Jim Croce died on a plane crash in Louisiana on Sept. 20, 1973.
Croce’s career in the mainstream was short, but he had some memorable hits. For a brief time, he caught time in a bottle. Here are six of them.,” was released in July 1973. This breakout song opens with a raucous piano opening and tells the story of a Chicago man that you had better not cross, because he was “badder than old King Kong” and “meaner than a junkyard dog.
“Time in a Bottle,” while appearing on the 1972 album, was released as a single posthumously and became Croce’s second No. 1 hit.on Nov. 17, 1973, and spent 15 weeks on the charts, reaching No. 1 for two weeks the following month., could be called the older brother of “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.” The theme is similar, only this time the scene is New York City and not the South Side of Chicago.
That is, until Willie McCoy, nicknamed “Slim,” comes to recover money he believes was stolen from him by Jim. And Big Jim’s fate is similar to Leroy Brown’s.Beginning in August 1973, Croce entered the studio to work on songs for a new album.,” was released posthumously on Dec. 1, 1973, and soared to No. 2 on the Billboard albums chart in 1974.
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