Jim Croce Biography

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Jim Croce
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Jim Croce was popular during his brief lifetime but it took a tragic plane crash to turn him into a superstar. The man who wrote chart-toppers "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" and "Time In a Bottle" was only 30 when his single-engine plane struck a tree in September 1973 and killed him, just two months after his first No. 1 Billboard pop hit and two months before his second one. Born in Philadelphia in 1943, Croce tinkered with blues and rock and learned to play guitar, along the way gaining an education at Villanova University, where he was a DJ on the college station. In 1969, he was signed to Capitol Records, but the first album, with wife Ingrid (b. 1947), APPROACHING DAY, was an utter failure, forcing him back to Philadelphia and jobs as a truck driver and telephone engineer. But he didn't give up on music, continuing to write songs and eventually sent a demo tape to ABC Records that helped get him a contract. YOU DON'T MESS AROUND WITH JIM broke him in a major way, giving Croce a No. 8 debut on the chart with the title single. His fourth single was "Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown" and it raced to first place in June 1973, followed in October by the No. 10 "I Got a Name," this hit coming posthumously and setting the stage for the Croce cult scene that was to see his name sell millions of records when before his death they were selling 50-80,000. "Time In a Bottle" continued his popularity by becoming the final No. 1 single of 1973 on the Billboard chart. Croce kept in the Top 40 with two more singles, "I'll Have To Say I Love You In a Song," No. 10 in early 1974, and his final single hit, "Workin' At the Carwash Blues," No. 37 in June 1974. Croce continues to sell records in greatest-hits collections and on late night TV. His son, A. J. Croce, a toddler at Jim's death, is a successful blues-oriented singer.

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