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According to Wikipedia, Jim Croce spent the 1960s as a struggling musician. He finally hit it big in 1972, but died in a 1973 plane crash while on tour. Some of his songs became hits after his death. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Croce
I used to have a tape of Jim Croce's "Photographs and Memories: His Greatest Hits", a compilation released after his death. Some of the ballads on it are plaintive, as if they were written by someone unhappy.
I don't remember when Croce was alive, but his songs mean a lot to me. They are part of my life's soundtrack. When I hear one, I think of my childhood in the early 1970s.
By the time "You Don't Mess Around With Jim" came out in the spring of 1972, I was buying less and less 45's but I liked the tune-bought it at my local Woolworths store. I took a chance on his second lp, called Life And Times, and was pleasantly surprised. When I went to my local Sam Goodys/Musicland store to buy that lp, I remember the guy who took my money said, "you only bought the 45 and didn't buy the lp?" He was referring to the above single. I said, well, I'll take a chance on it. I actually bought that lp on 8 track as I was headed to work that afternoon. I was surprised to hear these great songs-among them was "Operator", "Time In A Bottle" and "One Less set Of Footsteps".
Later in 1973 ABC did release "Operator' as a single and it went right up the charts. It seems like just after that that he died in that plane crash. Sad.
He didn't start off well as a musician; his first lp on Capitol (Capitol SMAS 310) was simply called "Jim and Ingrid Croce." Nothing become of it other than the lp's being pressed eventually went to the cut out bins of your local discount store. But he got that second chance through ABC Records and made the most of it.
Three months after he died ABC released the song off his 1972 lp as a single--"I've Got A Name." Sadly Croce will be thought of as a guy who sold the heck out of his catalog after he died. But with the time that he DID have in those three years with ABC Records he did not waste it. Like a lot of singer/songwriters, and the 1970's decades certainly is known as "the singer songwriter decade", he made his mark quickly-and then sadly left this earth.
I remember when he died in the plane crash. My parents would play his music in their store. He was a great talent. When he died he had just hit the big time.
I used to have a tape of Jim Croce's "Photographs and Memories: His Greatest Hits", a compilation released after his death. Some of the ballads on it are plaintive, as if they were written by someone unhappy.
I don't remember when Croce was alive, but his songs mean a lot to me. They are part of my life's soundtrack. When I hear one, I think of my childhood in the early 1970s.
I don't remember him - I was four years old when he died.
What I do remember is a guy I used to know. We went thru AIT together at the old Fort McClellan in Alabama in 1989. He was a gregarious headbanger, always wailing some AC/DC song while playing air guitar... or crooning Time in a Bottle or something else by Croce.
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