You Don’t Mess Around With Jim	Jim Croce	Album	US1982	Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab	MFSL 1-079
1.2	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:49	Jim Croce	Rolling Stone: The Timeless Stories of the ’70s — Singer/Songwriter	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US2007	Compass Productions (budget compilations)	OPCD-8192
1.6	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)	3:49	Jim Croce	The Very Best of Jim Croce	Jim Croce	Album + Compilation	US-	The Very Best of Jim Croce	88985482632

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producer:	Terry Cashman Tommy West
vocals:	Jim Croce (on 1971-10-11)

phonographic copyright (℗) by:	R2M Music (BMI) (in 1972)

recorded at:	The Hit Factory in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States (on 1971-10-11)

recording of:	Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels) (on 1971-10-11)

Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)

lyricist and composer:	Jim Croce

publisher:	DenJac Music Company MCA Music (not for release label use! this is a music publisher, ASCAP-affiliated)

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